What Percentage of Internet Traffic is Pr0n?

What Percentage of Internet Traffic is Pr0n? 141

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @01:10AM from the the-internet's-hottest-asset dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "We all joke about how much of the Internet's traffic is porn, but are there are credible studies that give a definitive answer, or at least make a reasonably intelligent guess? Looking at the amount of movie clips and entire flicks posted to the '*.erotica.*' newsgroups on a daily basis, I have to believe that porn is a significant percentage of the traffic, but is it 10%, 20%, 50%? More? I've tried to research this on my own, but Google keeps sending me to sites with porn, not site about porn. (No, really!)"

What Percentage of Internet Traffic is Pr0n?

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99% pr0n (Score:2, Funny)

by Numeric ( 22250 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @01:16AM (#5430623) Homepage Journal

I think that leaves .8% which is reading spam mail about pr0n and .2% work related, which is forwarding humorous sex jokes to friends from my work email account. Those are just my internet usage.

Get it right (Score:5, Funny)

by infonography ( 566403 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @01:21AM (#5430646) Homepage

It's not the size it's the quality.
Yeah I know, she lied.

you mean.. (Score:4, Funny)

by linuxbert ( 78156 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @01:21AM (#5430650) Homepage Journal

Theres more then just porn on the net?
wow. My brain just exploded..

Re:you mean.. (Score:3, Funny)

by The Fink ( 300855 ) writes: <slashdot@diffidence.org> on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @01:36AM (#5430725) Homepage

Are you saying that you think /. is pr0n?
OH MY.
I think you need a life. :P

Re:you mean.. (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @01:41AM (#5430742)

wow. My brain just exploded..

I think there's a joke to be made here, but I'm just going to put it down slowly and back away...

What I want to know is ... (Score:3, Funny)

by one9nine ( 526521 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @01:43AM (#5430749) Journal

How much of it is corn? Can a brother get an ear of maize up in this mo-fo?
This [google.com] is more like it.

Re:Gogle seemed to find info without a problem... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @02:10AM (#5430835)

He probably got caught doing "research" and posted to slashdot in an attempt to prove the legitimacy of his "research".

Re:Well..... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @02:13AM (#5430849)

i am vigorously masturbating to what you posted!

The real question.. (Score:3, Funny)

by majestynine ( 605494 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @02:20AM (#5430876)

The real question is:
How much of it was because of $$$$exyGirl's Journal [slashdot.org] ;)

Re:you mean.. (Score:5, Funny)

by mbogosian ( 537034 ) writes: <<matt> <at> <arenaunlimited.com>> on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @02:23AM (#5430881) Homepage

Theres more then just porn on the net?
wow. My brain just exploded..

You sure that was your brain?

Re:you mean.. (Score:2, Funny)

by mbogosian ( 537034 ) writes: <<matt> <at> <arenaunlimited.com>> on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @02:25AM (#5430896) Homepage

Theres more then just porn on the net?
wow. My brain just exploded..

You sure that was your brain?

Well, it did come out of his head. I'll let you guess which one....

More Pr0n Faster (Score:5, Funny)

by Inexile2002 ( 540368 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @02:26AM (#5430898) Homepage Journal

I have a brother who used to be an engineer at JDS Uniphase and their unofficial slogan (in the engineering department) was "More Pr0n faster". They estimated that on one line of fiber that they were maintaining something on the order of 70% of the bandwidth was pr0n. I don't really know how they arrived at this number.

Once, during an executive meeting one of the engineers raised the issue that really anyone building internet infrastructure was really in the mass pr0n delivery business and thus the company's 'No pr0n on the business machines' was in conflict with their main source of revenue.

"Pornographer! Pornographer! How can you call me that?!? I don't even own a pornograph!"

Re:A real answer (Score:3, Funny)

by themo0c0w ( 594693 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @02:26AM (#5430900)

Should my apt-get upgrade cost as much as a wget http://sluts-r-us.com/big/ass/movie/archive/hillar y_clinton.mpg?

I don't know about you, but think the latter should be so heavily taxed that it never gets downloaded, if only for the sake of humanity at large...

Re:How much porn is stashed on peoples machines (Score:2, Funny)

by frp001 ( 227227 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @07:59AM (#5431834)

Well... as your sig states I suppose.

Re:What I want to know is ... (Score:3, Funny)

by The Pim ( 140414 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @09:41AM (#5432203)

Kids sneaking back from town in the Simpsons episode where Bart and Lisa go to military school:
That was some good corn.

Re:USENET (Score:3, Funny)

by oni ( 41625 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @10:11AM (#5432372) Homepage

(how much could they possibly beat it?)

That's a whole other Ask Slashdot question!

Re:A real answer (Score:4, Funny)

by bofkentucky ( 555107 ) writes: <bofkentucky&gmail,com> on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @11:36AM (#5432957) Homepage Journal

She would want it that way, perhaps it could pay for the village (and all the associated bereaucrats) to raise a child.

Re:P2P stastics and optimization (Score:4, Funny)

by llamaluvr ( 575102 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @12:02PM (#5433157) Journal

Its' finding conclude that by having a 200 GB cache for storing popular downloads, it is plausible for an ISP to achieve a 67% decrease in P2P traffic and a 50% thoroughput bandwidth download decrease

An ISP hoarding porn, warez, and copyrighted movies/mp3s? What a lawsuit that would be!

Re:Hello!!! Off-topic!!! (Score:4, Funny)

by JWSmythe ( 446288 ) writes: <jwsmytheNO@SPAMjwsmythe.com> on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @01:41PM (#5433936) Homepage Journal

hehe..

Actually, we frequent Slashdot.com, Shoutcast.com, the major news sites, and dailyrotten.com.. :)

The 700 club blocks us from viewing.. We just get a white page that says "You're beyond saving. Good luck." :)

Re:USENET (Score:3, Funny)

by unitron ( 5733 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @07:39PM (#5437083) Homepage Journal

No, that's a "please don't ask and please, please don't tell" question.

Re:do this (Score:4, Funny)

by JWSmythe ( 446288 ) writes: <jwsmytheNO@SPAMjwsmythe.com> on Wednesday March 05, 2003 @01:59AM (#5438762) Homepage Journal

Hehe.. Igor writes those himself.. We try to get him to fix the errors, but they always keep popping up.. He uses a WYSIWYG editor.. We've been trying for years to get converted over to something automated. It's written and running, but he still insists on doing it manually..

Explains all the errors, doesn't it? :)

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99% pr0n (Score:2, Funny)

Get it right (Score:5, Funny)

you mean.. (Score:4, Funny)

Re:you mean.. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:you mean.. (Score:3, Funny)

What I want to know is ... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Gogle seemed to find info without a problem... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Well..... (Score:2, Funny)

The real question.. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:you mean.. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:you mean.. (Score:2, Funny)

More Pr0n Faster (Score:5, Funny)

Re:A real answer (Score:3, Funny)

Re:How much porn is stashed on peoples machines (Score:2, Funny)

Re:What I want to know is ... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:USENET (Score:3, Funny)

Re:A real answer (Score:4, Funny)

Re:P2P stastics and optimization (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Hello!!! Off-topic!!! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:USENET (Score:3, Funny)

Re:do this (Score:4, Funny)

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