[Nets-seminars] Talk, today, 13th December, 16:00
Richard G. Clegg
richard at richardclegg.org
Fri Dec 13 12:21:12 GMT 2013
Today's seminar is by Gareth Tyson from QMUL, it begins at 16:00 in
GS/102 in 66-72 Gower Street.
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.
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Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/
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