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Adult Content Revenue To Pay For UK 3G Licenses
Makarand writes "According to this
article in The Guardian mobile phone companies in the UK
are turning to soft porn in a bid to recoup the billions they have splashed
out on third generation licences.
If the industry can persuade regulators that they can come up with a
fool-proof way of registering phones that are owned by those who are 18 and above
it will clear the way for a major new revenue stream using adult content.
Dedicated teams at companies using 3G licenses are already looking into
making money from adult content."
*Insert MIDI of swanky-sounding porno synth music here*
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So with one hand I hold my phone, and the other I, er, um, "use" the porn - then what hand do I use to drive the car with?
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
And I want to be looking at porn on a black and white 80x80 pixel screen why?
I asked for a refund - and got my monkey back.
now the very existance of 3G is supported by thumbnails of the nude.
Naaah, that'll never catch on ...
/Styx
Well, if you have a Hands Free (headset) device, you have a free hand for whatever else you might need it for. Forward thinking!
I hope this does not mean that I will get sent SMS texts offering to "increase my penis size" like the kind that litter my email inbox now.
;)
The phrase "is that a phone in you pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?" will never be the same.
Arc
I won't buy a computerized car until i can get Jenna Jameson on my dash at 80Mph, it will be the sign that it has been endorsed and works properly.
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
...new meaning to the term "Phone Sex".
Oh, wait...
3G? I'm mostly used to 36DD.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
... if only we could all learn to masturbate to our imaginations.
who the hell would pay money for soft porn?
Selling software wont make you money, selling a service will.
...about hitting that speakerphone key
Next time a cell phone distracts you in a theater you might not have a problem with it!
Specialy if your force to watch "Maid in New York" or something by you girlfriend|wife.
They could just use the same age verification function used for 900 numbers:
if (hasCreditCard)
{
ConnectHottie();
}
I tell you it's hardcore porn that's going to land the first men on Mars, establish contact with another species, and renew the democratic system.
Soft porn can only do so much, but it's hardcore that will take us into the next century!
but do I really want/need the ability to access gigabytes of it no matter where I travel? What happened to the power of imagination. When I take a trip longer than three nights, I'll throw a pr0n0 mag in my suitcase. For shorter trips I just visualize while spanking the monkey.
sHi
Why bother checking if the user is 18 or older?
Kids shouldn't be using mobile phones.
"When I was your age, the only phone we could use was 2 tin cans and a string between them!"
How much do you want to bet that this shows up in America before long? *shakes head* Unbelievable. How unfortunate it is that today, everything seems to be about what "looks good" and what "feels good" instead of what's RIGHT. Oh, how quickly we forget the man who died on the cross in order to preserve the American way of life. If He were alive today, do you think he would make the same sacrifice again, given how rapidly our culture has fallen into the sewer?
Thank God they haven't turned to spam yet.
wait a second ... oh, never mind
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Pr0n... is there anything it can't do?
Trolling is a art,
Can you hear me now? You can, okay, what are you wearing?
I got PPV porn channels available on my TV
Phone sex hotlines
Magazines in every 7-11/gas station/mens rooms.
Adult video stores *everywhere* (around here there's a ton just called 'discount video outlets', with a handful of old regular VHS tapes and enormous 'adult' rooms)
The internet
Now 3G wireless phones
How long until MS's new watches have porn being broadcast straight to your wrist?
Can the porn market ever reach full saturation? Has anyone ever said "y'know what? I think I have enough porn already"?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
They have these things now about the size of an mp3 player, so you can just get what you take off kazaa onto those without having to pay :P And I think most people who look at pr0n are ages 14-17, so they might not make much money, and I don't think they are going to bother asking their 18+ year old friends to buy cell phone pr0n for them.
... support open source by taking 10% of your porn budget and donate it to the open source project of your choice.
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" -- Homer Simpson
Porn drove the adoption of the VCR.
Porn drove the mass adoption of the internet for anything other than e-mail - I mean, who had the first e-commerce sites? It wasn't LL Bean.
Porn drove turnkey IVR systems that are now used extensively in a lot of other industries. There'd be no college registration by phone if there wasn't phone sex.
Porn makes the world go 'round.
who pays for porn these days?
And why do we need more porn. there seems to be enough of it out there
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
Softcore pr0n, on a 2 inch by 1 inch screen.
LOL.
easiest way to ensure content goes to adults owning phones? sell the phones to adults. why does a 13 yr old need a cel phone? or a credit card for that matter? very few kids have the means to be paying for this kind of thing, and the parents are gonna get saddled with the bills. kids should not be pushed into growing up before they are ready.
oh yeah. get em in debt early and keep em there.
Pete Townsend is already researching a book on this subject.
brings a whole new meaning to the term 'porn to go'...
If this comes here, does it mean I'll be getting all that porn spam on my phone? Maybe it would be better to convince them I'm under 18.
Would under 13 make it illegal for them to send any spam?
Jason
ProfQuotes
You're kidding, right?
This rant is either a really good joke, or a really scary post by someone who scares even me...
I sure hope you're kidding.
I've been on a couple of dates with a rather enchanting negress but nothing came of it. So far it's been mainly white women and a couple of nice oriental ladies. No (native) Indians though, they're animals.
Yeah, after seeing those naked pictures of your mom.
Because the only thing stronger than the lust to watch more porn is the desire to download -stuff- and fill hard drives. Mixing the two is just a winning combinations.
80gb microdrives in a mobile. You heard it here first
Just think: SLASHPR0N! All the porn that geeks want, all the time. For a nominal monthly fee, /. readers can get their grubby little mits on the latest geek erotica from the likes of Marina Sirtis, Kate Mulgrew, Sarah Michelle Gellar and any other "geek chic chicks" that nerds fancy from Sci-Fi and Fantasy shows/movies/etc.
And ladies, don't think I forgot you! There will be a whole section devoted to "Cowboy Perversions" featuring CowboyNeal, CmdrTaco's "I'm married now, I don't get laid anymore, so I need porn to keep me happy" weekly rants, and the "Hardcore Nerd Beach Weekend" starring all of your favorite Slashdot authors, live in streaming RealMedia from the newest hit pr0n site on the web, http://slashpr0n.org(asm)...
Blog Prophyts - Right On, Man
Are 3G phones crippled so that people can't go here and choose a wide variety of vendors for their "amusement"? Will the telcos really prevent a 3G phone from being able to access information not signed to a deal on their network? I know I won't buy a technology that is hampered like that (I can't see /. paying to allow Irish 3G users to access their site from their phone!). So why would porn companies be willing to pay 10s of billions just to give people easier access to their porn? Are the phone operators worried that a "common carrier" defense wouldn't stand up if they were found to have allowed a 15 year old to access "inappropriate" material via their phone?
Never underestimate the dark side of the Source
>The Ten Commandments tell us, "Thou shalt not rape!"
Hum.. which of these ten was it?
1. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
2. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,"
3. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain;"
4. "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy."
5. "Honor thy father and thy mother:"
6. "Thou shalt not kill."
7. "Thou shalt not commit adultery"
8. "Thou shalt not steal."
9. "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
10. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, nor anything that is thy neighbor's."
To Whom It May Concern,
I'd like to be get in on your adult advertising service as a beta tester. Please let me know when you start sending images of young girls.
Thank you,
Pete Townsend
Mark this date on the calender, folks. An Anonymous Coward had something (somewhat) positive to say for once!
Suddenly everyone starts looking for jobs in UK mobile telcos.....
What a job - working out how to get porn from the internet, onto mobiles.
Hell, you might need to commission official research into the most "effective" types of porn... and that could take months. Years even, if properly abused...
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Taco's fave corporate rock star tried that and now he is going to the slammer.
Porn wants to be free. Get a girlfriend.
--sdem
Now I have to worry about if the guy behind me on the bus isn't actually kicking the back of my seat...
..There's a-dooin's a-transpirin'
Butters: You get a call, they cut you off. You make a call, they cut you off. What's the point?
Leo: You know what they're doin', kid? They fuck you with cell phones! That's what it is! They're fucking you with the cell phones! They love it when you get cut off! You know why, huh? You know why? Cuz when you call back - which they know you're gonna do - they charge you for that fucking first minute again at that high rate!
"Afghanistan! I don't know nobody in Afghanistan! I don't know what fucking Afghanistan looks like, and even if I did, I would not talk to their Afghan-ass for three hours! I won't talk to my daddy for three hours!"
I guess this gives new meaning to "they fuck you with the cell phones"
Selling software wont make you money, selling a service will.
--gal
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If the industry can persuade regulators that they can come up with a fool-proof way of registering phones that are owned by those who are 18 and above...
Another fool-proof way. We all know how good they work! If you excuse me now, I have to go get some drinks for the kid next door.
bash$
Not that im complaining or anything, but alot of kids have contracts in their parents name, i know i do, im 17 im not old enough to have a direct debit account, and if the suppliers of "quality goods" use the owner information wont it just come up as my dad and allow me to use it, seriously not complaining! anyway my ipaq and microdrive have always suited me for mobile pr0n
The industry is being "forced" to consider doing deals with soft porn? That seems unlikely. As free marketers constantly remind us, companies only motive is profit. They'd be able to make money off of porn no matter what the performance of their non-horny bottom line. They just need to convince the regulators to allow them to provide the service, their massive miscalculation on the value of the spectrum provides good cover.
11. "Thou shalt not corn-hole the neighbour's dog."
Trolling is a art,
They're clearly trying to find a use for all the low-res porn from the BBS era.
Also, using this porn will really make you go blind - as you squint like crazy trying to figure out whether you've downloaded a naked woman or a big pink pig.
Can the porn market ever reach full saturation? Has anyone ever said "y'know what? I think I have enough porn already"?
More like, not enough like the real thing. Let me know when there's pr0n matrix-style. Even then I'm sure people will complain about the time they need to work/sleep/eat/whatever.
On a more serious note, yeah I think most people have "enough". That still doesn't stop the competition for your attention though. Do you have "enough" toothpaste? Sure. But there's still ten different brands for the exact same thing.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Poor sot was arrested today.
We all know porn paved the information superhighway, it only makes since that it will pay for the wireless web as well.
.bomb, it only makes sense to expand into the wireless realm.
But seriously, the model has been proven. Porn has been making money on the internet since way before the
"Because I have balls like atom bombs, two of them, 100 megatons each. Nobody fucks with me."
...you have it set to "vibrate". Then you should be all good.
Seriously though, I don't see a massive demand for this. I've never been so horny, and I'm 20, that I absolutely HAD TO LOOK AT PORN RIGHT THE @#$% NOW!!!!!! I can wait til I get to a computer, go to a strip club, or, *gasp*, actually hit on a chick. And honestly, its soft core. If I just have to look at porn, I'll pull over at a gas station and buy a Hustler. God bless you Larry Flynnt!!!!!
Mod Points: Helping you keep your opinion to yourself.
You know, I've got a refrigerator and freezer at home, full of food.
I can order pizza, chinese food, even indian food to be delivered to my house.
Everything froum donuts to burritos in every 7-11/gas station.
Restuarants and fast food stores *everywhere*.
I can order food online, look at recipes online, even review restaurants and decide where to go online.
Now 3G wireless phones
How long until MS's new watches have menus being broadcast straight to your wrist?
Can the food market ever reach full saturation? Has anyone ever said "y'know what? I think I have enough food already"?
Cheers
-b
Is it just me, or does this give a whole new meaning to vibrating ringers? :)
the sales of bathroom stalls for use in men's rooms is up 69.6%
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Isn't it interesting that in
3. ???
4. Profit!
the ??? usually turns out to be selling porn?
Read reviews of shopping cart software
Now we'll have people looking at port (and doing the related action) on the way to work. This is going to bankrupt the small insurance companies. The question is will the phone porn make use of vibrating batteries. *shudder* /me goes off to byu stock in body shops.
if ([customer hasCreditCard]) { hottie = [[hottie alloc] initWithCustomer: customer]; [customer connectWith: hottie]; }
What we see depends on mainly what we look for. -- John Lubbock Now search for that bug slave!
So if I invest in a 3G-enabled phone, the quality of my service is at the mercy of masturbating perverts, and whether they keep up payments to these pornographic businesses?
I think I'll stay with what I've got, thanks.
Still, I guess the perverts will have access to 'better' content, if they're getting corporate sponsorship.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
So... Is this a practical application of that physical handshake demo we saw on /. a while back?
"No, honey... thats a... er... new shifter."
the mental de-sensatizing helps a lot with longevity on your first time. (I remember a friend not knowing her new 25yr old boyfriend was a virgin when she popped his cherry because he lasted a while. He of course had loads of porn on his machine).
Think of the vibration options!
sulli
RTFJ.
So, how can I register my phone as permanently under 18?
Edward Burr
Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.
The biggest draw is actually hunting for good pr0n. Delivery methods just don't do it for me...(I know there is a ton of pun opportunities everywhere in this post and this discussion, please just say no)
Would that be an up or a down mod ?
If not up you had better specify, aint no one on slashdot gonna figure that one out.
"Semper in excretum set alta variant"
I think your racial slurs probably scared them off.
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Instead, let me be flippant like everyone else, because after all kids really don't matter to most anyone on either the conservative or liberal philosophical bent... both simply talk but very few actually care... so here goes...
(Best Beavis and Butthead chortling): Uh heh, kinda brings new meaning to vibrate mode... heh heh...
BTW, when *your* kid goes Columbine, ends up idolizing the Menendez Brothers or ultimately decides you really *are* a good candidate for becoming Soylent Green, don't blame me.
By that logic, radio has yet to arrive as a technology.
If you just consider porn to be sexual fantasy material than radio had it back in the 30's and 40's. Until the 1950's single products used to sponser shows. During the 1950's because of some really substantial conflicts of interest the idea of having multiple products sponser the shows to differentiate a little more clearly between shows and commercials came about (that was until the event of the "infomercial" where we back to the older standard). Anyway the soap companies used to very profitable and wildly competitive, and they had radio shows directed at woman doing housework which involved all sorts of romantic fantasies involving the main charactors along with messages from the narrator telling them how much easier the cleaning would be if they were using a brand name soap. The melodramatic nature and the soap sponsership led them to be known as soap operas and the name stuck till today.
BTW radio was a lot racier than. The legion of decency was mainly focused on regulating movies not on radio since movies were for families and daytime radio was for adults and children too young to understand.
Now you may not consider romances porn exactly but.... in any case radio did provide sexual stimulating entertainment in its day.
"having them sell videos of executions" You mean like Faces of Death? Is this a slippery uphill slope then?
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From what I remember, there was a problem when web-enabled (we're talking with a graphic browser, not a lynx-style text browser) phones become more popular in Japan. Young males had the tendancy to download/view porn in public places, such as subways, etc.
Now I ask you, do you really want to be sitting next to the guy in an overcoat who is streaming 3G porn on his cellphone? I think this could become somewhat of a public nuisance, inviting public indecency charges for cellphone use of this type.
Page 3.
Come on guys. It's a tad different across the pond.
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
*GASP* *sputter* Holy shit!
Heh heh. Mikey, I think he likes it! How 'bout some more?
Hell yeah!
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
If you were European, you'd probably be taking public transport to work - so no problem :)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
Will the picture still go all fuzzy and the sound wobble when it gets to an - ahem - action scene?
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
The Ten Commandments depends upon whether you read Moses' ten or Paul's six (seven?) which are subtly different (See Skeptics Annotated Bible). And originally it was "Thou shalt not covert they neighbours wife". In the time of Moses it was perfectly acceptable to have more than one wife and to go outside marriage as long as the woman concerned wasn't married her-self. It's only later translations and moralities which have changed it.
I can't say I'm exactly overjoyed at the prospect of punters drooling along sidewalks with eyes fixated on whatever the tiny screen is showing. Expect a rise in the number of jaywalkers run over by autos and buses, if this development proceeds. Ah well, "think of it as evolution in action".
Especially on a 1 inch screen. Doesn't it lose something if the female form gets rendered as 2 jpeg rectangles the size of a quarter? Unless you are into Picasso that is... It sounds a bit to me like those photo - rendering - using - teletype lineprinter files from the 70s that used to look something like Marilyn Munroe if you squinted at them from 50 yds away. Very clever, but is it worth the trouble?
Virtually serving coffee
If people want cameras on their phones for regular pictures, they'll want prOn for naked pics.
By now you should all see the market potential for Omnikleen's new line of MobileW1p3z(TM) and PortiPr0nchos(TM) soon to be available at a mall kiosk near you. This is your opportunity to 'kleen up on mobile technology!
Patent pending, Patent pending, Patent pending!
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