Just how many people surf porn sites?
Engineers know: they know everything these days...
At peak time, YouPorn serves 4000 pages per second, equating to burst traffic in the region of 100 gigabytes per second, or 800Gbps.
To put that 800Gbps figure into perspective, the internet only handles around half an exabyte of traffic every day, which equates to around 50Tbps — in other words, a single porn site accounts for almost 2% of the internet’s total traffic. There are dozens of porn sites on the scale of YouPorn, and hundreds that are the size of ExtremeTech or your favorite news site. It’s probably not unrealistic to say that porn makes up 30% of the total data transferred across the internet.
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Wait, I thought the porn viewer statistic were grossly inflated. I'm confused!s
I maintained and continue to maintain that the stated sales figures and profits from porn DVDs were grotesquely inflated.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with that.
Part of new aesthetic thinking has to do with being able to understand the difference between going to a sex shop to buy something and watching something on line....
Since you have no actual evidence to support your position of choice on sales, and there is actual data indicating a high level of interest in such material, I will reserve judgment.
It has been explained to me that the world has ALWAYS been full of the 'ahem' curious...
Who knew?
Given the reactions of a number of people with whom I have discussed this, I now believe that 'prude' should be a protected sexual orientation.
People savvier than I know about Rule 34 (the subject of the latest Charlie Stross novel):
If it exists there is porn of it -- no exceptions.
Netflix takes up 32.7% of internet bandwidth.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/27/tech/web/netflix-internet-bandwith-mashable/index.html
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