The following is an unedited press release distributed by Send2Press Newswire from Solid Oak Software, Inc.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — With the release of the new video capable iPod, pornography purveyors are already eyeing a lucrative new market. What may become known as PodPorn or PornCasts will be the next challenge to publishers of Internet content filtering software. Solid Oak Software, Inc., publishers of the popular CYBERsitter Internet filter has already begun research on the mechanics of filtering the coming onslaught of adult oriented video content for the iPod.
Brian Milburn, president of Solid Oak Software, and the original developer of CYBERsitter loves the iPod. He has four of his own, gives them as gifts to friends and family and is eagerly awaiting delivery of his new, shiny black, video capable iPod. Milburn also knows how pornography purveyors do business.
“Gone are the days when little Johnny would steal his dads’ Playboy and share it with the other kids behind the dumpster during recess. Now they will be showing full color, stereo, high definition porn clips,” says Milburn.
According to Milburn, the immense success of the Internet has largely been driven by pornography as were the BetaMax and VHS home video players years before. Making adult content easily available has been the genesis of many technologies. In fact, the early uses of GIF and JPG file formats were primarily by publishers of adult content that posted their efforts on early bulletin board systems and services such as CompuServe, Genie and Delphi. That in turn drove sales of VGA color monitors, hard drives, scanners, and modems.
Marketing executives for hardware manufacturers all know that pornography has been, and still is responsible for a substantial portion of their revenues. “I wouldn’t expect that Apple is any different,” says Milburn. “I would be surprised if they are not counting on adult content to contribute to the demand for their product to some degree.”
Illegal music downloading is what created the demand for products like the iPod. Consumers wanted a way to take their music with them, and companies like Apple responded in a big way. While it will never make the headlines like illegal music downloading has, PodPorn will be a new hot market. “You have to ask yourself whether little Johnny would rather download the latest episode of ‘Desperate Housewives,’ or a steamy adult video,” says Milburn.
After 15 years in computer security and Internet content management, he is pretty sure he knows the answer and vows CYBERsitter will be ahead of the curve. He expects that peer to peer file sharing services, popular with teenagers, will soon adapt to meet the demand for PodPorn.
“The handwriting is on the wall,” says Milburn, “Come Christmas morning when hundreds of thousands of ‘Little Johnnys’ find a new video iPod under the tree, they will already know where to get the porn to put on it.”
More information: http://www.cybersitter.com
Source: Send2Press Newswire.
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Solid Oak Software’s CYBERsitter will works only with Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP. Accordingly, it’s hardly a huge surprise that Brian Milburn, president of Solid Oak Software, feels comfortable enough to state via press release, “I wouldn’t expect that Apple is any different. I would be surprised if they are not counting on adult content to contribute to the demand for their product to some degree.”
Well, what do you think of that? What does Apple think of that statement?
Now, there’s no question that if a device can display stills or play video and/or audio that porn will find a way onto devices that are purchased in large numbers. It would be great if there was a solid way to protect minors from adult content. But, how desperate for business do you have to be to issue a press release like this? And to insinuate that Apple is counting on porn to help iPod demand? As if iPod demand needs any additional help, but that’s beside the point.
So, thanks so much for the sleazy press release Solid Oak. Solid Oak. Hey, that’s funny! Anyway, we’re so glad to know that you’re working on research and have absolutely nothing else to offer today except a handful of scare tactics and innuendo. Let us know when you can get your crapware working on a real platform and if you ever hire anyone who possesses even a modicum of class, so we can happily continue ignore you and your products forever.
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Podfather: iPod porn is going to be huge – October 14, 2005
if/when I get a iPod video there will indeed be porn on it
of course it will drive sales
Apple did include an XML explicit tag for podcasts, but the thought of sitting next to someone on a train or plane who is perusing porn on his iPod while his cell phone in his pocket rings on vibrate – eew!
If the kiddies don’t get the porn themselves, I’m gonna show ’em myself. Hang out at the mall and show them kiddies some hardcore action.
Yeah
Anyone who views porn is scum, plain and simple. Bragging about it just makes it that much sadder. Porn watchers better pray there isn’t a God. It’s sad that the iPod will be party to the sick perversion. If Apple even hints this is a market they want, I’m going back to windows. That’s how disgusted I’ll be.
iCrystal, you’re kidding, right?
When I came over here years and years ago we wanted to escape the tyranny of England and we did not want to watch that dirty dirty pod porn (yes they had it back then) I am outraged about this!!!
iCrystal — That’s hot.
Oh for a world without porn, eh Crystal.
Porn doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It didn’t come about because of VHS or 8mm.
There will be porn for the iPod, just as there is print porn.
mw NATURE
Porn on an iPod. It’s the NATURE of the beast. Get over it and enjoy some yourself.
Actually iCrystal, viewing porn is often recommended by sex therapists as instructional or therapeutic for couples (married or otherwise). It is sometimes a good way to spark an intimate relationship. Just because you are too uptight being raised in the bible belt doesn’t give you the right to judge others.
Of course there’s good porn and bad porn and it certainly isn’t for children. But between consenting adults, it’s not a bad thing. I’m sure God would agree. After all, he/she invented it…..
Look out iCrystal is back with their extremely conservative views!
Rock on dude! Spread *your* gospel all over to the people who didn’t descend from apes, and are still living on a flat world in the center of the universe praying to their God for deliverance (coz you know, it’s different to my God, and everyone else’s who doesn’t believe in yours.)
By the way, you can choose not to watch it, and you can choose not to buy it, but why should you decide what others can and can’t do in the privacy of their own homes (providing it’s not harmful to themselves or others?)
Is there ANY proof whatsoever that porn is harmful in a large way? Any more harmful than say, oh I don’t know, guns for example??
These writings to not necessarily express the opinions of the author.
ANY device that can play back multimedia can play back adult content, whether it be PocketPC, Palm, PSP or iPod Video. the only thing stopping me from putting a naughty movie on an SD card and playing it back on my handheld is my choice not to.
this is pure FUD. if you block adult content at the computer level, how would a kid get the stuff on his/her iPod anyway?
MDN: “police,” as in, “Thank you yet again, Thought Police, for clearing more roadblocks to a sterile, prudish, hyper-conservative future.”
i’ll conclude this with a comment overheard by a friend the other day: “If God didn’t want us to touch ourselves, he or she would have made our arms shorter.”
LOL
> Anyone who views porn is scum, plain and simple.
Oy. And you probably think Ashcroft was justified in covering up “Lady Liberty’s” exposed breast because it was obscene… right? I’m a politically conserved individual… and comments such as yours… disgust me.
> Bragging about it just makes it that much sadder.
The only thing sad (and pathetic) is the socially backwards, sexually repressed mindset you’ve adopted for yourself.
> Porn watchers better pray there isn’t a God.
Let’s examine that statement… “pray” there isn’t a “God.” If there isn’t a God, who would these “porn watchers” be praying to? You twit.
And what does God and religion have to do with this? Its only the extremist, puritanical mindset that finds sex and sexual matters “dirty” and/or sinful.
> It’s sad that the iPod will be party to the sick perversion.
And iPod Nano wrapped in a condom and lubed up… that would be a perversion. An iPod with the latest AVN winners on it… is cool… and entertaining.
> If Apple even hints this is a market they want, I’m going back to windows.
Because, of course, Windows is such a lily white and pure environment, right?
> That’s how disgusted I’ll be.
Sounds like you need to get laid.
I’m making sure I get the 60 GB model – I’ll be the hit of every party with my portable 150 hours of porn!!
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There is absolutely nothing that points to Apple promoting pornography in any way.
There is no way to manufacture/sell anything without the possiblity of it being misused, even if the seller is not complicit.
logging trees > Playboy
binoculars > Voyeurism
etc…
But, if they start packaging promotional packages of vaseline with the iPod then it’s time to start complaining. Otherwise, you might as well get rid of television and photos and telephones. And none of that will change the problem of pornography.
BTW, Isn’t it illegal in some states already to show pornography in your car video screens where others may see it?
Sex is Life.
iCrystal
Yeah, go back to Windows, because Im sure that NO ONE on Windows watches porn and I’m sure that Microsoft doesn’t love it that the porn industry is switching their content to WMV in droves.
The problem with people like you is that you feel all too comfortable making broad sweeping judegements of this group or that group.
porn is gonna decide who wins the hd-dvd/bule-ray race too.
you gotta love the uptight brainwashed jesus freaks that hate their body and think sex is pure EVIL.
I’ve already got my porn videos loaded up in iTunes 6.
And who cares if there is a God or not? If iCrystal’s God would judge me negatively for watching porn then he isn’t someone I want to spend an eternity with anyway. The Christian vision of heaven is my idea of hell.
Hey “Not a fanatic”:
The funny thing is you think everyone reading this is NOT a conservative and doesn’t believe in God.
Here is one problem: The more available porn is, the more likely kids see it. What age would you like your kids (if you have any) to begin viewing others having sex?
If you have a daughter, do you want her hanging out with guys her age saturated with porn for their idea of what sex should be and how available it should be?
Dobson, is that you?
Focus on your own damn family!
Jesus freaks love the gifts that God has given them – sex being one of the best. But their is something spiritual about sex too, and the only lasting fullfilment in sex is with the one you are spiritually married to.
That’s how we were made. It’s not a drag… it’s killer.
Sex by itself never fills what’s missing in our lives. It’s just part of the bigger picture, and an example of how much God loves us. He could have made sex as much fun as scrubbing pots, but he didn’t.
I feel sorry for all you perverts on Judgement Day. As a Mormon, I believe that pornography is deviant behavior and you will be judged accordingly. God bless all of you.
I wank it to mommy’s used skivvys, ya dig
iCrystal….
Should have figured you would be a F*cking moron… i mean mormon. 10/1 odds that she is from Utah… not that Utah is bad…. except for the f*cking mormons.
To see what the morons… woops, sorry, mormons have done… lets look at Utah a little closer. Watch the video at this link and read the story.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/230805utahrave.htm
The Dude abides
If “Little Johnny” is smart enough to download porn to his iPod, he is probably smart enough to bypass cybersitter.
But then again, cybersitter only runs on Windows, so I guess he isn’t that smart.
Never mind.
Funny and silly American people…
Mom?
I’m a lesbian. Sorry. Am I going to hell?
Damn it, iCrystal! Husband Osirius Mahagganones told us not to be using the type box to go on that evil enternet! Watch it, lest he draw and quarter us! Now get inside and help 3rd In Law Sister/Wife churn some butter!
We will need to get our alcohol permits for the christening of our 24th son this weekend! Yippee!
Yeah…LOL..Gay Porn….
Twinks
The Dude:
I’m not a Mormon – but I looked at the video you referenced… give me a break. That was so much tamer than the parties that got shut down when I was in high school.
True, SLC is a strange place, but the skiing is awesome.
More ammo for Islam.
citizenXXX, It’s the NATURE of the beast. Get over it and enjoy some yourself.
You said it. It’s the beast in you. It’s where the US is sliding towards–the gutter.
ron,
HUH. Not sure I understand your senseless rant.
The porn industry grosses more money each year than all four pro sports leagues combined. And we all know how obsessed Americans are with sports. Do the math, as they say.
You wouldn’t, you’re brain is lower than your waist, if you think porn is acceptable.
For those of you interested in Mormonism and the Porn Industry, nothing is better than the movie Orgazmo. Hysterical. I was at the Sundance Film Festival when it was shown there in 1999, and dumbass Mormons were protesting.
As a former Utah resident, there is no more pathetic culture than the Mormons. But gee, do we really need to go so far off-topic.
It really doesn’t matter what the medium is, the porn industry will find a way to make money with it. But I’m not sure I’d find watching porn on a 2″ screen to be all that appealing.
By the way, Marriott Hotels are owned by Mormons, and let’s guess at the profitability of PPV Pornography in the rooms. I believe I’ve read that it is what makes certain hotel properties very profitable. The SLC Marriott, just blocks from the Worldwide HQ of the Mormon Cult, has some great porno channels.
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iCrystal, you are one odd woman. You probably should invest in some porn, since you have to share your husband’s services with 10 other wives.
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ron,
What ever your problem is you need to get over it.
You know nothing of my brain. What, may I ask, does “if you think porn is acceptable” mean.
I’m really not sure why your small mind chooses to criticize me.
Sheesh.
mormons are freaks.
Citizenxxx–I’m sorry that you don’t understand English.
Words mean things—Rush L.
“Anyone who views porn is scum, plain and simple. Bragging about it just makes it that much sadder. Porn watchers better pray there isn’t a God. It’s sad that the iPod will be party to the sick perversion. If Apple even hints this is a market they want, I’m going back to windows. That’s how disgusted I’ll be.”
One – we all know that there is no porn on Windows so that real good thinking ICrystal.
Two – It’s fair to say that ICrystal is the last person that most would think is qualified to pass judgement on others. The reasons are self-evident.
Say ICrystal – burned any books lately?
<< It would be great if there was a solid way to protect minors from adult content.>>
There is a way but our Congress killed it. Yep, they killed it. Afraid that their constituents might see approval of a web category as approval of porn, our brave leaders shot down a proposal to create a porn web category ala .com, .edu. .gov, .net etc. The new domain would have been designated .adu, and any site that distributed, promoted, referred to, or otherwise engaged in any activity linked to pornagraphy over the internet would have been required to change all of their domain names to http://www.xxxxx.adu.
Now how complex of a filter do you think is required to stop anything originating at http://www.xxxxx.adu?
< So, thanks so much for the sleazy press release Solid Oak. Solid Oak. Hey, that’s funny! Anyway, we’re so glad to know that you’re working on research and have absolutely nothing else to offer today except a handful of scare tactics and innuendo. Let us know when you can get your crapware working on a real platform and if you ever hire anyone who possesses even a modicum of class, so we can happily continue ignore you and your products forever.
>
Why the angst? Its going to happen. Porn is the #1 revenue producer on the web. Always has been, always will be. Getting angry at Solid Oak isn’t going to slow the use of ANY iPod for viewing porn.
ron,
I do understand english. You didn’t understand what I was saying, and your remark about rush explains it all.
Understand this.
Fsck you!
Bit of a contrast. Disney on one hand (which is gonna attract the kids lets face it) and porn on the other.
But relax iCrystal. That windows porn, wmv,avi etc wont play on this new iPod.
But what should happen (and you can thank the porn industry for this) is that windows users should start making videos whatever the content into mov,h264 and mp4. That should seriously shake the tree a bit.
He’s right!
The iPod video is going to be great for the Pink Pocket Pool Pod Porn Pervert.
“Now they will be showing full color, stereo, high definition porn clips,” says Milburn”
They won’t be showing “high-definition” anything, let alone porn, on the screen of a video iPod.
As the old sayong goes, “Better to remain silent, yada-yada-yada.”
Please post again, cutie! The way you say “sick perversion” makes me wet!
The day will come for the 2.99 porn for iPods you can bet your bottom dollar. It will also come for the independent film, training videos, instructional videos, little league videos, events, etc.
Imagine you are a television production class and your class project is a hit. Why not put it on ITMS and sell it for 1.99. Why can’t a creative person create content to sell. I might like that half hour short that David Byrne did one night. I might just be willing to pay 1.99 for it.
I used to do a lot of training and presentations. I always incorporated video. I really could have used an iPod that did video. I went to some IBM training in 1981 for their PC. They showed 8mm movies. Some of you may recognize the “IBM Coffee Bean”. One day the projector broke and they have a film to show. They sure could have used an iPod with video that day. The spent all day rounding up a projector to show that film. They showed it to us at 5:15. The IBM way.
Now, assuming they didn’t have a computer today, it would be easy enough to replace the iPod and show the film. I actually think this is a very smart move. An iPod that happens to show video.
The community will develop the market for this iPod. Creative people will sell their 15,000 copies at 1.99 apiece and make a bit of money.
Yes porn sellers will make their porn but look at the bigger empowerment picture of this device combined with the ITMS.
Back in the early 80’s (I worked for the Byte Shop up in Seattle from 80 to 85) we used to point to Reds Dream when demoing computers. We used to talk about the future where you clicked on a button and purchased movies, music and other entertainment. We talked about it being cheap like a dollar a song.
We didn’t talk about renting music. We talked about the multitude of “information” that will be at your fingertips. Yours with a click. For a dollar 99.
I would be surprised if this is not the “killer app” for video content.
http://homepage.mac.com/citizenx1/CompuKids/iMovieTheater27.html
See me in CompuKids from 1983 with the link above. I am the black gentleman in the art segment. I controlled the robot “TOPO” from an AppleII.
cirizenXXX–ron,
>I do understand english.>
English comes with a capital ‘E’ . So much for your understanding!
Bless you my child.
I got your child hanging.
Show us your tits. Freak.
This is like arms manufacturers are selling guns that they know will be used to kill innocent people. Oh wait…they do.
Poor iCrystal..sigh.
Look people I support her right to her opinion and beliefs as we all should. Now that does not mean we have to bow down to them or place her values above our own..that would be well silly and sheepish. Nor do I agree with her.
I think in the future iCrystal you would be better offf stating that you are solidly against porn and would not partake yourself and leave it at that. Or perhaps you could expound on your reasons for said but by all means try not to be insulting to others who do not agree with your stance.
Me I’m against anything that abuses women, men and or children. I also realize that at least some porn is a form of abuse since women can be tricked or manipulated perhaps by something as simple as poverty or a drug addiction to get into it. Still on the whole I would like to think that many freely choose it as a viable work option and I have heard of some success stories in the business. Me I only work (normal job..not porn) because I have too myself. So while I do not like the idea of a woman choosing porn because of such things as bills to pay…still many of us do a lot of things we would much rather not do because of bills to pay…I HATE WORK!!!
Pagan jim
Pagan jim– Now that does not mean we have to bow down to them or place her values above our own..
Now what would those ‘values’ be?
The name says it all.–pagan–.
Good job Crystal.
You people are de-sensitized. You must be porno wannabees. Do you guys like the fact that you wifes screw every one of your Friends that comes along? How is that for effect. While you’re at work, your wife is getting a nailed by 3 black guys with 13 inchers.
Porn is distasteful, disgusting, and extremely dangerous to society.
You guys most likely have a (mw)growth on your genitalia.
Re…iCrystal is Correct
I could use some growth in my genitalia….
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Pagan jim
Re: Ron,
You have no idea what my values are (the old judging a book by it’;s cover/name eh?) nor will you until I choose to share them with you. Now until this is no longer a free country I will make that choice not you or yours. Even if this nation decides to give up freedom for the illusion of safety or so called morallity I will still choose to live and die a free man. You can change the laws and you can make us all less free legally but in the end unless each of us as individuals actually give up our freedom you can do no more than take our lives never our freedom. That is and has always been ours to keep, or in the case of cowards to give away.
I never have nor will I ever fear terrorists for in the end they can not take our freedom away. Not yours or mine for that matter. It’s only we who can hand them our freedom and I have not plans to do so. They can kill me..but then again so can the guy down the road who refused to take his medication and flips out one day…so I die. Big whoop. What’s important to me is not how long I live but rather how well I live and if I can’t life free, I would much rather die free.
Pagan jim
You could Pagan.
Okay Braveheart we get the point…
let us remember the real reason VHS beat out Betamax.
and the real reason VideoDiscs failed and DVD’s success.
Pr0n
Sony forbid the use of both BMAX and VideoDisc for pr0n distribution, where VHS and DVD have no content restrictions, which make them more usefull for the largest entertainment Market out there.
(at least the last time I looked at the numbers in 2000)
Porn outsells Hollywood and the traditional publishing industry by a good margin.
If you are a puritan and feel weird about this please follow the example of your friends as far as the iPod is concerned and look the other way.
There is no real discussion here apart from the incessant whiny of people who want their values to be the only one.
Which is the conundrum of America isn’t it.
you want free speech and liberty as long as it is in your perception of “good” and “clean” and “Christian”, which is something more like a puritan autocratic society then a true democracy isn’t it.
The funny thing is the success of pr0n in america is guaranteed by its Taboo nature due to retarded fake Americans pursuing dogmatic quests for the good old days… which never happened, there was just less media accounts of the bad old days.
Re: Im sure,
I am certain I will…for in this case my will is supreme. What about you?
Braveheart…heh heh heh…well I guess it’s better than being a Chicken Hawk or a member of the Sheeple herd.
Pagan jim
It’s hilarious how many people have nothing to do but gripe about porn on an ipod. At least the folks at Solid Oak (ironic name there, don’t you think?) are looking out for the kids and families where their 9 year olds shouldn’t be loading porn into their itunes “library.” I think it’s clear why “online publications” won’t be considered true journalists, either intellectually nor legally, based on the commentary from this site about a product coming to market. It’s not unusual for a software or other computer company — which a demonstrable track record of similar industry leading products – to announce they will be bringing something out in advance of a ship date (e.g., “Vista” comes to mind). Seems odd for a website editor to slam a company for announcing a product, which has good intentions, with what amounts to personal bias. Since News.com is announcing today that, in fact, ipod porn is now available from several porn sites — as predicted by Solid Oak in their release — it’s self-evident the company was predicting a fact now in evidence, and not fear mongering.