P2P is killing the porn star !
p2pnet news view Games | Freedom | P2P:- Hollywood isn’t the only (alleged) casualty of P2P.
In 1998, Forrester Research published a report on the online “adult content” industry which speculated on an industry-wide aggregate figure of $8-10 billion
The prefix porno- is derived from the Greek term for a prostitute; hence, it may be said that pornography is as old as the “world’s oldest profession”.
A long held belief has it that sex drives technology and its depiction in various media formats has been a common tool in expressing resistance against authority. Be it Religious, legislative, societal norms, or well meaning parents.
Sculptures (1) and paintings from early cave man times often depicted acts of copulation and male and female genitalia, and with the advent of writing early scribes adorned their works with hand coloured caricatures that were often voluptuous and sometimes incongruously presented, eg, in The Bible. (2)
The invention of the Gutenberg Press in 1440 made books cheaper and this created a market for the masses which elicited a predictable response from the Church: Pope Paul IV in 1563 listed erotic books in the Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of church prohibited literature.
Then along came the photograph, expanding on naked caricatures and replacing them with young ladies in risqué poses, precipitating the first “anti-porn Legislation.
The Stereograph, The Radio, The Television, VCRs, DVDs and now the Internet were all widely adopted initially because they allowed the masses at home to view or listen or listen and view content ‘PRIVATELY’ in their own home.
There’s evidence that the pornography industry has been solicited by the standards authorities and manufacturers of new forms of media for their views, opinions and suggestions about proposed formats. (3)
In 1999 I was an ISP on two continents and I wrote an email about the content of pornography that was transiting the internet at two locations in the US. Mae East and Mae West.
My claim derived from packet sniffing the peering backbone was that there was around 87% of content that either was or could be pornography.
It appeared to me the availability of pornographic images since 1979 on BBS, and now multi-media content on the Internet, was opening flood gates that I as a former ISP watched with amazement as the downloading of porn eroded my profit margins rapidly.
But then Napster was born and the porn web pages started to be re-organised by overly capable 15-year-olds from web pages for their mates to Napster listed resources.
Because Geko (my ISP) was the global host to the world’s biggest Quake game, my concentration was focused on adding more bandwidth for game players than worrying about the occasional user that downloaded porn.
But by 2000 I’d started to notice a drop-off effect. Traffic was changing. Music files appeared to overtake Porn as the bandwidth hog.
Socially speaking, that was probably a good thing. However, my bandwidth was still being eroded….
Fast Forward to January, 2009: Sydney, a house in the suburbs –
A quick poll of the milleniumiteiv (4) members of the household (both of them) confirmed 3D action based games were a far higher priority in the minds of the male population of the house than naked forms gyrating in obviously posed and uncomfortable positions.
This was evident in the unanimous requirement that I install 802.11n equipment to replace the 802.11g that just didn’t cut it with the PS2 (the 18yo) and PS3 (the 22yo) interaction.
It would appear today’s youth want access to entertainment, not porn.
- Games.
- Movies.
- And Youtube.
Empirical data from multiple cited sources (5) suggest the high availability of pornography has made its acquisition a much lower priority for milleniumites.
According to Ipoque, 22% of Internet users generate 76% of all internet traffic via Bit Torrent or emule downloading 38% movies, 25% Games 14% TV shows 9% music and only 1% porn.
In summary, it would appear demographically, that net denizens of at least three years vintage and those of legal adulthood, move away from Porn as a primary interest and start using P2P for entertainment.
Thank you Hollywood, the Music Industry and Microsoft. It seems our little-uns are growing up without us having to look over their shoulders constantly, except perhaps to ensure theyre not exceeding their monthly download bandwidth limitations.
Do you have any idea of how much bandwidth P2P – err, I mean multi-player games use ?
References
1 The Venus of Willendorf figurine, found in Austria, dates to as early as 24,000 B.C.
2 Pornography: DVD: The Secret History Of Civilisation Koch Vision // 1999 // 312 Minutes // Not Rated
Reviewed by Appellate Judge Mike Pinsky // March 20th, 2006
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/pornsecrethistory.php
3 Pornography customers first to buy DVD technology Reuters Posted online: Monday, January 10, 2005 at 0150 hours IST http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=40548
4 Born between 1982 and 2000, the Milleniumites were the first generation that grew up with the Internet that commenced global commercialization in 1994 just as the first milleniumites were reaching 12 years of age.
5 Dolf Zillmann, Influence of unrestrained access to erotica on adolescents’ and young adults’ dispositions toward sexuality, Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume 27, Issue 2, Supplement 1, August 2000, Pages 41-44, ISSN 1054-139X, DOI: 10.1016/S1054-139X(00)00137-3. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T80-40RTM34-8/2/d8568349f3984dbaa02fbfdd7a5f1a09)
Tom Koltai – p2pnet
[Koltai says he's an, "old fart (50 yo) who's an economist in Sydney Australia. He's been online for 26 years, has run several ISPs and, "lobbied governments in four countries to prevent Internet restrictive usage legislation from being enacted". He says he's a strong believer in P2P, "as being a technological requirement to fully exploit the convergence of telephony with computers and remove the last barriers to human communication and interaction".]
January , 2009
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January 16th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Thats What I told them!