Porno sites responsible for nearly 1/5 of internet traffic!

People downloading internet porn consume almost 20% of total bandwidth, according to this article:

http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/04/technology/porn_search.reut/index.htm

 

Wow. Well, that means more people use the internet, so it gets cheaper for everyone. I don't have a problem with it

 

that's a pretty sad stat. honestly I am online daily for muti hours a day and not once have I ever went to a p0rn site (on purpose), they truly sicken me...

 

But with 20% of web traffic being porn, and 60-70% of email volume being spam, such massive bandwith users might actually be driving UP the cost of internet access, by forcing migration to higher bandwidth switches/routers/servers, more complicated filtering/browsing software to deal with all the unwanted crap, and faster PCs to run the more complicated software.

Add in all the useless/distracting animations, flash, and embedded multimedia crap on most commercial websites these days, and surfing the web nowadays (with cable/DSL and gigahertz CPUs) seems not a whole lot faster than it was circa 1992 or so, with a 28.8 dialup and a 486 CPU. Certainly the amount of useful CONTENT per megabyte transmitted has gone way down....

 

I'm a loser and can't get the real thing, what the hell do you expect me to do?

 

it doesnt sicken me.

makes me feel like i'm not alone

 

Sorry guys, I'll try to leave some of the bandwith left for you ..even if i have to cut back on pr0n!


I saw an article like this on slashdot the other day!

 

1/5 of the traffic huh? its also probably responsible for 75% of the spyware on my machine too, lol.

 

"I was never one of those people who like the internet... Then I found out that theres... pornography. Now I'm on the internet... a lot.'

 

They have the internet on computers now?!?

 

Yep.

Beats the shit out of running TCP/IP over 2 paper cups and a piece of string....

 

and i'm responsible for 1/5 of all porn bandwidth

 

You know I just upgraded and its just magical. I dont have to have anyone come over and draw the porn anymore

 

Think of how much faster the Internet would be if everyone just used Kazaa.

 

Do you mean to tell me, that EVERYONE doesn't?!?!?! (GASP!) LOSERS! HAHAHA!
I don't think I own any OEM copies of anything anymore! (I've named my Machine "Bluebeard"!)

 

Other info on porn and the net:

I read 40% of the money being made on the net is with porn. Yet, no one I ever talked to pays for that stuff. I'm sure that you to don't know anyone. So, who goes there?

I recently heard on the radio that some kids had sex in school now! Not only that but they have a lot of varied activities too - anal, fellation, ect... This, by many experts, is attributed to the accesibility of the material on the net.

Should I've put this on the sex forum?

 

Yeah, that's what they SAY.

Man, I never got laid in school. I feel so left out....

 

Kids were fucking in school before the internet was huge. Porn has been around for a while as well... just another something to go after with your torch and pitchfork

 

"Man, in my day the only pornography I had was a piece of driftwood with a charcoal drawing of a vagina on it."

 

Come on man, at least our grandfathers had the Sears Roebuck catalog, even if it was only a drawing of a lady wearing the full body-armor that in those days was passed of as panties.