I'm not so sure, myself - I've used Irfanview to do scree-caps of even the most impossible graphics inconsistencies. I know a bit about the porn sites because I once lent freelance technical work towards setting quite a few of them up (it pays real well, too - getting a $10k check for two weeks worth of worth of work is rather nice, to say the least.) Point is, if you think it would be tough to secure, say, a bank's online checking component, then you ain't seen tough yet. the bank only has to worry about one axis of threat. OTOH, there are zillions of horny little script kiddies and competent crackers just dying to post a backdoor into your site (and pass it around), to leech your bandwidth (for their own "l33t pr0n s1t3"), or just to steal all the images that your sysop paid thousands upon thousands of dollars in royalties for. There is also that other matter of crackers wanting all those customer credit card numbers you have on file, too... Not that most folks would pity a porn site sysop... there's a huge potential in cash to be made. OTOH, 90% of those starting such a site will go bankrupt in their first six months... mostly due to some kiddie breaking in to their site and gutting it empty. OTOH, when you consider that a good porn site sysop makes as much per annum as the CIO of a Fortune 500 company, and that the largest sites have a P/E ratio that would put many Fortune 500 companies to shame, you can see why there's no shortage of people wanting to get a piece of it. A medium sized site will have roughly 5,000 - 15,000 active customers, each paying roughly $20.00 or so per month... bandwidth is a mother, costing the most at around $8.00 per customer per month. Security staff, measures and software eats second place, followed by royalties (unless you do your own photoshoots, in which case you have to pay the models, the photographer, and a lawyer to keep proof of age and other legal paperwork on file for you. It's much cheaper to buy your photosets, even if you don't get exclusivity. Buying 'em instead of shooting 'em also saves you from criminal liability if one of those models do turn out to be underaged, even if she/he gave you a fake ID.) Quite frankly, I'd love to get back into being an admin at a porn site... but although the pay is fantastic, the employment isn't exactly steady unless you work at one of the larger sites. My wife would also protest pretty vehemently as well, money be damned (I was still single back then). /P