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
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.