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+ FollowPorn Hampers “Minority Miracle” – Part Two
by Dorrissa D. Griffin, Esq.
Counting the Cost: Porn Sites and Adult Mobile Apps Report Booming Use and Profits, Even in Today’s Economy, Yet Is it Worth it Us?
Juniper Research has reported, however, that video chat and subscription services are estimated to drive mobile pornography industry revenues to $2.8 billion by 2015. Further, the mobile entertainment market, inclusive of mobile adult applications, is estimated to grow by 15 percent the end of 2011 despite global economic uncertainty. One reason for this growth is that the adult-entertainment industry quickly adopts new content platforms to market their products. Ironically, however, pornographers don’t contribute to the Universal Service Fund (USF) – and many are notorious for evading taxation – yet they consume huge amounts of publicly-owned spectrum.
Torrent downloads also guzzle spectrum. Out of ten thousand of the most popular torrent downloads, pornography ranks as the number one torrent download at 35.8 percent, followed by non-adult movies at 35.2 percent and music downloads in a distant sixth place at 2.9 percent, according to a study by Envisional. BitTorrent, Inc., the company that developed the latest in peer-to-peer, or “P2P,” file-sharing termed Torrents, boasts of more than 100 million monthly users – more than Hulu and Netflix combined – with Torrent file transfers estimated to account for 20 to 40 percent of all Internet traffic at any given time.
BitTorrent causes “rapid viral spreading” of pornography, copyrighted or otherwise. It naturally follows that if Torrent file transfers account for a significant portion of all Internet traffic at any given time and pornography is the number one download, then it accounts for a considerable portion of Internet traffic at any time. About another 40 percent of U.S. online time is spent on just three activities – social networking, playing games, and emailing.
Public Opinion about Pornography
Many believe that pornography damages the nation’s moral fiber whether for religious reasons, prevention of human trafficking, or the harms of exposure to youth, among others reason. Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with the harms associated with pornography, as outlined above, it has a huge impact on the amount of available spectrum everyone uses. Let’s start with streaming video.
Pornographic Web sites outpace the big movie studios when it comes to access to streaming video online. Streaming video is the chief bandwidth guzzling activity and driver of many of the advances in mobile devices of the hour. It accounts for 26.5 percent of all internet traffic according to Envisional’s study on internet usage for infringement. Streaming video and the millions of estimated mobile device purchases are the main drivers for the need for more mobile broadband spectrum. Smartphones and low cost data drive traffic to mobile adult paysites that have forecasted subscribership of 35 million by 2015. Apple, with 28.1 percent of the smartphone market according to comScore, could put a dent in the forecast. Apple banned pornographic mobile applications citing customer complaints.
Even Facebook is fighting against a recent rash of spam and malicious content consisting of images, links, and videos depicting pornography and violence appearing on users’ newsfeeds. With so many young people on the Facebook, it’s important to know their thoughts about pornography. A study by the University of New Hampshire found that “[f]orty-two percent of youth Internet users had been exposed to online pornography…. Of those, 66% reported … unwanted exposure.”
Until now, I haven’t even mentioned the aggressive and assertive efforts to block and prevent child pornography the US government is already taking. The US Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) works on a national level in partnership with ninety-three United States Attorney offices to investigate and prosecute child pornographers. As of September 2011 through the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP), CVIP Analysts reviewed seized child pornography collections from more than 29,000 investigations across the country.
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