TY - GEN
T1 - Demystifying porn 2.0
T2 - 13th ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2013
AU - Tyson, Gareth
AU - Elkhatib, Yehia
AU - Sastry, Nishanth
AU - Uhlig, Steve
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The Internet has evolved into a huge video delivery infrastructure, with websites such as YouTube and Netflix appearing at the top of most traffic measurement studies. However, most traffic studies have largely kept silent about an area of the Internet that (even today) is poorly understood: adult media distribution. Whereas ten years ago, such services were provided primarily via peer-to-peer file sharing and bespoke websites, recently these have converged towards what is known as "Porn 2.0". These popular web portals allow users to upload, view, rate and comment videos for free. Despite this, we still lack even a basic understanding of how users interact with these services. This paper seeks to address this gap by performing the first large-scale measurement study of one of the most popular Porn 2.0 websites: YouPorn. We have repeatedly crawled the website to collect statistics about 183k videos, witnessing over 60 billion views. Through this, we offer the first characterisation of this type of corpus, highlighting the nature of YouPorn's repository. We also inspect the popularity of objects and how they relate to other features such as the categories to which they belong. We find evidence for a high level of flexibility in the interests of its user base, manifested in the extremely rapid decay of content popularity over time, as well as high susceptibility to browsing order. Using a small-scale user study, we validate some of our findings and explore the infrastructure design and management implications of our observations.
AB - The Internet has evolved into a huge video delivery infrastructure, with websites such as YouTube and Netflix appearing at the top of most traffic measurement studies. However, most traffic studies have largely kept silent about an area of the Internet that (even today) is poorly understood: adult media distribution. Whereas ten years ago, such services were provided primarily via peer-to-peer file sharing and bespoke websites, recently these have converged towards what is known as "Porn 2.0". These popular web portals allow users to upload, view, rate and comment videos for free. Despite this, we still lack even a basic understanding of how users interact with these services. This paper seeks to address this gap by performing the first large-scale measurement study of one of the most popular Porn 2.0 websites: YouPorn. We have repeatedly crawled the website to collect statistics about 183k videos, witnessing over 60 billion views. Through this, we offer the first characterisation of this type of corpus, highlighting the nature of YouPorn's repository. We also inspect the popularity of objects and how they relate to other features such as the categories to which they belong. We find evidence for a high level of flexibility in the interests of its user base, manifested in the extremely rapid decay of content popularity over time, as well as high susceptibility to browsing order. Using a small-scale user study, we validate some of our findings and explore the infrastructure design and management implications of our observations.
KW - Adult websites
KW - Measurements
KW - Porn 2.0
KW - Video streaming
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84890056090
U2 - 10.1145/2504730.2504739
DO - 10.1145/2504730.2504739
M3 - Conference Paper published in a book
AN - SCOPUS:84890056090
SN - 9781450319539
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC
SP - 417
EP - 426
BT - IMC 2013 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Internet Measurement Conference
Y2 - 23 October 2013 through 25 October 2013
ER -