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Today's seminar is by Gareth Tyson from QMUL, it begins at 16:00 in
GS/102 in 66-72 Gower Street.<br>
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Demystifying Porn 2.0: A look into a Major Adult Video Streaming
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>Bio:</div>
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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.<br>
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Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.richardclegg.org/">http://www.richardclegg.org/</a>
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