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Adult Content Revenue To Pay For UK 3G Licenses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the careful-what-you-wish-for dept.

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."

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  1. Right... by maxmg · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And I want to be looking at porn on a black and white 80x80 pixel screen why?

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  2. 3G must have arrived then..... by QuantumRiff · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The mark of arrival for any new technology is the ability to recieve porn on it.. And to think that conservatives like to scoff at the idea that porn drives technology..

    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.

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  3. The world would be a much better place... by hebble · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... if only we could all learn to masturbate to our imaginations.

  4. Re:How much porn is enough? by RatBastard · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Over-exposure (sorry) to porn causes burnout. Pretty soon the naked ladies/men aren't enough. You move onto "normal" hardcore (normal for your gender and sexual preference). Then that no longer gets Mr./Ms. Happy to pay attention and you move off into the borderline stuff. Then that no longer trips your trigger and you move further into teh realm of the odd and forbiddon. Soon you're furiously masturbating to Smurph porn and liking it.

    Nothing says a market doesn't exist like it having to rely on porn to make it profitable.

    Maybe the Amish are right...

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  5. Who's stupid here? by bfree · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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?

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  6. This is immoral by I+Am+The+Owl · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Making people pay for porn??

    Porn wants to be free. Get a girlfriend.

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