In the old days, pornography was delivered as printed matter wrapped up in plain brown paper. Now it can come to you over the internet, via a set-top box with an innocuous-looking generic black chassis.

Amid the silicone and cellulite of the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, held in parallel with the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, I found FyreTV, which is like an ethernet-connected cable box... for porn.

I was skeptical.  Why would anyone pay ten bucks a month and use dedicated hardware for something that's available for free over the internet?  FyreTV made a good case for their product though, and it goes something like this.

The device is an innocuous looking little black box (it ships without the sticker visible in the picture).

"The only way someone would know what this is if they owned one themselves," said FyreTV founder and CEO Estefano Isaias.