Getting paid to watch gay porn

One day, around 2005, I got a phone call from a friend and colleague, excitedly telling me: “Come to my office! You’ll never believe what I’m doing!”

His office was dark and the shades drawn. I knocked and he opened the door slowly, motioning me in. He was the type of person to laugh a lot and he was already laughing. I heard grunting and moaning.

He pointed to the main screen in his office but was already watching what appeared to be a hard core gay porn movie. Still laughing, my friend said “I’m getting paid to watch this!”

Why was my obvious question. So, Apple used to have a product called DVD Studio Pro, which, as you can guess, was for producing DVDs. It turns out that a little know secret of this product was that it was extremely popular in the porn industry that was still heavily DVD-based at that time.

One of the biggest users of the product had encountered a bug where the movie that was produced has a very small skip in it that they believed was a fault in Apple’s product.

This D…