Japan’s Unlimited 3G Data Plans Overwhelmed By Pornhounds
Apparently, Japanese carriers KDDI and DoCoMo are being totally overwhelmed by porn downloaders on their 3G networks. I don’t know what they expected to happen when porn services started offering movies for wireless download.
The porn aficionados, or Jason Chens as they’re known in the States, are causing the Japanese online porn industry to grow at 1,000 new customers a day with some people paying up to $US105 to get on board.
Consider this a peek into the near future here in the US. When more people get phones with data plans that are able to download video, the exact same thing will happen here, just with less mosiacs and cartoons. People love their porn, after all. [Bloomberg via The Register]
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I try to avoid that sort of thing on my iPhone
@rabbibert:That is disgusting. Thanks for that info. Now anyone on Gizmodo will easily be able to spot me out in public : the black guy with the shaved head who keeps his hands taped together at the wrist while incessantly dodging anything that requires the caressing of fingers. Awesome.
GET YOUR SEMEN OFF ME!
@TheSonOfKrypton:At a big video chain here in Japan, there is a sign in front of the adult section warning of "substances" that might be on the DVD cases.
@TheSonOfKrypton: This pretty much embodies the phrase "Ignorance is bliss"
redman042
@fleebailey33:
I'm pretty sure that will be the best story I'll hear this week.
@Hello Mister Walrus: Yeah just make sures he's got a mop and bucket..
@Dr. Evil Genius: because I have a 16g chip and an unlimited data plan.
That, and I'm pervect.
Sicpup
@TheSonOfKrypton:well hopefully they don't shake hands they "BOW", cuz, they kinda don't like to be touched anyway
AXSLV2
@TheSonOfKrypton:
This must be why they bow instead of shaking hands.
kps9727
Heh. I'd think KDDI would be better at coverage and capacity, them being CDMA and all...
I,l never have jizz on my hands while the office has those nice curtains
fastmike
@Dr. Evil Genius: You would be guessing right ;)
Kakkoister
@dsh: I didn't want to laugh but I had to.
@Kakkoister: ...am I to guess there is a pun here? LoL
@EBone: I love Japan... Why shouldn't Japan love porn? The women are so damned gorgeous. I know that's my opinion but I can't see anyone refuting that statement.
@Skeetz: LMAO
@Sicpup: ...how do you know that?
@TheSonOfKrypton: Well, that's why bowing is customary in Japan. Keep it to that or walk around with a vat of Purel.
One time working at compusa, A guy came in and bought a computer, He was very blunt and stated he just wanted to watch porn on a computer that his wife and kids were not using. At least he was honest.
And jeeez, what if flash came out? no pun intended
fleebailey33
...I want unlimited data plans too. In Sweden, the few plans that are unlimited (...I think there are like two?) are MAD expensive. (Think 80 bucks a month).
I won't use it for porn. Promise!
@Scotland: Oh. My. God.
Thanks for the link, Scotland, here posted (hopefully) for all to see directly. And again I say...
Oh. My. God.
@TheSonOfKrypton: By that same advice, never touch hand rails on stairs or escalators, or door knobs. People have checked out what is on those things and there's trace amounts of urine(obviously) and semen. In a kind of messed up way, unless you live in a bubble you've probably got semen on you.
rabbibert
Porn + iPhone movement sensor = OMG
Zoolook
I have no desire to borrow a japanese man's phone now, even in dire emergency.
Leonce
So now, instead of quiet cars on trains, we'll get...
Oh my.
Jeb_Hoge
@bosskev:
Seeing as how he is an amateur, I would suggest that you start him off with the "training kit" before moving on to "A newspaper? Your jacket? The flowing dress of the fat lady sitting next to you?"
Scotland
Lesson to be learned here people: Never, EVER shake ANY GUYS HAND in Japan. EVER! You don't know where that hand has been in the last 5 minutes! The sperm will get you if you let it!
@tande04 mile island in the sun: Getting online, and now: getting off(line)
@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: I have the stupidest grin on my face right now, hahahahahaha.
psst... you can already do that now with a decent winmo phone and a high-caacity chip.
Sicpup
@Lite: is on a boat.: When they could get hot streaming porn on their iPhone.
@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Now all we need is a Peter North Luigi photo shoot.
Hello Mister Walrus
Now you gotta be careful what you cram into your pants Jason. You might run the risk of exceeding your available waistbandwidth....
@Pew Pew BOOM: Honestly, probably just because you can.
HAZman27
@sonicsurge: With so many privacy solutions readily available you have to ask? A newspaper? Your jacket? The flowing dress of the fat lady sitting next to you? Duh.
*grumbles*
*more damned amateurs*
@fleebailey33: Not me. They love them some porn in Japan.
@sonicsurge: I want to make a hiroshima sized liquid explosion joke but that would be in poor taste..
Skeetz
@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Interesting... Damn, this makes so much sense to me now.
Pew Pew BOOM
@PaddyDugan: "Most porn movies are way too gay for straight people, IMHO."
So...then you're saying that most are good? I'd have to agree and give your comment two fingers up!
@PaddyDugan: It's ah-meee-ah Ron-ah Jeremy-ah.
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
@Pew Pew BOOM: Apparently you're not married or not for very long at least.. :))
Entaum
@Pew Pew BOOM: Same reason you need porn if you have a girlfriend, you just do!
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
@bosskev: What if he commutes by... god forbid, public transportation?
@Pew Pew BOOM: You don't get it? Sounds like you are a prime candidate for porn on the go.
kirby822
@iEro-Sennin: "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"
"Hon, give them your cell phone so they can watch porn and STFU."
Pew Pew BOOM
@Pew Pew BOOM: Many people in Japan use their phone exclusively for getting online.
@Lite: is on a boat.: So they watch those porns in which they either have sex or harass women on trains? Okay, I get it now.
Pew Pew BOOM
@Lite: is on a boat.:
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That's so cool that you used the ugly guy that the porn movies feature for the picture instead of some bosomy chick. Most porn movies are way too gay for straight people, IMHO.
PaddyDugan
@Pew Pew BOOM:
Family road trips and such.
iEro-Sennin
@deliciousburglar: Yes? And do you really need both hands on the steering wheel? Amateur indeed.
@Pew Pew BOOM: Lots of time spent commuting on trains.
When did Gizmodo relocate to Japan?
i love porn, but this news surprises me still. i would never have considered downloading porn to a mobile device.
maybe i'm amateur, but when i think of downloads and mobile devices, i think of stuff to do on the commute.
deliciousburglar
Damn Chen! You gonna take that?
It's Japan, Is anyone surprised?
fleebailey33
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_uj89z65cY
Well at least in Japan it's not the ISP's doing the shafting.
Kakkoister
Why would you need porn on the go? I don't get it.
Pew Pew BOOM