The Inquirer has gone to CES 2005 and in its usual cavalier fashion thought the most pressing matter to report on was “pr0n”. That being said, it does make quite a case. “Juniper expects the market for mobile adult content to be worth a little over $500m this year, growing to four times that by 2009.” They do correct a fairly ridiculous statement from the show guide: “The Internext show guide introduces the talk as saying that “adult content for mobile phones is widely tipped to be the catalyst that drives the acceptance of mobile entertainment‘. The Juniper paper, however, paints a slightly different picture. The paper’s author, Dr Windsor Holden, states that ‘we do not believe that the adult sector will be mobile’s ‘killer app”. It was also pointed out by Juniper that “many countries – such as in the Middle East – still incredibly anti-pornography”. The US should be included in the list, considering the trepidation that its carriers have to offering adult content on their service.
An example of why is the Salt Lake Tribune which ran a story titled Cell phones are becoming portable porn purveyors about the possibility of viewing nude people on your handset. ”We would certainly want to discourage the major cell phone players from distributing obscene material,” said Pat McGrath, spokesman for New York-based Morality in Media. ”But I would say right now Internet pornography is the 800-pound gorilla. ”Of course cell phone distribution might be the infant gorilla that could grow up to be that big,” McGrath added. ”So it certainly bears watching.”
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