Hello,
It's only a matter of time before we'll see it on our mobile phones.
cheers,
---eric
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EUROPEAN ISPs TURN TO PORN FOR PROFITS
Cash-strapped European ISPs are branding their own adult content,
aiming
for the tried-and-true profits found in pornography and sex-related
products. "What's triggering the move towards (adult content) is the
steady
revenue streams it generates. Sex sells," says Yankee Group European
Internet strategies director Scott Smith. Freenet.de, Germany's No. 2
ISP,
is preparing a mid-August launch of Fundorado.de, a site hawking
hardcore
videos, photos and sex chat rooms for about $8 a month. And on Monday,
Freenet.de's biggest domestic rival T-Online announced it was teaming
up
with Barcelona-based Private Media Group to break into the adult
content
business, while last month, GMX.de -- a German free e-mail service --
said
it would develop a similar venture. Meanwhile in the UK, struggling
e-tailer Lastminute.com quietly introduced an auction specializing in
sex
toys last week. "The old revenue stream was click-throughs and
e-commerce.
Companies are being urged to develop new business models to convince
investors there is value in an ISP or portal business," says Kai
Kaufman,
an analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in London. A recent
study by
Netvalue indicated that 33% of German Internet users regularly access
adult
sites, and a 1998 Datamonitor report predicted that Internet
pornography
would represent a $2.8-billion business by 2003. (Reuters 7 Aug 2001)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2092680,00.html
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