Anyone who knows how online business works can tell you that adult entertainment drives much of the technical innovation, but it appears to be throwing up problems too after mobile porn users have started getting a little greedy.
The issue is rearing its ugly head in Japan, where unlimited phone data plans have seen networks struggle to deal with the sheer volume of horny, porny traffic.
Mobile the way to go
Aware of the groaning data pipes, Bloomberg took the time to speak to some users, including a 32-year-old travel agent who spoke lovingly of his phone: "A mobile is far handier than a computer for Internet access - I seldom use a PC outside the office."
As a result, the mobile operators have had to cap some late-night movie downloaders, even though they are supposed to be on flat-rate data plans.
Millions monthly
On the other side of the fence, the adult-movie makers are raking in money from new fans on mobile phones.
One company told Bloomberg its mobile site is pulling down around ¥15 million (£100,000) a month, mainly through membership fees.
Growth forecast
Soft On Demand's mobile chief explained: "We see the mobile phone as potentially a huge market. Fixed-rate data plans, faster internet access and sophisticated handsets are contributing to that growth."
Clearly, unless the networks work out how to handle the traffic, someone's going to end up frustrated. 4G, anyone?
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twistedtalent
July 18th 2010
4. Our site http://wap.twistedtalent.com has been seeing an imcrease in traffic since the way mobile is evolving but it's actually to easy to blame porn on bandwidth hogging. Why not blame the like of Live streaming TV etc.
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mobile_porn
January 25th 2010
3. The problem with Android devices are that they have many restrictions as to what video formats they can stream. We had this issue while working on making a compatible mobile adult video site.
So far the best mobile device to stream movies (porn or not), is the iPod or the iPhone (WiFi) :)
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dg069
July 25th 2009
2. Own a couple of mobile porn sites and I must say that our main site has been seeing a dramatic increase as more smartphones are released. With that said, our main mobile porn directory, myiplayground.com, is getting more and more targeted traffic.
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cherie_g
July 13th 2009
1. Mobile networks will have to evolve as Internet providers have in terms of bandwidth as porn is here to stay.
~Cherie
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http://twitter.com/pocketporn
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