Cradling a video camera in his hands, he sidles up to a curvy brunet and fumbles for a pick-up line. Gazing into the lens, the woman seems flustered at first, then amused, then -- lo and behold -- flattered. She follows him to a hotel room, and within minutes she is standing on a coffee table, peeling off her dress. A man knocks on the door and eventually there is a whole lot of naked writhing on a white couch.

Stagliano shoots. Stagliano scores.

Or so it seems. The interlude looks like the world's raunchiest home video, but it's a scene from "Buttman Confidential," one of the year's bestselling skin flicks. The woman, it turns out, is a Hungarian porn starlet, earning $1,100 for her troubles. And though Stagliano is posing as a bold tourist with a powerful zoom lens, this one-time economics student and self-described pervert is something else entirely. He is the man who almost single-handedly revolutionized the $5 billion-a-year pornographic movie market.

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