[Nets-seminars] Talk this Friday 13th 16:00 GS/102

[Richard G. Clegg]

This Friday's talk is by Gareth from QMUL -- it's a chance to hear work 
related to his IMC paper.  This is the last seminar for our group this 
term.  Hope to see you all there.

Gareth Tyson (QMUL) -- Demystifying Porn 2.0: A look into a Major Adult 
Video Streaming Website

The Internet has evolved into a huge video delivery infrastructure, with 
websites such as YouTube and Netflix appearing at the top of most 
traffic measurement studies. However, most traffic studies have largely 
kept silent about an area of the Internet that (even today) is poorly 
understood: adult media distribution. Whereas ten years ago, such 
services were provided primarily via peer-to-peer file sharing and 
bespoke websites, recently these have converged towards what is known as 
``Porn 2.0''. These popular web portals allow users to upload, view, 
rate and comment videos for free. Despite this, we still lack even a 
basic understanding of how users interact with these services. This 
presentation explores the space, detailing the first large-scale 
measurement study of one of the most popular Porn 2.0 websites: YouPorn. 
The website has been repeatedly crawled to collect statistics about 183k 
videos, witnessing over 60 billion views. Through this, the presentation 
offers one of the first characterisations of this type of corpus, 
highlighting the nature of YouPorn's repository, including video 
popularity trends and the importance of content categories.

Bio:

Gareth Tyson works at Queen Mary, University of London as a Senior 
Research Associate in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer 
Science. Prior to this, he worked as a Research Associate at King's 
College London and at Lancaster University, where he also completed a 
PhD in networking and distributed systems. He has previously worked on 
the European FP-6 Network of Excellence CONTENT and the European FP-7 
project INTERSECTION.  His research interests centre on intelligent and 
adaptive networked systems, particularly in the context of content 
distribution.

-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/

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