The trending person, Raj Kundra who is over the whole social media, was basically involved in scandals related to the production and streaming of porn films. He is one of the richest British-Asian businessmen in the world and was ranked as 198th richest person in 2004. This year his net worth is INR 2800 crore, the salary he owns from his business is INR 700 crore per year, investments are INR 50 to 80 crore per investment, and his personal investments are more than INR 50 crore. Talking of his cars, he owns luxury cars beginning from Mercedes to Lamborghini, which worth more than INR 10 crore. He owns several houses, out of which 4 are in places such as London, Burj Khalifa’s 13th floor, Mumbai, and an apartment in Noida.
Though he had so much of earnings and luxuries, what made him be a part of the porn industry?
Porn industry is worth $100 billion globally, it is bigger than the biggest corporations across the world. Around 11,000 hard-core porn movies are shot annually at the global hub for porn - California's infamous San Fernando Valley, where porn as we know it was born.
Porn is the only industry that would never stop, the money is something that never stops coming and grows with time. The interest of people in porn is considered to be immoral, addictive, and noxious, which makes people chose to invest in this industry. Except for the money and interest of people, another thing that causes people to enter the porn industry is that they have daddy issues. They enter this industry because they think that they have something to work out. There are a few who love having sex so get involved in this industry and a few think that this industry has changed them for the better, is a stress-free atmosphere and also is a break from their regular schedule, on joining this industry they don’t have to think of their finances.
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But it’s free! How do they earn?
Though too many it seems that porn is free and is widely available but to download, see the ‘premium content’, no ads, HD content, online Live cam streaming, and so on the users have to pay. Only the paid users get access to email or physical addresses. The porn industries gain money by providing premium access to the ‘favorite porn star’, they offer an experience of being with their favorite star, provide personalized sex toys, adult chats, and many more.
These options costs in million and these sites are smart, they provide wide payment options ranging from daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and even annually. They offer discounts, these subscriptions cost anywhere from $1-15 a day. While it might be too much for you for a mini bathroom session, there are millions who sign up for it. They also get paid by the traffic on their sites; the biggest porn site gets 4.4 billion views and 350 million unique visits.
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Pornography in India:
The selling and distribution of porn websites are illegal in India under section 292. Selling these materials to any person under 20 years old is illegal under section 293 and IT Act-67 B. Child Pornography is illegal and prohibited across the country under section 67B of ITA, 2000. In 2015, porn websites were blocked by the Supreme Court of India. The ban from the government came after a lawyer filed a petition in the Supreme Court arguing that online pornography encourages sex crimes and rapes.
Though pornography is illegal in India, still he created pornographic films and publishing the films through an app, which makes him guilty of what he did as the Mumbai police said that he is the “key conspirator” of the case.