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Porn in Your Pocket
cmaster383 writes "Wired is running a story about the use of a PSP for distribution of Porn. 'Two Japanese publishers of adult DVD video have announced plans to release a selection of their top titles on Sony's Universal Media Disc, or UMD, format, which is currently supported exclusively by the PSP, next month. These aren't shady gray-market items: The eight video discs will be officially licensed by Sony and carry the PSP logo on the package.'"
When home video recorders were the next big thing, the VHS format won out over Sony's higher-quality Betamax. Why? Because the adult film industry embraced VHS.
Linux activists have been focusing on the wrong market penetration...
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Say what you will, atleast Sony understands their market.
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How does the saying go...that for any media to survive in the marketplace, it has to be accepted by the porn industry?
Looks like Sony's done their homework.
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They're the most hardcore gamers I know, and now the school's probably going to ban it because of this. Unless it's only for the Japanese versions. (Didn't RTFA, probably /.ed by now)
Finally... The PSP has the killer application is needs to truly succeed. But I would hate to be the janitor required to clean the Middle school or high school bathrooms around the country.
Now come on the title could of been so much better for the article ..
For example "Porn-Station pocket" or "Play(with yourself)station pocket" or ever "Play-Station porn-set "
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"new media, same old shit"
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some porn in your pocket or are you just happy to see me!?
Here's hoping one of those 8 titles is Sluts with Nuts or Chicks with dicks. What am I saying?? anything with feces, really, will do.
This brings a whole new meaning to the term hardcore gamer...
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In this era of DCMA (see the /. post about Canada above) and Patriot Act provisions (/. post about the FBI below) and all the other incoming restrictions on our rights, good for Sony for supporting something that might be looked at as a "gray-market" item. More things like this should be released as fully-on-the-market, licensed software.
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This seems to be the first time the porn industry is hopping onto a media (medium?) bandwagon, rather than driving the wagon.
Is this unique because of the nature of the PSP, or is it a harbinger of the day when the media industry is no longer market driven. When the market must hop on to whatever wagon they're permitted to? Hmmm...
"Dear Porn Industry, we have graciously decided to -partner- with you and allow you to purchase authoring/encoding tools and use of our moniker for
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When I watch pr0n, I want it to be in the privacy of my own home so I can...uh...fully enjoy it. Why would you want to watch it on your commute to work? It would just make it harder to concentrate once you arrive.
...slashdot these days. This is OLD! This is not news anymore. I guess /. is starving for news. Stop posting old crap everyone read weeks ago.
"...Sony's Universal Media Disc, or UMD, format, which is currently supported exclusively by the PSP..."
Universal Exclusivity.
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Doesn't anyone else find it ironic that the format is claimed as the Universal Media Disc, yet it's supported only by the PSP?
USB also stands for Universal Serial Bus... But it was supported by more than just one company when it started...
Any takes as to what the heck they're doing claiming universality as long as it's Sony?
Does it mean we'll be getting a (semi) open format from Sony for once?
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Porn mainstream in Japan: Film at 11!
Now I can come wherever I go! /audience groans...
To all the people observing that porn is frequently the driving force for new media formats, someone explain to me... who is going to buy porn movies for a portable device? What is the compelling situation where one would want to watch porn on a small screen like the PSP's? Really just genuinely curious.
But i'm really not looking forward to sitting next to some guy on the train who's watching porn, and i imagine a lot of parents wouldn;t be too happy about this either. I believe a lot of porn mags are bought but most of them are 'used' at home. The whole concept seems floored, if people want porn to watch in private they'll get higher quality dvd's or if they want to watch porn on the move they'll get arrested. The market seems too small to me.
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http://illusion.jp/download/br2_psp.html
The world's most popular 1-on-1 rape game gets ported to the PSP too.
(no, seriously, this game tops the charts at Himeya Store)
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The very first thing I did with my Dell Axim was copy a couple porn WMV's over, and beat off in the bathroom at work.
we have the Memory Stick Duo.
MPEG-4 movies.
JPEG photos.
You do the math.
Remind me never to borrow any guy's PSP?
Next thing you know, they'll equip these things with a rumble pack...
Finally, a good replacement for my Libretto!
Pretty Pictures!
I used the PSP for porn almost immediately. I only saved photos on my memory stick pro duo (why does that sound so dirty, all of a sudden?). They looked really good! And then I removed them. For some reason I didn't think it was a good idea to have porn on a device that is targeted at minors and that would very probably end up in a minor's hands. I could see the headlines: "Accidental Porn Release...."
Wow, you get to see naked chicks shrunk down into two inches. Now trying to look that close will really make you go blind!
While culture may be different in Japan, I don't think there's going to be a market for PSPorn in the US. I believe there are some laws against viewing pornographic material in public or something to that effect. Even it there isn't or it isn't enforced all that much, the bracket of people who are going to have a PSP aren't going to be the ones who are going to be watching porn on the bus or in the subway. People with $300 to drop on a PSP probably don't want it getting around the office that they were watching porn on the subway. And when you are at home or in private, you'd probably want to watch porn on your TV or computer screen rather than a little 3x5 screen.
place this PSP Porn in the same drawer as your hello kitty and nimbus 2000 vibrators.
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In your pocket.....?
The government which is strong enough to protect you from everything is strong enough to take everything from you.
It's a new medium, nothing else. You can walk into just about any store that sells magazines and buy porn mags there. Kids have been sneaking/hiding porn mags for prob about as long as they have existed. Porn is all over the internet, on TV, magazines, books, DVDs, games...most of which kids are smart enough to get their hands on if they want.
Hate to break it to all those adults people out there, but aside from medical treatments or some miracle...sex is a requirement to have kids. OMG!!
Dear god, what has happened to this world. This is as impossible as nerds being sexy, or apple using intel chips.
Why is it that almost three months after NA release and well over six months since JP release EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE that mentions the PSP has yet another person seemingly possessed to post "ZOMG! Teh U stands 4 Universal, yet....it is a proprietary format!" That was a funny-once, not a funny-40-hojillion.
Did anyone bother to stop and think that maybe, just maybe, the U in UMD refers to the M and not the D? That is, you can put any kind of media on it? As in, music and movies and pictures and games, (Yes, I know that's not all media types) which is what they've been pimping the thing for in the first place? I'm not saying it's not a stupid name, and I know Sony is the king of proprietary formats, but jeez. Give it a rest already.
...I only bought it for the games!
Hey is that a PSP in your pocket...or are you just pleased to see me?
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This is just a plot by Sony to sell more accessory kits. Washable Screen Cover $19.95 Memory Stick Lotion Dispender $29.95 (refills $5.00) External Force Feedback Device $99.95
We've secretely replaced the Enterprise's dilithium crystals with Folgers crystals. Lets see if they notice.
At least the PSP will survive with all the lonely nerds who own them...
Porn is the answer to everything.
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Ewww, you mean they're going to be scat videos.
So would a link to tubgirl be on topic?
I'm still shaking my head at Sony's proprietry "universal media disk" that only works with a PSP. WTF!?
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Why not just download porn from the internet and reencode it and put it on a memory stick? Wouldn't it be easier/cheaper?
Let the commencement BEGINULATE!
Won't this lead to people going blind twice as fast from squinting at the PSP's screen?
Porn theaters, bachelor parties?
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