You knew it was going to happen
The new iPod shows videos. That's not news. Nor should it be news that the porn industry is already taking advantage of the device update.
I'll leave the down-side commentary to others. Let's look at the upside: If it hadn't been for the porn industry, home videotape recorders, personal camcorders, DVD players, and even the Internet would not have advanced as quickly as they did. Conventional entertainment sources could not have driven changes with such speed and magnitude."Dirty Downloads Ready to Go on IPods" Purveyors of porn and entrepreneurs who spied a niche when Apple Computer Inc. unveiled its video-playing iPod are proving that sex even sells in tiny packages -? especially when it is portable.
One online social network of amateur pinup girls said it logged 500,000 downloads of the sexy 'featurettes' - three- to five-minute video clips -? in the first 24 hours targeting the new iPod-toting crowd.
Two in five Internet users visited an adult site in August, according to tracking by comScore Media Metrix. The company said 3 percent of all Web traffic and 2 percent of all surfing time involved an adult site.
The Internet accounted for $2.5 billion of the adult industry's $14 billion in U.S. revenues last year, about the same as revenues from cable and satellite pay-per-view showings, according to Adult Video News, a trade magazine.
Vivid Entertainment Group, a major adult video producer that already offers high-resolution still images, video clips and footage from 'voyeur cams' through its Web site, now plans to shoot shorter films specifically for the iPod and other portables.
"It could be a huge percentage of our business," says the company's chief executive, Steven Hirsch. "People love watching adult movies and to be able to carry an adult movie in your pocket is a powerful tool." (Yahoo! News)
No, I'm not defending the porn industry. But I am for giving it the credit that it deserves. But our society has to decide if having moral decay accelerate at a rate proportional to the growth of technology is a price we are willing to pay.
