That's the stereotype Silicon Valley embraces. Or, if we've come to realize that the pinkie-ring caricature makes absolutely no sense in the age of the Internet, we see them as ruthlessly clever businesspeople with a sixth sense for where the big money lies. We picture these people as sleazy Southern Californians wearing pinkie rings and polyester. In the popular imagination, the eternal trope is that the porn industry drives the adoption of new technology that it accounts for some astronomically large portion of all Internet traffic and, yes, that it generates equally enormous sums of money for all the faceless people who run its operations. 'The thing about the adult industry today is that.