Porn Beats Search Engines in Internet Traffic

zamboni1138 writes "A just published Reuters story claims almost 20% of all U.S. web traffic is categorized as 'adult'. While some of it is just of an adult nature, most of it is probably porn. Search engines get about 5.5%, Google being about half of that. This should surprise no one given the bandwidth intensive nature of online porn. Of course this is only the research of one company over a one week period. Is this one of the reasons why the US DOJ recently announced it is going to be taking a closer look at the porn industry?"

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Re:The real reason: The recent spread of HIV...

[Fallen Kell]

The real reason is because of the recent outbreak of HIV that has been rapidly spreading through the porn industry. Basically, one person did a movie somewhere in South America and was infected by someone else on that shoot. That person then infected at least 3 others personally (possibly 15 more). Those that were infected each infected others, etc., etc. Even though HIV tests are mandatory every few months, it can take upwards of 6 months before a person infected will test positive on a test. Leaving a minimum of around 6-9 months before someone finds out that he/she was infected.

The DOJ is most likely cracking down on the industry to find out if there is criminal liability in the incidents and to force the industry to change its practices, which seem to have failed horribily in this case. It only takes one person to not follow the strict rules or one person to lie/fake test results for many of these people to get infected...