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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*
Like woodworking? Build your own picture frames.
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
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?
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.
...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
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!!!!
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.
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
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
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...
Get your own free personal location tracker
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'
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$
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.
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
I know I should feed the trolls, but...
Man who died on the cross... to preserve the American way of life?
Would that be Medgar Evers (no, wait, he was shot) or Matthew Shepard (he was tied to a fence post, if I recall correctly).
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
...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
Isn't it interesting that in
3. ???
4. Profit!
the ??? usually turns out to be selling porn?
Read reviews of shopping cart software
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
"(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)."
Popped his? Wow. I bet that hindered his efforts to sit down and browse the porn on his computer.
Think of the vibration options!
sulli
RTFJ.
I think probably most mobile phones owned by kids were bought for them by adults, who either caved in to pressure, have money to burn, or wanted their kid to always be able to phone home in an emergency.
My daugher is only three, but I can certainly see myself buying her a phone when she's older (teenage, if I don't cave in earlier...). If she's out and about, and gets lost, or misses her last bus/train/whatever, or Fate-forbid is being followed, I'd prefer for her to being able to phone someone (me, a taxi, the police) without having to find a pay phone first. Besides, as mobile phone ownership increases, pay phones will start to die out - who will need them? We'll all have mobiles...
I'm pretty sure that to buy a contract phone here in the UK, you must be 18 or older. Not so sure about "pay as you go" phones, though; there may well be no age restriction on them, as you're not signing up for regular monthly payments (and so can't get in debt with them as easily, and don't have to be legally able to sign a contract)
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Besides, as mobile phone ownership increases, pay phones will start to die out - who will need them? We'll all have mobiles...
Just wait until you go overseas (and then I don't mean from the UK to the old continent) and find out that your mobile doesn't work, despite the fact that your provider promised it would and that the travel agency said it would.
bash$
Either low-res porn, or maybe even the market for ASCII pr0n will be revitalized!
== Jez ==
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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)
Boyfriend: "But darling, all this porn is helping me perform in bed."
Girlfried: "Good, then you can set up the computer on the side of the bed I used to occupy. Goodbye!"
"She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
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.
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.
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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?)
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".