New iPod and Adult Content?

Mobile. Video. Porn. It's been a couple of weeks since the last article on the topic, but the subject never dies. It's like a bad rash. This time Technology News writes about the current lack of mobile video content and how pornographers are ready to fill the void.

Yankee Group analyst Mike Goodman said, "The degree to which the adult industry adopts iPod or PSP content is going to be an important factor in how the market grows for mobile video. The porn industry makes new markets -- entirely new markets, time and time again. When they adopt it, that market grows."

Michael Gartenberg at JupiterResearch noted that purveyors of porn were quick to unleash adult content for the new video iPod, and said, "I don't think Apple can do all that much. If a company wants to sell adult entertainment, there's not much Apple can do."

Goodman commented that although Sony or Apple might not publicly endorse the market, they also wouldn't discourage anyone either. Goodman added that mobile video "is one of those markets that is black and white. It is either going to be very successful, or it's going to die, but it will take two to three years to figure out where it's going to go. Porn is going to be a very important factor, because porn makes markets."