Makes one wonder.....

tickler · 2005-09-14, 02:44 PM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09...covery_survey/

If 700/1000 hard drives still contain porn, and assuming that some of the other 300 were wiped properly.
Who and what percentage is actually pushing this anti-porn debate?

ecchi · 2005-09-14, 03:58 PM

My personal guess is that it is people in the industry. "Forbidden fruit" sells a lot better than legal porn. Take the UK for example, when all but the softest of softcore was illegal over here, softcore video tapes sold at about the equivalent of $80, and hardcore videos went for close on the equivalent of $200. Now it is legal, you can pay up to about the equivalent of $50 for hardcore videos and DVDs, but if you look around you can get them for about $10 to $20. Softcore goes for even less (often under $2 on video). A lot of smaller dealers would love to see hardcore banned again.

I myself was lucky. In the early 80's you could sell almost anything on video, but somewhere around 1982/3 they passed a law so that video was covered in the same way as everything else. To give shops with large stocks of videos time to get rid of what they already had, the law did not make selling the tapes illegal until 1984, and even then there was a further two years for most films (it was a complicated law). As soon as the law was passed shops and wholesalers started selling off old stock cheaply to get rid of it. I started buying up porn, horror, and martial arts films (the ones that were going to get hardest hit by the ban). Then I resold them at markets, advertising them as "soon to be unavailable" and charged ridiculously high prices for the tapes. People purchased them by the bucket load at many times the price I paid for them, and long before the law finally came into force I was able to get into the legitimate video business.

Now the law has got a lot more lax over here, it is interesting to see films that were illegal over 15 years suddenly reappearing again. And selling for a lot less than I used to charge for them two decades ago.

tickler · 2005-09-14, 07:10 PM

To my way of thinking, this kind of information will make some pretty good ammunition for lawyers.

If you want community standards? How about over 70% of people surf for porn. And it is hard data, not something that some politician pulls out of his backside.

Halfdeck · 2005-09-14, 10:48 PM

I think it's do as I say, not as I do kind of deal. The same people who go on and on in public about how harmful porn is will go home and surf for porn for hours when they think no one is looking.

Anyway, think of cigarette smokers addicted to a pack a day advocating against smoking, that doesn't seem too strange to me. And then you'll realize its not strange to hear people who surf porn every day tell you porn is evil.

ecchi · 2005-09-15, 05:09 AM

Porn is evil. Everyone on this board will go to hell.

StaceyJo · 2005-09-15, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by ecchi

Porn is evil. Everyone on this board will go to hell.

we all sinners here! porn I guess is evil but the money is here in this arena... and were making money because we live and we survived... that's human! but I think it all depends to the person, if he wants to be bad, naughty, good... as long we're not killers! hehehe

SirMoby · 2005-09-15, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Halfdeck

I think it's do as I say, not as I do kind of deal. The same people who go on and on in public about how harmful porn is will go home and surf for porn for hours when they think no one is looking.

Anyway, think of cigarette smokers addicted to a pack a day advocating against smoking, that doesn't seem too strange to me. And then you'll realize its not strange to hear people who surf porn every day tell you porn is evil.

You're right. You won't hear people that are not effected by porn speak about it as evil. You will only hear from people that have issues with it and usually that issue is temptation. Just listen to someone speaking about it and they always mention the temptation.

If they could spend say 15 to 30 minutes with porn and go on about thier day then they would never complain about it. I think the temptation comes in when they want to spend all day with it.

Lemmy · 2005-09-15, 07:20 AM

Without the Religious Right and the Moral Majority we'd all be out of business.

ecchi · 2005-09-15, 01:11 PM

RE - "as long we're not killers!" We're not ? Oh shit, I think I must be in the wrong place.

Beachbum · 2005-09-15, 02:10 PM

Porn drives the internet! I mean cmon without it what else ya need it for, a book report? LMAO!

ecchi · 2005-09-15, 02:17 PM

RE: "we all sinners here!" - Looks like I am more of a sinner than most I'm getting that "Please Re-Read The Rules For Sig Files" message again. I guess I'd better go and see what I did wrong this time!

ecchi · 2005-09-15, 02:26 PM

Fixed it (Guess I'd better learn to count).

ponygirl · 2005-09-15, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SirMoby

If they could spend say 15 to 30 minutes with porn and go on about thier day then they would never complain about it. I think the temptation comes in when they want to spend all day with it.

uh oh...I think I have a problem

MrYum · 2005-09-15, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponygirl

uh oh...I think I have a problem

You and me both!

I'm looking at this stuff like 16+ hours a day |help|

Preacher · 2005-09-15, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrYum

You and me both!

I'm looking at this stuff like 16+ hours a day |help|

LOL,

but seriously, as anyone who has spent any time as a bench tech can tell you, the percentage of porn on computers is much higher then 70%!

-Preacher

ecchi · 2005-09-15, 07:09 PM

I read somewhere that men think about sex about once every fifteen minutes. That worried me.

It means I'm sexually backward.

By about six minutes.

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2005-09-14, 07:10 PM	#3
tickler If there is nobody out there, that's a lot of real estate going to waste! Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,177	To my way of thinking, this kind of information will make some pretty good ammunition for lawyers. If you want community standards? How about over 70% of people surf for porn. And it is hard data, not something that some politician pulls out of his backside. __________________ Latina Twins, Solo, NN, Hardcore Latin Teen Cash

2005-09-14, 10:48 PM	#4
Halfdeck You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 985	I think it's do as I say, not as I do kind of deal. The same people who go on and on in public about how harmful porn is will go home and surf for porn for hours when they think no one is looking. Anyway, think of cigarette smokers addicted to a pack a day advocating against smoking, that doesn't seem too strange to me. And then you'll realize its not strange to hear people who surf porn every day tell you porn is evil. __________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

2005-09-15, 07:20 AM	#8
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2005-09-14, 03:58 PM	#2
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	My personal guess is that it is people in the industry. "Forbidden fruit" sells a lot better than legal porn. Take the UK for example, when all but the softest of softcore was illegal over here, softcore video tapes sold at about the equivalent of $80, and hardcore videos went for close on the equivalent of $200. Now it is legal, you can pay up to about the equivalent of $50 for hardcore videos and DVDs, but if you look around you can get them for about $10 to $20. Softcore goes for even less (often under $2 on video). A lot of smaller dealers would love to see hardcore banned again. I myself was lucky. In the early 80's you could sell almost anything on video, but somewhere around 1982/3 they passed a law so that video was covered in the same way as everything else. To give shops with large stocks of videos time to get rid of what they already had, the law did not make selling the tapes illegal until 1984, and even then there was a further two years for most films (it was a complicated law). As soon as the law was passed shops and wholesalers started selling off old stock cheaply to get rid of it. I started buying up porn, horror, and martial arts films (the ones that were going to get hardest hit by the ban). Then I resold them at markets, advertising them as "soon to be unavailable" and charged ridiculously high prices for the tapes. People purchased them by the bucket load at many times the price I paid for them, and long before the law finally came into force I was able to get into the legitimate video business. Now the law has got a lot more lax over here, it is interesting to see films that were illegal over 15 years suddenly reappearing again. And selling for a lot less than I used to charge for them two decades ago.

2005-09-15, 05:09 AM	#5
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Porn is evil. Everyone on this board *will* go to hell.

2005-09-15, 01:11 PM	#9
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	RE - "as long we're not killers!" We're not ? Oh shit, I think I must be in the wrong place.

2005-09-15, 02:10 PM	#10
Beachbum Shut up brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 118	Porn drives the internet! I mean cmon without it what else ya need it for, a book report? LMAO!

2005-09-15, 02:17 PM	#11
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	RE: "we all sinners here!" - Looks like I am more of a sinner than most I'm getting that "Please Re-Read The Rules For Sig Files" message again. I guess I'd better go and see what I did wrong this time!

2005-09-15, 02:26 PM	#12
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Fixed it (Guess I'd better learn to count).

2005-09-15, 07:09 PM	#16
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	I read somewhere that men think about sex about once every fifteen minutes. That worried me. It means I'm sexually backward. By about six minutes.