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T1 - Measurements and analysis of a major adult video portal
AU - Tyson, Gareth
AU - El Khatib, Yehia
AU - Sastry, Nishanth
AU - Uhlig, Steve
N1 - © ACM, 2016. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 12, 2, 2016 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2854003
PY - 2016/1
Y1 - 2016/1
N2 - Today the Internet is a large multimedia delivery infrastructure, with websites such as YouTube appearing at the top of most measurement studies. However, most traffic studies have ignored an important domain: adult multimedia distribution. Whereas, traditionally, such services were provided primarily via bespoke websites, recently these have converged towards what is known as "Porn 2.0". These services allow users to upload, view, rate and comment on videos for free (much like YouTube). Despite their scale, we still lack even a basic understanding of their operation This paper addresses this gap by performing a large-scale study of one of the most popular Porn 2.0 websites: YouPorn. Our measurements reveal a global delivery infrastructure that we have repeatedly crawled to collect statistics (on 183k videos). We use this data to characterise the corpus, as well as to inspect popularity trends and and how they relate to other features, e.g., categories and ratings. To explore our discoveries further, we use a small-scale user study, highlighting key system implications.
AB - Today the Internet is a large multimedia delivery infrastructure, with websites such as YouTube appearing at the top of most measurement studies. However, most traffic studies have ignored an important domain: adult multimedia distribution. Whereas, traditionally, such services were provided primarily via bespoke websites, recently these have converged towards what is known as "Porn 2.0". These services allow users to upload, view, rate and comment on videos for free (much like YouTube). Despite their scale, we still lack even a basic understanding of their operation This paper addresses this gap by performing a large-scale study of one of the most popular Porn 2.0 websites: YouPorn. Our measurements reveal a global delivery infrastructure that we have repeatedly crawled to collect statistics (on 183k videos). We use this data to characterise the corpus, as well as to inspect popularity trends and and how they relate to other features, e.g., categories and ratings. To explore our discoveries further, we use a small-scale user study, highlighting key system implications.
KW - User Generated Content
KW - online video portals
KW - multimedia networking
KW - multimedia systems
KW - pornography
KW - Online Social Networking
KW - Online Social Networks
U2 - 10.1145/2854003
DO - 10.1145/2854003
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
JO - ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
JF - ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
SN - 1551-6857
IS - 2
M1 - 35
ER -