Alex Barker

Now, back then in 2007, this was a big thing.

Hardcore studios like Digital Playground shoot graphic sex.

But much like the old Hollywood studio system, they had contract stars.

The performers were literally paid not to work for anybody else.

The fact this happened at all was a sign of the times.

The internet was bringing porn into millions of homes, but it was mainly images or grainy video.

So consumers still wanted the studio stuff.

The online business coexisted with the old industry.

Porn DVDs were selling by the truckload.

Studios were producing lots of features and still largely calling the shots.

Everyone was busy and working hard, but Stoyer's work?

That took place in her physical body.

It's his infamous deeds that bring infamy to his name.

Yes!

It was called Stoyer Kills the Bear, an early piece of viral porn that some random person had ripped from a DVD and posted on a tube site.

That film was pirated, but Stoyer says, at that point, the publicity was kind of welcome.

ManWin owned free tube sites like Pornhub.

It had bought Digital Playground, a deal compared to Disney buying Pixar.

It even snapped up digital rights to Playboy, and everyone knows that brand.

Stoya, the independently-minded artist, was now working for a porn conglomerate.