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Over a Third of the Internet Is Pornographic

Posted by samzenpus on from the filthy-web dept.

Th'Inquisitor writes "Pornography makes up 37% of the total number of web pages online, according to a new study published by Optenet, a SaaS provider. According to the report, which looked at a representative sample of around four million extracted URLs, adult content on the Internet increased by 17% in the first quarter of 2010, as compared to the same period in 2009."

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  1. Thats more porn... by Kitkoan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats more porn then you can shake a fist at...

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    1. Re:Thats more porn... by paeanblack · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm sure somebody has tried to get a grip on it.

    2. Re:Thats more porn... by Locke2005 · · Score: 3, Funny

      "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more porn will slip through your fingers!"

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    3. Re:Thats more porn... by Kitkoan · · Score: 5, Funny

      As Michael J. Fox one said 'You can yell at it, curse it, smack it around... but that only encourages it..'

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    4. Re:Thats more porn... by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 1

      Oh I've tried, but it blew my mind.

    5. Re:Thats more porn... by Kjella · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You really have to wonder though, if that market can be oversaturated. After all, porn changes the least over time so if there's already 100GB+ or 1TB+ of whatever fetish rocks your boat on the market, how much room is there for yet another standard flick with quite "standard" girls - for porn anyways?

      I guess there'll always be the Jenna Jamesons but most of that market I think will disappear. At least here in Norway the two major production companies have folded, there's just not enough money in it. Porn is definitively a race to the bottom (pun intended).

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    6. Re:Thats more porn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's time for me to take matters into my own hands.

    7. Re:Thats more porn... by Kitkoan · · Score: 4, Insightful

      To be honest, I doubt the market can truly be over saturated. It like books, movies and music, no matter how many are made, someone will always be willing to buy more. As for those production companies that have folded, I've heard of this issue and the big issue seems to be that too many people are making their own 'home-made porno' which is flooding the market with too easy 'cheap/free' porn.

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    8. Re:Thats more porn... by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 1

      It is really in your face.

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    9. Re:Thats more porn... by quantumplacet · · Score: 4, Funny

      Regrettably, it’s true. Standards have fallen in adult entertainment. It’s video, Dude. Now that we’re competing with the amateurs, we can’t afford to invest that little extra in story, production value, feeling.

      Of course, you do get the good with the bad. The new technology permits us to do exciting things with interactive erotic software. Wave of the future, Dude. 100% electronic.

    10. Re:Thats more porn... by thrawn_aj · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Indeed. Of course, I find it amusing that big porno companies are decrying this "loss of quality" in the field, as if they were actual artists. To them I can only say - drop the delusions of grandeur if you want to survive today's market and give the people what they want - that's literally your only function (indulging the will of your consumers). There are no connoisseurs to grant you protective patronage nor any sympathy to be had from a society that detests you in public (while using you quite shamelessly in private). Sad but that's how it is.

    11. Re:Thats more porn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I just wish they wouldn't try to outdo each other by making porn more extreme and less erotic in the process. Please stop the gross spitting and choking that seems to have taken over. That is about as sexy as a day at Gitmo.

    12. Re:Thats more porn... by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 1

      You really have to wonder though, if that market can be oversaturated. After all, porn changes the least over time so if there's already 100GB+ or 1TB+ of whatever fetish rocks your boat on the market, how much room is there for yet another standard flick with quite "standard" girls - for porn anyways?

      You can apply virtually the same arguments to books, films and music. The point here is that as the world and culture changes, the products in that culture must also change in order to stay accepted and contemporary. In other words, most people nowadays probably wouldn't find 80's porn stars so much arousing as amusing.

      Very few works break this trend, though some can. Mathematical texts for example are usually quite timeless, with works like Euclid's elements surviving untouched to the present day. The same goes for religious texts like the Bible.

      And so I nominate my own post on Pornography, Mathematical and the Bible in the "Most unlikely argument" category in next Slashdotted awards.

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    13. Re:Thats more porn... by DJLuc1d · · Score: 1

      Get with the times man!

      I guess there'll always be the Lexi Belles but most of that market I think will disappear.

      Fixed that for you

    14. Re:Thats more porn... by Knara · · Score: 1

      The first company to come out with fully interactive, fully immersive tactile VR body suits will have a CEO with wealth that rivals Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Get on it!

    15. Re:Thats more porn... by Knara · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Some people like it. I like it sometimes. Depends on my mood. There's still tons more vanilla porn out there for folks like you.

    16. Re:Thats more porn... by CAIMLAS · · Score: 2, Insightful

      People "buy" porn? When did they start doing that again?

      Porn is free for those who look, and has been for the better part of the last decade. It's so prevailant that it's difficult to avoid. The market is, for all intents and purposes, "saturated".

      Porn is not like books, because books cost money to produce and can be sold for only so much. There are publisher controls on how many get printed each year, and so on, so as to not overwhelm customers and create a glut of supply.

      Will the amount of porn go down? God no. But it is likely that the quality of "good" porn will go down as the amateurs take over with free, ad-supported content.

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    17. Re:Thats more porn... by Dogbertius · · Score: 1

      Thats more porn then you can shake a fist at...

      Talk to the hand!

    18. Re:Thats more porn... by bertoelcon · · Score: 2, Informative

      Some porn is as close to art as most movie's showing at the theater. Not the "just porn" stuff but some have the storytelling elements and decent acting. Pirates and Pirates 2 are probably the best examples of that type.

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    19. Re:Thats more porn... by Kitkoan · · Score: 1

      The first company to come out with fully interactive, fully immersive tactile VR body suits will have a CEO with wealth that rivals Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Get on it!

      No, the first company that makes a fully VR body suit that can clean itself will have that money. Would you really want to clean that suit out yourself every time?

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    20. Re:Thats more porn... by thrawn_aj · · Score: 1

      I guess so and yes, I really should rein in my snark in this respect =]. After all, if someone's making a film, they have the right to (a priori at least) assume they have created art. It's just that I doubt very much whether that sort of art would have many patrons (for the art's sake). Which means that there won't be anyone to protect that art form if, no ... when it does start dying out due to the homebrew/amateur stuff, which satisfies the consumers' main need (the need that drives them to porn in the first place). It's sorta like the art thing is a very minor (and rare) aspect of porn and far from the main selling point for porn. It's like the toys that come with breakfast cereal. If a big breakfast cereal company starts dying out tomorrow through competition with a rival cereal bar maker, I really doubt they could save themselves by stressing the quality of the toys they supply. I don't know whether that makes me hungry or horny :/ but I do know that that's hands down the most bizarre analogy I have ever come up with o.O

      To summarize, what I said in my original post, minus the part where I was being an asshole =p

    21. Re:Thats more porn... by Knara · · Score: 1

      People who wear wetsuits are worse off.

    22. Re:Thats more porn... by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 1

      Agreed that some of it is art, but I very much doubt Pirates is at all close to that. An example of good acting? Maybe, but not the best example of "quality"...

      Of course, I can't believe I'm actually getting into a critical discussion of porn. It's not that I think porn doesn't deserve to have its own critics, awards, etc -- it's more that I wonder what it says about me :(

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    23. Re:Thats more porn... by danbert8 · · Score: 1

      And take off your shoes dammit! Geez, you'll get crap on the bedsheets...

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    24. Re:Thats more porn... by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      That depends very much what you mean by "good", which is why (I'm guessing) you put it in quotes. "Amateur" is an entire fetish of its own anyhow -- one which people pay for, oddly enough.

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    25. Re:Thats more porn... by chromas · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Or, depending on the video, crap on the shoes...

    26. Re:Thats more porn... by The+Archon+V2.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm trying to think of a pun to keep this going, but it's just too hard.

    27. Re:Thats more porn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yeah, well, I still jerk off manually.

    28. Re:Thats more porn... by kimgkimg · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, it's such a shame that the intrigue and drama in the porn plot lines have suffered so. I was always on the edge of my seat because who ever knew why the pizza delivery boy was there at the mansion? And the anguish and inner conflict experienced by the pool boy or gardener as they struggle with the business/client relationship. Should they pursue the relationship with the housewife who's there alone, but yet pays their bills?

    29. Re:Thats more porn... by Kitkoan · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm trying to think of a pun to keep this going, but it's just too hard.

      Just keep working at it, I'm sure something will come...

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    30. Re:Thats more porn... by Artifakt · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Art is certainly rare in porn, but it's pretty rare in commercial television as well - perhaps the real question is, is it getting rarer? Satire and Parody tend to count as artistic values. I don't know if there's anything like parodies coming out nowdays, but back during the 70's - 80s, there were. Many films had titles such as '8 to 4' (parodying '9 to 5'), or Flesh Gordon (which ended up being distributed as nonporn or at least softcore, because the funny parts were, well, funny enough to stand on their own.) You could just about bet there would be a porno version of some films, because you could see how some of the parts that could easily be parodied would be sexual humor.
              As for "minor", for some people, everything short of Shakespeare or at least Beckett is minor. Tons of directors could aspire to make the great XXX commentary on the human condition, and it's quite possible not one of them would hit such a high mark. Devil in Miss Jones definitely aspired to say something about religious repression of natural human desires, but did it actually say anything at all important? I doubt anyone in the porn industry today is even aiming that high, but I doubt that people in the TV industry get as much freedom and/or resource commitment when they try to break out of cliche land as they once did. Maybe porn is facing the same problem as video media in general, more than something unique to porn.
           

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    31. Re:Thats more porn... by proxxy · · Score: 1

      tea, earl grey, hot err... i mean.. pee, pearls, gay, hot

    32. Re:Thats more porn... by hairyfeet · · Score: 1

      Look up "Batman XXX" which is a porn sendup of the 60s Batman recently released. They still make parodies, they just get buried under the tons of product.

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    33. Re:Thats more porn... by zish · · Score: 3, Funny

      This thread is a stroke of genius!

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    34. Re:Thats more porn... by Luckyo · · Score: 1

      Have you actually seen those two films? I got them to watch with a girlfriend, and we actually fell asleep in the middle of the second one, and mind you, it wasn't the "exhausted happy"-kind but "holy shit this movie is boring"-kind. Between the clear attempt to copy the original without having a clue how to actually write such a movie without it ending up a pale shadow of original and tasteless hardcore porn with classic "zero emotion in actors" problem that most 1k+ scenes porn actresses have, it was devastatingly boring.

      There's much more exciting porn to watch with a girlfriend or alone. There are a whole lot better movies to watch that aren't porn. Sure, it's a best of its kind - a fusion of two different genres. It's just that it's such a bastard child of two, it ended up crippled and horrifyingly bad in every conceivable way.

      Really, the biggest problem of the porn industry is the "professionals". It seems to be impossible for them to be anything more then literally sex machines once they get enough experience under the belt, which completely destroys much of the movie's feel, and which is why amateur porn is so much more popular. Amateurs seem human, rather then some weird sex bots that are great at taking positions that require an hour daily at the gym practicing, and similar amount of emotion to that of a bot.

    35. Re:Thats more porn... by buswolley · · Score: 1
      But but but...

      Everywhere I go it's the same damn ho.

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    36. Re:Thats more porn... by pinkushun · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Yup, agreed, there's not enough erotic sexy stuff. Extreme porn should really only exist through personal experience, and not because it's too extreme, but rather because it pokes a part of your brain that is exclusive to each person. Cheapening extreme fetishes with bad porn is just not cool.

    37. Re:Thats more porn... by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      You really have to wonder though, if that market can be oversaturated.

      Bukkake!

      Seriously though, I was just thinking that what I needed was some new porn. I'm not helping the industry stay afloat though, IYKWIM, AIKYD.

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    38. Re:Thats more porn... by niktemadur · · Score: 1

      Now that we’re competing with the amateurs, we can’t afford to invest that little extra in story, production value, feeling.

      While joking and playing with the absurd, you've described a deadpan mentality that infects many areas of business - clone mediocrities going at each other. Back in my hometown, my favorite mini-market had a selection of products that I would buy daily, in fact it was THE most successful mini-mart in a town of just under half a million. Great selection, motivated employees, etc.
      Across the street, when a national chain opened for business, you could hear the crickets chirping. Then a national rival bought my favorite mini-mart, and systematically eliminated every reason I (and many other fellow citizens), had for going there, to "compete" with the "business" across the street.
      About a year later, corporate HQ did a survey to determine why sales had plummeted at that particular store, after it became a franchise.

      As for story, production value, feeling in porn, blame Shakespeare-trained actor and overall Twentieth Century Renaissance Man Jamie Gillis for inventing gonzo.
      But wait, that's Boogie Nights and Dirk Diggler, San Fernando, Las Vegas, etc. What's the deal with the relentless waves of "fresh meat" coming (no pun intended) out of Eastern Europe? It's like WWII on the Eastern Front (the REAL War), no matter how successful the Axis were in any given campaign, they always had to face yet another wave of better trained and equipped Soviet soldiers. Yeah, an incredibly insensitive analogy, I know, but there it is, the porn wars fought by ex-socialist women, from societies way more bohemian than WASPs like openly allow.

      In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, right on the Texas border, criminological hypothesis suggest that the thousands of women who have vanished in the last twenty years are not victims of a serial killer or killers, but of a cartel (or cartels) of snuff films. What kind of a sexually repressed, fucked up world we live in, where something like that is even a possibility? It's like institutionalized psychosis, not in an "All I wanted was a Pepsi" simplicity.

      The mind being the body's largest sexual organ, one or more people making reproductively-inspired physical contact is erotic, whether or not it uses the right or wrong biologically-inspired canals, whether I like it or not. The same number of people or more inflicting non-consensual physical contact (sexual or violent), is the definition of obscenity to me.

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    39. Re:Thats more porn... by ta+bu+shi+da+yu · · Score: 1

      When they mentioned that the firm who did the study was into SaaS, I didn't realise it was Sex as a Service!

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    40. Re:Thats more porn... by dbialac · · Score: 1

      And with your help we'll get it up to 50%.

    41. Re:Thats more porn... by JustABlitheringIdiot · · Score: 1

      Yes, it's such a shame that the intrigue and drama in the porn plot lines have suffered so. I was always on the edge of my seat because who ever knew why the pizza delivery boy was there at the mansion? And the anguish and inner conflict experienced by the pool boy or gardener as they struggle with the business/client relationship. Should they pursue the relationship with the housewife who's there alone, but yet pays their bills?

      You have officially ruined those plot lines for me. Thank you. Now whenever I see that I'll be focused on how deep it is rather than how deep she can go.

      *gently weeps while pressing shift+del*

    42. Re:Thats more porn... by cyphercell · · Score: 1

      Don't beat yourself up over perfectly normal sexuality. (no pun intended)

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    43. Re:Thats more porn... by archmcd · · Score: 1

      Only on /. would a comment like that be considered "Insightful"

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    44. Re:Thats more porn... by archmcd · · Score: 1

      Depends on how dedicated/deviated you are. Some might think the dirty suit smells more "authentic" and therefore adds to the experience.

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    45. Re:Thats more porn... by gozargozarian · · Score: 1

      Come on, guys. Don't go soft on me now!

    46. Re:Thats more porn... by chromas · · Score: 1

      Maybe it's the heat (is it warm yet?). I sure was surprised to see the lame joke get modded up like that.

    47. Re:Thats more porn... by Ravenscroftj · · Score: 1

      I think genius is becoming a lot more prominent because of the internet!

  2. How stupid. by click2005 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    FTFA... Web sites that contain violence have grown by 10.8 per cent, terrorism content by 8.5 per cent, and illegal drugs purchase by 6.8 per cent, and are continuing to grow, according to to the study, although it failed to define what it means by these terms.

    So a gaming site mentioning GTA4 could be counted as violence, drugs & porn.

    Rotta reckons, "There is a growing trend for online role-playing games to encourage negative behaviour, by rewarding violent and brutal activities within the online games."

    Yes because Crocheting & Knitting RPGs would sell so well.

    Internet shopping pages have increased by nine per cent this year, but Rotta managed not to find this worrying. What might kids be buying? Has she thought of that?

    She finds shopping sites worrying? Dont most of them still require a credit card for payment?

    according to a new study published by Optenet, a SaaS provider which delivers "on-premise" security.

    So they will sell you software to protect you from teh interwebs?

    Now I just need software to protect me from bullshit slashvertisments posing as articles.

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    1. Re:How stupid. by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Funny

      >Yes because Crocheting & Knitting RPGs would sell so well.

      There is one!!! ZOMG!!1! Gimme the link! At last I can use my +3 Knitting Needles Of Purling!

      What's the story like? I'll bet that RPG spins quite a yarn!

    2. Re:How stupid. by blair1q · · Score: 1

      So a gaming site mentioning GTA4 could be counted as violence, drugs & porn.

      Yes. It could.

      That game is violent, glorifies drugs, and treats women as prostitutes fit only to be murdered and robbed.

      You may not need "protecting" from that, but your apparent attitude that it is not what it is could be a result of your having been propagandized by it.

    3. Re:How stupid. by bmo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes because Crocheting & Knitting RPGs would sell so well.

      Bitches don't know about my cross-stitch porn.

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    4. Re:How stupid. by clone53421 · · Score: 1

      It simulates violence, and those aren’t really women, they’re bits and bytes.

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    5. Re:How stupid. by rjstanford · · Score: 1

      Rotta reckons, "There is a growing trend for online role-playing games to encourage negative behaviour, by rewarding violent and brutal activities within the online games."

      Yes because Crocheting & Knitting RPGs would sell so well.

      Have you never heard of Farmville? I'd say that with the right positioning, a virtual knitting game might be - well - no less unlikely than a virtual farming one.

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    6. Re:How stupid. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Umm... no?

      It treats the prostitutes as prostitutes, who -can- be murdered, robbed, or slept with, because freedom is the entire theme of the game.

      It treats random woemn on the street as random women on the street. You can murder and rob them if you want to, but there's no unique incentive for it. They dress nicely. They talk to each other about their likes and dislikes. They have places to go. They dress differently in different areas. It's a rich, complex, and -satirical- simulation of a large city.

      The two women who feature prominently in the plot of the game or almost entirely supportive of the player character and his cousin (who deserves less).

      The player can write emails to his momma telling her how things are going. They always leave out the gritty details, because, as I think Russell Crowe said, "even bad men love their mommas". I'd say it's the second best game ever made, after Fallout 3.

    7. Re:How stupid. by h4rr4r · · Score: 2, Insightful

      So prototype desensitizes me to jumping off the tops of buildings and gliding to the next one?

    8. Re:How stupid. by QRDeNameland · · Score: 1

      Yes because Crocheting & Knitting RPGs would sell so well.

      Grandma Theft Auto?

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    9. Re:How stupid. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      http://radicalcrossstitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/img_1048.jpg

    10. Re:How stupid. by M8e · · Score: 1

      Don't steal Grandmas auto knitter!

    11. Re:How stupid. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      That word "simulated". I don't think it means what you think it means,

    12. Re:How stupid. by Skuld-Chan · · Score: 1

      Here you go:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH8bcIdlhQw

    13. Re:How stupid. by fishexe · · Score: 1

      FTFA... Web sites that contain violence have grown by 10.8 per cent, terrorism content by 8.5 per cent, and illegal drugs purchase by 6.8 per cent, and are continuing to grow, according to to the study, although it failed to define what it means by these terms.

      So a gaming site mentioning GTA4 could be counted as violence, drugs & porn.

      Yes, and now so could slashdot, thanks to you. Good job, buddy.

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    14. Re:How stupid. by TriezGamer · · Score: 1

      No, but it should still be labeled NSFW

    15. Re:How stupid. by danbert8 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Wow, chalk up another one for Rule 34...

      http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Rule_34

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    16. Re:How stupid. by AtariEric · · Score: 1

      Knit, purl, fap.

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    17. Re:How stupid. by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 1

      Aw, you got my hopes up. :-( Meanie. I smite you with my Bobbin Of Tangled Skeins.

    18. Re:How stupid. by Jedi+Alec · · Score: 1

      That, and I expect he's a console gamer ;-)

      Get off my lawn!

      *pines about the days of x-com*

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    19. Re:How stupid. by clone53421 · · Score: 2

      When I graduated from, oh, kindergarten or so, I acquired this amazing capability... to differentiate between what’s real and what’s make-believe. Maybe you haven’t?

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  3. 37%? by hoboroadie · · Score: 5, Funny

    I clearly need to spend more time surfing the web.

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  4. Rule 34 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Applying Rule 34 in reverse, one could say that all of the internet is pornographic. I mean, there's got to be someone who gets off reading papers on arXiv, right?

    1. Re:Rule 34 by dieth · · Score: 1

      Don't tell the aussies, they'll filter the ENTIRE internets!

  5. You Lie! by DaveRexel · · Score: 1

    it's 100% if you count the fans ;-)

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  6. Anonymous Coward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The Internet is for porn.

  7. Correction: 37% is NUDITY by commodore64_love · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A lot of sites are nothing more than naked bodies. I'd estimate only about ~20% are actual porn (sex).

    I wish people would stop confusing the two, because they are not the same.

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    1. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by Kitkoan · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd estimate only about ~20% are actual porn (sex).

      You also have to remember the difference between porn and erotica, the differences being of course the lighting.

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    2. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by geekoid · · Score: 1

      thanks for defining pornography for the world~

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    3. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 1

      I highly, HIGHLY doubt that almost half of the nudity online is non-erotic. I think your estimates are whack. Nudity as art or lifestyle or what-have-you probably accounts for 5% or or less of that figure, not ~17%.

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    4. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Funny

      You also have to remember the difference between porn and erotica, the differences being of course the lighting.

      I thought that porn is naked, whereas erotica is nude.

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    5. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by nurb432 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What difference does it make anyway?

      Personally as long as i find the content i need, i don't care what else is there.

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    6. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by interkin3tic · · Score: 1

      Jon Stewart's "America" notes that Justice Potter Stewart said "I shall not today attempt further to define... [hard-core pornography];. But I know it when I see it..." Later, he settled on the more descriptive "That which gives me wood."*

      So I guess we'd have to dig up Potter Stewart to decide if your definition is right or wrong.

      * pretty sure JS made that last part up though.

    7. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by commodore64_love · · Score: 2, Insightful

      >>>porn and erotica

      I don't see any difference. If there's a real or fake dick being inserted in a hole, or a pussy being licked, then it's sex and qualifies as "porn" for me. i.e. Not something I'd show children under age 13.

      On the other hand nudity is just that - a body without clothes. Lots of cultures think nudity is acceptable, and a photo of that nudity is not "porn" (or evil as some Puritan-americans claim). I don't care if my kid sees it.

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    8. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by bwcbwc · · Score: 1

      The lighting...and the focal length on the camera. If you use a macro lens it's porn. If you use a wide angle lens it's erotica. A zoom lens can be either.

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    9. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by GofG · · Score: 1

      Though I have seen the "~" sentence ender for at least 5 years, and been reading your sig for at least a year and a half (I read the comment chain of pretty much every interesting /. article), this is the first time I have ever seen you yourself use the snarky punctuation. Seeing it literally made me so startled that I spewed coffee all over my desk. This is a momentous occasion.

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    10. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by mikael_j · · Score: 1

      Actually, from what little I've seen it seems that some pornographers have taken to using "fisheye" lenses for their porn, and making sure to keep things that are supposed to seem big in the right spot (to take advantage of the distortion caused by fisheye lenses).

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    11. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by Itninja · · Score: 3, Informative

      "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

      Pornography is not exclusively depictions of sex. From a big-boy dictionary:

      "1 : the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement
      2 : material (as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement"

      Pornography is any iamge that is intended to arouse sexual desire in someone. Depiction of a sexual act is not required. In fact the image doesn't even need nudity. For example, a website showing pictures of little girls in their undies, published for the intention of arousing the audience, would be pornography.

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    12. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by ignavus · · Score: 1

      A lot of sites are nothing more than naked bodies. I'd estimate only about ~20% are actual porn (sex).

      I wish people would stop confusing the two, because they are not the same.

      When I look at it, it is tasteful erotic art.

      When you look at it, it is common porn.

      When he looks at it, it is filthy disgusting exploitation.

      Yep, not the same at all.

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    13. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by kimgkimg · · Score: 1

      Oh I thought it was farm animals...

    14. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by hedwards · · Score: 2, Funny

      Isn't that a bit like being between a cock and a hard place?

    15. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by Itninja · · Score: 1

      That's the word's root origin from 150 years ago, not what it means (or has meant) for many generations. No more than the word 'assassin' means 'people who smoke hash'.

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    16. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by cmarkn · · Score: 1

      Well, there's that, but also porn is in color whereas erotica is graytone or sepia.

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    17. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by Aceticon · · Score: 1

      Oh noes.

      They found my archive with 10 years of posts from alt.sex.stories

    18. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by gravis777 · · Score: 1

      I do not like the title of the slashdot article - Anyone on slashdot should know there is more to the internet than the Web. However, I could also see 37% of e-mail, p2p traffic, and newsgroups being "pornographic" (although, with my experience in newsgroups, depending on where you draw the pornographic line, it could be much higher. Some might considered clothed people in provocative poses or situations to be pornographic which, to pull a number out of my ass, would mean taht probably a good 75% of usenet is pornographic, 24% is pirated and the following 1% is everything else).

      That being said, with stuff like google, and ad filters, I don't "stumble" upon the porn sites anymore unless I am specificly looking for them. Back in the days before google, doing a search for something like "Sailor Moon" or "Dragonball" (yes, I'm an anime geek) on Alta Vista or Webcrawler (is that its name?) would return several hundred sites, and you would have to wade through probably dozens of porn sites before you found what you want. Google has changed everything - at least on the web.

      If you are using some p2p sharing program, well, do so at your own risk. A 300 meg MP3 is probably not an MP3. A search for Lolita is probably not going to yield a movie with Dominique Swan. And depending on which p2p network you are on, a browse of a random users shared files will most likely yield more porn than everything else combined.

      But, back to your argument, even on P2P, what is porn? Is a german porn video on the same level as a picture of a college girl doing stuff to herself, and is that on the same level as meeee.jpg of some random girl flashing her tits in a mirror and taking a picture of it?

      If nudity = porn, I could probably make the statement that 20% of all art in musuems in Europe are porn.

      Now, what I am also wondering is where do these studies come from? I have heard anywhere from 10% of all websites to a staggering 80% of all websites are pornographic in nature. Are they returning results from just search engines? Darknet? Are they including sites that are not indexed by search engines? Or are they really browsing porn sites in these studies and then pulling a number out of their butts?

    19. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY by repetty · · Score: 1

      > Pornography is any iamge that is intended to arouse sexual desire in someone.

      Re-read the definition for porn that you posted; it's inaccurately limited. Porn also includes the written word without any illustrations at all.

  8. I Don't Believe It by Favonius+Cornelius · · Score: 1

    I doubt this is true honestly. I wonder how this figure was come to. Does a one page web page count as one count, right next to expansive wikipedia? That would be misleading.

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    1. Re:I Don't Believe It by Kitkoan · · Score: 1

      Trust me, you'll believe it when you see it...

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  9. Unfortunately 90% of them are TGP driver sites by Vekseid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Always frustrating to see them littering all over the place.

    Glad for the RPG mention though. Good to know I'm part of what's corrupting America.

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    1. Re:Unfortunately 90% of them are TGP driver sites by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 2, Funny

      Unfortunately? TGPs kick ass. How else could I quickly become acquainted enough with pornstars/producers that I like so that I can find torrents of them? Forums I suppose... but IDK... porn forums are kind of creepy. Oh LOL... I just noticed your sig.

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  10. That's All? by BJ_Covert_Action · · Score: 1

    Was I the only one surprised at how low 37% seems?

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    1. Re:That's All? by Tetsujin · · Score: 5, Funny

      Was I the only one surprised at how low 37% seems?

      Lower still when you consider your mom accounts for half of that (or two-thirds by mass...)

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    2. Re:That's All? by Hatta · · Score: 1

      Nope. At least 66% of my thoughts are pornographic. I'm a little disturbed that I'm raunchier than the internet.

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    3. Re:That's All? by lennier1 · · Score: 1

      Was I the only one surprised at how low 37% seems?

      I was expecting something above 95%. The rest is pretty much background noise.

    4. Re:That's All? by rgviza · · Score: 1

      They only checked 4 million URLS. There are 87,966,601 registered domain names according to this page: http://whois.sc/internet-statistics/

      This 37% statistic is complete bunk. What they should measure is the amount of traffic dedicated to porn...

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  11. New controversy: Google leading porn industry. by BlueKitties · · Score: 1

    Google now processes hundreds of thousands of Gigabytes of pornography per day. Each second, Google processes more porn than you have on your flash drive, iPhone, and desktop combined.

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    1. Re:New controversy: Google leading porn industry. by AxemRed · · Score: 1

      Each second, Google processes more porn than you have on your flash drive, iPhone, and desktop combined.

      Want to bet?

    2. Re:New controversy: Google leading porn industry. by BlueKitties · · Score: 5, Informative

      Well, ever since I learned google images has a "find similar images" feature, I have been using it as a sort of cloud-porn-computing system. And google videos is nice too... google is my GOTO porn site these days.

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    3. Re:New controversy: Google leading porn industry. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Ok, now I have to try that feature in Google Images.

      Strictly for scientific purposes you understand ...

    4. Re:New controversy: Google leading porn industry. by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 1

      Mod parent informative...

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    5. Re:New controversy: Google leading porn industry. by rhyder128k · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I have found that Google image search often omits the "find similar images" button for images containing nudity.

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  12. I'm glad we have this new technology.. by greywire · · Score: 5, Funny

    FOR PORN!

    Ooops, sorry..

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    1. Re:I'm glad we have this new technology.. by BlueKitties · · Score: 2, Funny

      i can has porn? No, i cant has porn but DROID DOES.

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    2. Re:I'm glad we have this new technology.. by shermo · · Score: 1

      Why you think the net was born?

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    3. Re:I'm glad we have this new technology.. by pinkushun · · Score: 1

      Speaking of new tech, I wonder when the porn industry is catching on 3D movies. Here comes the money shot!

    4. Re:I'm glad we have this new technology.. by greywire · · Score: 1

      I wouldnt be suprised to see them give it a good push just like they did with DVDs..

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  13. Wait... by Locke2005 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does this count as a "porn site"?

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    1. Re:Wait... by powerlord · · Score: 2, Funny

      Does this count as a "porn site"?

      Not so much anymore: http://xkcd.com/751/

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    2. Re:Wait... by Kozz · · Score: 1

      Does this count as a "porn site"?

      I suppose that depends on whether "Photoshop" is an erogenous zone.

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  14. An brand new algorithm to classify terrorism? by zill · · Score: 1

    Web sites that contain violence have grown by 10.8 per cent, terrorism content by 8.5 per cent,

    Let me guess, they just classified every web-page containing Arabic characters to be "terrorism content", didn't they?

    1. Re:An brand new algorithm to classify terrorism? by geekoid · · Score: 1

      yep, those pesky Arab Numerals.

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    2. Re:An brand new algorithm to classify terrorism? by clone53421 · · Score: 1

      Amusingly enough, Arabic numerals (0123456789) aren’t used in Arabic-language writing. These are.

      Slightly offtopic, I realise, but what on Idle isn’t?

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    3. Re:An brand new algorithm to classify terrorism? by jbezorg · · Score: 1

      Agreed. "terrorism content" is such a broad term. I wonder if, for instance, an exiled North Korean citizen blogging about the overthrow of the North Korean Government would fall into "terrorism content"?

      But it does make good "frighten the masses" material. I suspect some politician will be citing "a recent study". Complete with unorthodox rounding....

      "40% of the internet is porn and 10% is linked to terrorism!!!!!! We need to control this!!!!!"

      And later in the campaign...

      "Half! I'll repeat. Half of the internet is porn and almost a quarter of it is linked to terrorism!!!!!! We need to control this!!!!!"

      And even later in the campaign...

      "90% of the internet is porn and linked to terrorism!!!!!! OMG!!! Think of the children!!! We need to control this!!!!!"

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    4. Re:An brand new algorithm to classify terrorism? by treeves · · Score: 1

      I thought it interesting that the Eastern Arabic character for eight is the same as the Japanese character.

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  15. Dr Cox quote (Scrubs) by amstrad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dr Cox: I'm fairly sure that if they took all the porn off the Internet, there'd only be one website left, and it would be called bring-back-the-porn.com

  16. no content by fermion · · Score: 3, Insightful
    There is no content in this article, just a statement of random unsubstantiated statistics.

    And what if the random trivia is true? What if half the internet is for adults? Aren't half the people in the world adults? Why should they not have a representative portion of the internet? So we have to sanitize the world for the developmentally challenged that have never seen a real vagina or penis.

    And then, what is pornographic? If I write a story with a plot and gratuitous sex scene is that pornographic? We want definitions.

    This is just a useless piece of fluff intended to make people who aren't getting laid mess in their pants. Oh, think of the kids. Oh, Oh, the kids. We have to protect, the Oh, kids.

    We already know that 99.99999% of the interent has no useful content. Yahoo is evidently becoming the ultimate porn site by advertising it is the place of entertainment news. Pretty soon the only safe place to be will be /. Even XKCD can't be trusted. Fuck.

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    1. Re:no content by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 1

      Oh, think of the kids. Oh, Oh, the kids. We have to protect, the Oh, kids.

      fap fap fap ... yes, go on...

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    2. Re:no content by DogPhilosopher · · Score: 1

      | There is no content in this article, just a statement of random unsubstantiated statistics.

      Yes, the good people of Optenet pulled these numbers out of their ass. I know because I saw the video on gmilfspullingthingsoutoftheirass.com

    3. Re:no content by Locke2005 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Pretty soon the only safe place to be will be /. No chance of seeing any naked women on /., but there ARE a lot of dicks!

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    4. Re:no content by 2obvious4u · · Score: 1

      So we have to sanitize the world for the developmentally challenged that have never seen a real vagina or penis.

      If that is the test, then no we don't need to sanitize. Everyone has seen a real vagina or penis. Now if you were to use an AND operator, then we might have an issue.

  17. That little? by jollyreaper · · Score: 1

    I'm both surprised and feeling more hope for humanity.

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  18. Slashdot by d4nowar · · Score: 1

    News for nerds. Stuff that matters.

    Ohh and how it matters.

  19. "child protection projects at Optenet" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Ana Luisa Rotta, director of child protection projects at Optenet"

    So they have a commercial interest in this topic and to make things even worse, they claim to be "child protection"... those are the worst. I don't trust this study or them at all.

  20. Let me fix that summary for you by rundgong · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to the report, which probably looked at a well chosen sample of around four million extracted URLs, adult content on the Internet increased by 17% in the first quarter of 2010, as compared to the same period in 2009."

    When someone tries to sell you software to protect you from the evil porn that you might accidentally see on the internet, I'm not sure I'm gonna believe their claims of how much porn there is.

  21. Te distinction should be made: by amanicdroid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How much of that is malware disguised as porn?

  22. That may be true, but... by Conchobair · · Score: 1

    I read the internet for the articles.

  23. All growing and no shrinking by dustin_0099 · · Score: 1

    For "Web sites that contain violence have grown by 10.8 per cent, terrorism content by 8.5 per cent, and illegal drugs purchase by 6.8 per cent".

    Does that mean all web sites are converting to terrorist web pages selling porn and drugs?

    1. Re:All growing and no shrinking by Looce · · Score: 1

      It will probably be increases of 10.8%, 8.5% and 6.8% compared to the previous proportion, not the current entire Internet.

      So if violence grew by 10.8%, but the previous proportion was 4.4%, you jump to about 4.9%.

  24. That seems a little low by tylersoze · · Score: 1

    *Only* 37%?

  25. More than that according to Joyce by fyoder · · Score: 4, Interesting

    James Joyce defined pornographic art as art created with the intention of inspiring desire to possess the object. By this definition, advertising art is pornographic, and there's no shortage of that on the web! Perhaps a third of the content on the web isn't pornographic.

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  26. Who cares about #'s we need solutions by Orga · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is dire news indeed. I wish the article has discussed possible solutions to the lack of porn found on the internet

  27. Awesome. by Jaysyn · · Score: 3, Informative

    Awesome, that means we only have 2/3rds left to go!

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  28. That's it?! by RLU486983 · · Score: 1

    They say this as if it were a bad thing; /me continues cataloging the internet.....

    1. Re:That's it?! by AthleteMusicianNerd · · Score: 1

      You fucker, you took my line!!! :P I thought that's what the internet was for.

  29. What about traffic? by sirrunsalot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The interesting question, if you ask me, is how much traffic is devoted to porn. This is the result of a survey of four million URLs, but I could set up thousands of sites about pomegranates if I wanted, and it wouldn't have much to do with interest in pomegranates. (Don't ask why pomegranates. I just thought a pomegranate sounded good right now. Too much darn work though.) I suppose in large volume the quantity correlates with the size of the industry, but that still doesn't take into account the number of sites required to meet the needs of the people. Other people, that is, am I right?

    1. Re:What about traffic? by JAZ · · Score: 1

      exactly... looks like manipulating the parameters of the test to get the desired dramatic outcome. pages and even sites are really cheap to put up, getting used is much harder.

      Bandwidth used or percentage of total ecommerce would be a more meaningful statistic.

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  30. Sad by X10 · · Score: 1

    37%? What does that tell you about the average marriage?

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    1. Re:Sad by Favonius+Cornelius · · Score: 1

      Nothing. Porno has no relation to marriage.

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    2. Re:Sad by fishexe · · Score: 1

      37%? What does that tell you about the average marriage?

      That it's a lot hotter than the average marriage used to be. If the slice of that 37% that I've seen is any indication, that is.

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  31. At first I thought, "no way" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At first I thought, "no way", but then I considered that they were saying web pages, not web domains. No doubt, any single porn website might have thousands of individual pages, whereas most websites only have a few dozen. So yeah, I could see 37%.

  32. Baseless guessing? by Kenoli · · Score: 1

    Pornography makes up 37 per cent of the total number of Web pages online

    According to the report, which looked at a representative sample of around four million extracted URLs ...

    So they used sheer number of URLs to make up shit about the overall composition of content on the internet?
    Retarded.

    Besides URLs being a poor indicator of amount/accessibility of content, they didn't even draw any conclusions.
    If it turned out that 1% of sites were porn, or that 99% of sites were porn, there would have been no difference in the article.
    It's just "Yep, porn exists. Maybe you should think about security! *WINK WINK*" -security provider

    1. Re:Baseless guessing? by arose · · Score: 1

      Besides URLs being a poor indicator of amount/accessibility of content, they didn't even draw any conclusions.

      URLs are horrible indication. Dynamically generating endless amounts of slightly different (or hell, the same) porn spam pages has been very easy ever since CGI was intorduced.

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  33. Netcraft by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 1

    Has anyone asked Netcraft if 2010 will be the year of the porn desktop?

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      Boobuntu?

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  34. But.. by argStyopa · · Score: 1

    MUCH of this porn is being made by pretty good looking women with utterly no self respect and clearly no standards insofar as that goes.

    My question is then: why don't I *ever* sit next to them on the plane/bus/park bench?

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    1. Re:But.. by COMON$ · · Score: 1

      You probably do and haven't realized it. Having worked IT in law enforcement, I can attest that you CANNOT judge a person's sex life by their appearance. That sweet girl on the plane or straight laced guy could be into some freaky stuff and you would never know.

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    2. Re:But.. by cosm · · Score: 2, Interesting

      You probably do and haven't realized it. Having worked IT in law enforcement, I can attest that you CANNOT judge a person's sex life by their appearance. That sweet girl on the plane or straight laced guy could be into some freaky stuff and you would never know.

      Not being snide, but what instances in your law enforcement IT experience point to that conclusion? Just looking for the scandal, humor, etc...Could you enlighten us with the correlation for the purpose of comedy and more jokes against the state (TM)?

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    3. Re:But.. by COMON$ · · Score: 1

      Well just being in IT I was often asked to help with IA cases. Also working next door to the internet crimes division I was suckered into the "dude you have to see this" more than once. As an IT admin in general you see a lot of freaky stuff. I mean, it is good that you have found what turns you on, but wow...

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  35. Need better FILTERS by commodoresloat · · Score: 1

    This statistic really underlines the need for better filtering software. If 1/3 of the internet is porn, that is fully 2/3 of most people's time that is wasted on news, technology, sports statistics and the like. We really need a reliable filtering algorithm that will allow us to filter out that useless 2/3rds.

  36. At least it's something by minstrelmike · · Score: 2, Funny

    Therefore, only 2/3rds of the internet is a compleat waste of time.

  37. Jaws quote... by thestudio_bob · · Score: 1

    We're going to need a bigger hard drive.

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  38. How would you like your official newsflash? by abbynormal+brain · · Score: 2, Funny

    World of Warcraft style?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo

    or

    Sesame Street style?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNARJPNz2CA&feature=related

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  39. It's a good thing Steve Jobs is protecting us by twoears · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing Steve Jobs and his minions are looking out for us and telling us porn is bad and blocking it. But if adult content increased 17% in the first quarter, doesn't that mean Jobs is wrong? Maybe he needs to get a grip.

  40. Gotta look after those adults. by Ironwolf · · Score: 1

    "...adult content on the Internet increased by 17% in the first quarter of 2010"

    Wow, that's a lot of adults using the Internet!

  41. representative sample of URLs by ooloogi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What is a representative sample of URLs? Due to dynamic content, the internet has an infinite number of URLs so surely the percentages you come up with are all about the methods you use to obtain the URLs. If you include enough precision in decimal degree of latitude and longitude, there's probably more of the internet just in google maps than in porn.

    1. Re:representative sample of URLs by nicholdraper · · Score: 2, Interesting

      You bring up a very good point. I used to work for an ISP, we found that porn sites were the most likely to play tricks with their pages to increase their apparent popularity. When we counted web pages by viewers and not by page hits, not a single porn site remained in the top 100. I very much doubt the percentages are accurate at all.

  42. Martin Rimm? by fishexe · · Score: 1

    Martin Rimm? Is that you?

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  43. Re:Only 1/3 ? by fishexe · · Score: 1

    That's shocking!

    Not to mention, a sharp decline since the "83.5%" of the mid-nineties.

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  44. what part of ourselves by BBird · · Score: 1

    is pornographic?

  45. A third? by Xyrus · · Score: 1

    That's it? Really?

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  46. wise man by commodoresloat · · Score: 1

    Yeah but as an earlier slashdot article pointed out, Donald Knuth was wrong!

  47. When Paul Hales started writing about IT, DOS was by kasper_souren · · Score: 1

    'When Paul Hales started writing about IT, DOS was state of the art, Microsoft had competition, a laptop was called a luggable and Amstrad was yet to source a dodgy hard disk. "In those days," ...' people had to wank watching ASCII (warning explicit imagery - for those of you still running DOS).

  48. Methodology? by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 1

    Seems to me there is a methodology issue. (Well more than one actually but this one is glaring.)

    Where did they get the URLs?

    The research could be measuring effectiveness of link-publication and advertising placement programs more than actual amount of content.

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  49. Only 1/3? by davebarnes · · Score: 1

    Wow.
    Based upon my spam emails received, I would have bet on 2/3.

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  50. Avenue Q by Jason+Levine · · Score: 1

    I can't believe nobody's posted this yet...

    The Internet is for PORN!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc&feature=related

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  51. Get your geek porn here! by davidwr · · Score: 1

    Geek porn.

    Yeah, I can see how that would be 37% of the Interweb pages. At a minimum.

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  52. 37% by page count by symbolset · · Score: 1

    It's something like 69% by bandwidth. (A statistic I made up just now, as is my right as a traditionally recognized slashdot statistific artist.)

    The reason why your Internet seems more populated by porn than this survey is that the Internet is indexed. That the Google search "ameture handcuff oral" returns exactly 0 hits from nasa.gov, ieee.org or acm.org isn't Google's fault, nor NASA's, nor IEEE's nor the ACM's. Well, it is, but only tangentally.

    /now would someone please fix the messed up comment submission form in slashcode for the traditional format? This tiny box is really lame.

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    1. Re:37% by page count by rgviza · · Score: 1

      71.5% of statistics are made up on the spot.
      87.2% of the statistics which are made up on the spot are more accurate than their counterparts compiled with actual research.

      Of this, I'm 99% certain.

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  53. OK guys, 'fess up by Lorens · · Score: 1

    adult content on the Internet increased by 17% in the first quarter of 2010

    Who among you thought it would be a good idea to put his personal collection online?

  54. *Gasp* by zerospeaks · · Score: 1

    Gasp*

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  55. Internet is for porn ! by petermp · · Score: 1

    Internet is for porn ! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5430343841227974645# :-)

  56. A third? A THIRD? by fyngyrz · · Score: 2, Funny

    We... we've got to make more porn! Right now, there's a 2/3 chance I won't see porn when surfing! This is CRITICAL!

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  57. My limit is... by BenEnglishAtHome · · Score: 1

    The spitting is weird and I don't care.

    The choking can be fun.

    But who the hell gets off on crush porn? The first crush vid I saw was made by a friend of mine and the animals being crushed were worms. This was something new on the scene and the girl involved just thought it was a little gross and messy.

    That was over a decade ago. Since then, things have "progressed". Now, you don't have to look far to find people making erotic videos featuring women stomping kittens to death. Or slowly stepping on them so that they suffer and struggle for a while before their skull pops.

    I never thought it would happen, but my personal limits have been greatly surpassed in recent years.

    Who gets off on this crap? Seriously, I'd like to know so that I can avoid those people.

  58. Only? by colin_faber · · Score: 1

    Only a 3rd? I would have thought more. I guess the recession is hurting all industries.

  59. Redirects and name-variants by Psaakyrn · · Score: 1

    Considering that there is a LOT of redirects with porn websites, I don't think counting URLs alone is accurate.