iPod Why all the porn talk?

[homerjward]

did anyone watch the tonight show last night? they were making fun of porn on the ipod. he said "and now here's a sample of an adult video on an ipod" and it showed this tiny, tiny video in the center of a black screen and the entire audience started laughing

 

[efoto]

i used to work in a porn store, owned by a former production company owner...12 billion is EASY...I don't thinnk you people have any idea of the profits that porn producers make. Even at the retail level the products are marked up 1000% or more (not a typo) and they still FLY off the shelves

Given the right girl, I'd shop there (have in the past). I think a lot of people are too uptight about sex, other's too loose ( ), but I see nothing wrong with the sex industry (including porn) as long as it's legitimate and legal. If adults want to buy videos, fine. My only issue is with child-pornography and the abuse of under-developed minds by force....that's just gross.

Otherwise, to each his or her own toy....if that's your thing. Pop in a vid, whatever. Have fun

 

[wordmunger]

Had to revive this thread because I finally found the article which debunks the $12 billion figure.

Here are some key quotes:

Even if reliable numbers are hard to come by, it would stand to reason that if porn was so lucrative, the industry would be crawling with rich people. Anecdotally, at least, that's not the case.

"They are not multi-zillionaires," said legendary 48-year-old actor Ron Jeremy. The owners of video companies like VCA, Leisure Time and Vivid might make seven figures, and a handful of Internet-porn queens might make a couple hundred thousand dollars a year, but the rest of the pack is merely comfortable, he said. "Maybe some girls own their own home, or bought condos and live off the rent money. Maybe their mortgage is over, maybe they got a nice car."

The idea that pornography is a $10 billion business is often credited to a study by Forrester Research. This figure gets repeated over and over. The only problem is that there is no such study," wrote Ackman, a lawyer-turned-journalist who had never previously covered porn. "In 1998, Forrester did publish a report on the online 'adult content' industry, which it pegged at $750 million to $1 billion in annual revenue. The $10 billion aggregate figure was unsourced and mentioned in passing."

Obtaining accurate figures is the number-one problem journalists say they have when reporting on the adult industry.

"Like other industries that are dominated by smaller mom-and-pop shops or privately owned companies, you don't have the public disclosure as you do in the ... technology world" says the L.A. Times' Huffstutter in a telephone interview. "Numbers and figures are very hard to acquire in this industry. I've only been on the beat for about seven weeks, so I'm still trying to figure out how we're going to be getting larger industry trend numbers."

Lewis Perdue of WSJ.com found a way around the usual roadblocks by focusing instead on the Web hosting industry's reliance on adult sites, which he estimates (in a very detailed column March 21) in the hundreds of millions of dollars, if not the low billions.

 

[Lord Blackadder]

So, in other words, the porn industry makes a ton of money - just not as much as their hugely inflated claim suggests...

 

[Makosuke]

Memo: Don't touch other people's iPod videos! EVER! Specially the "white" ones!!!

Funniest thing I've read in days.

And since I'm posting anyway:

I don't see iPorn as that interesting (particularly given how easy transcoding is), but I could see pornographers as being an early adopter in "iPod ready" video for the lazy. Besides, h.264 compression is better than the alternatives, and since iPod frame size is acceptable for computer porn anyway, it's just a good excuse to move away from other formats and save bandwidth for them while marketing it as "new".

The only real market I personally see is those in the same category as "Playboy under the mattress" porn-watchers; anyone with a modicum of privacy and a TV or computer really shouldn't need one at all, but if you're hiding from your kids *and* your wife (why?), or you're a college student in a dorm, it could be an advantage.

And, of course, this is where lazy parents start getting all panicky about younger kids, since instead of having to sit in front of a computer (which, if you're a decent parent, you're monitoring to at least some degree) or the family TV, they can sneak it off to wherever. No different from stuffing a dirty magazine in your bookbag, really, but a bit higher tech.

 

[spencecb]

When I sell my 3G iPod and buy one of the new video iPods, the first thing I am going to do is load porn on it...hello!!! that has to be the best feature of the new iPod...all those times I don't take my computer home to my parents house, when I'm on campus, etc. etc... yay porn!

 

[asherman13]

Is Belkin going to start selling the iVibrator?.

or something like that: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000727071936/

sorry; couldn't resist