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1. Tits & Bits - pr0n 2.0
Matt Peterson
matt@videobox.com Jokingly offered to present to h1kari and he accepted, id #1 Jokingly offered to present to h1kari and he accepted, id #1
2. Work ethic is amusing in this industry, a lot of deals are built around message board personalities and/or hotel parties - 10s of thousands of dollar deals
People will sell their .signature as an ad within message boards
PASS around magazines
Enterprise or even burnt out VC/start-up folks are entering this space, this is my first adult employer
Loosing money in the late 90s during the “gold rush” days of pr0n is kinda laughable
The biggest problem w/ DRM being tech support, not the actual implementation or politicsWork ethic is amusing in this industry, a lot of deals are built around message board personalities and/or hotel parties - 10s of thousands of dollar deals
People will sell their .signature as an ad within message boards
PASS around magazines
Enterprise or even burnt out VC/start-up folks are entering this space, this is my first adult employer
Loosing money in the late 90s during the “gold rush” days of pr0n is kinda laughable
The biggest problem w/ DRM being tech support, not the actual implementation or politics
3. Weird ecosystem of gallery pages, search engines, affiliates, member areas, etc that all command different "traffic deals" in terms of banner ad's, "consoles" (pop-up's), revenue share, etc
Blacklist of terms for search engine G & Y seem to change weekly, hard to find broker, internal politics
US title § 2257 is a mixed blessing
A tier-1 ISP went though every "teen" title we had on a conf call to approve us
Automatically excluded for bestiality, some hentai, etc
Hardcore (insex.com) hosted in Netherlands Industry cont. TGP’s; sites like PersianKitty and other “password” sites are now gallery and/or review sites, think Tom’s Hardware Guide - but for pr0n; freeone’s being a great example
Not shocking, search engine Y is more hip to adult ad’s, but still has huge internal politics - basic SEO tricks still work, like a DMOZ or Open Directory entry
Ironically, content produced prior to November 1st, 1990 are now highly prized, original stars are buying back the rights to these films
AS174 is very hip to adult content, classic US tier 1’s not so muchTGP’s; sites like PersianKitty and other “password” sites are now gallery and/or review sites, think Tom’s Hardware Guide - but for pr0n; freeone’s being a great example
Not shocking, search engine Y is more hip to adult ad’s, but still has huge internal politics - basic SEO tricks still work, like a DMOZ or Open Directory entry
Ironically, content produced prior to November 1st, 1990 are now highly prized, original stars are buying back the rights to these films
AS174 is very hip to adult content, classic US tier 1’s not so much
4. Biz model is vertical, our brand(s), our technology, our network, our own self inflected problems
Alexa: 1962 ranking, Netcraft: 3264
Technology focused, preferred to make money from day 1, thus choice of adult content vs. user-generated or other Google-bait
Indirect competitors in VOD: HotMovies, AEBN
30 video download req/sec
Add ~3Tb of content each month
License content directly from studios, no on-site shooting
ping ioerror for juicy day job details @ kink.com
We're small compared to adult hosting companies
FlyingCroc/Accretive = SexTracker; Jupiter Hosting = GFY
DTI, ISPrime, Choopa, CWIE, NationalNet, etc - again, all of em >5-40Gb/s (years before MySpace or YouTube showed up on the scene)
For some mainstream comparison: YouTube >150Gb/s, MySpace >60Gb/s, all in-house, non-CDN figures Biz for around 5 years, two founders, 25 employees today
3 out of 25 have worked in adult, every one else from enterprise or academia background
Competitors are ~$150mil/year
While it would seem “obvious” to pick adult for the most revenue opportunity, the market is has a number of established players
In many ways, I consider ourselves “the WalMart of pr0n” - cheap, a large selection, incumbents hate us
For this discussion - small is less 10gigabits per secBiz for around 5 years, two founders, 25 employees today
3 out of 25 have worked in adult, every one else from enterprise or academia background
Competitors are ~$150mil/year
While it would seem “obvious” to pick adult for the most revenue opportunity, the market is has a number of established players
In many ways, I consider ourselves “the WalMart of pr0n” - cheap, a large selection, incumbents hate us
For this discussion - small is less 10gigabits per sec
5. Base feature is filmstrip pick-n-wank UI of custom WMV8
diff How are we different
We only serve you the bits you’re interested in, not SMIL or seek ahead hacks
Interface has been copied by many competitors - VideosZ, DVDbox, VixeoHow are we different
We only serve you the bits you’re interested in, not SMIL or seek ahead hacks
Interface has been copied by many competitors - VideosZ, DVDbox, Vixeo
6. Modern “web 2.0” feature (all of this in beta, ping me for a login)
Lucene-powered search: Y studio + X star + Z genre
Codec friendly: WMV9 (mobile/set top), H264 (set top), FLV
RSS: Support for “set top” AppleTV, Netgear, etc
Flash player: our usual filmstrip, loop'ing, tags, mash-up’s
Recommendation engine
end goal is zero hand navigation, similar to Amazon w/ one-click to buy
you've been watching X seconds, others who like these seconds also like Y seconds… patch < real soon now What’s coming down the pipeWhat’s coming down the pipe
7. Ripping farm
15 encoders (Dell OptiPlex 745 - Core Duo 2.4Ghz E6600/4Mb cache)
3 rippers (random desktops, store VOB’s temporarily)
1 DVD jukebox (configured w/ 150 discs at a time) - SCSI lives!
24 hrs to process 200 DVD’s (start to finish)
rip VOB, encode, transcode, metadata, rsync to colo /dcc We add 5 DVD’s to the straight site every day, have to keep up
Changer is standard SCSI, use old school tape changer SCSI commands to control robot
Changer is geared for National Geographic or Medical Imaging use, not mass ripping
Bottleneck is FastE pipe to the colo, not 6x SCSI drivesWe add 5 DVD’s to the straight site every day, have to keep up
Changer is standard SCSI, use old school tape changer SCSI commands to control robot
Changer is geared for National Geographic or Medical Imaging use, not mass ripping
Bottleneck is FastE pipe to the colo, not 6x SCSI drives
8. Typical analysis is Netflow or sFlow, network is vendor C, no sFlow love, our alternative:
Apache “access_log” for video downloads logged to SQL w/ ASN info & download Kb/s (mod_log_firstbyte)
Allows us to route-map to other ISP's to tune "best route"
We are very aggressive to fix customer complaints
internal SLA is 200Kb/s or better
hard for US (AS7018 & AS7922 = big mess)
easy for Asia & somewhat for Euro
UK is traffic shaping hell - ever heard of a "Fair Use Policy”?
Data has also been useful
Geo IP/Google API
Gay vs. Straight and/or red. vs. blue states “speed test” Since we’re a Cisco shop, our own built-in choice in Netflow - didn’t like the available open source tools - mostly geared for peering analysis; not how to to monitor direct customer experience
Yes, the midwest is our largest Gay and Tranny demographic
Since we’re a Cisco shop, our own built-in choice in Netflow - didn’t like the available open source tools - mostly geared for peering analysis; not how to to monitor direct customer experience
Yes, the midwest is our largest Gay and Tranny demographic
9. Not usual XSS & htpasswd problems
Many sites PHP based, not us
Most billers prefer to FTP a htpasswd file or do raw SQL
Extremely rare to have a real API *sigh*
Aggressive download managers
20 simultaneous of 20Kb will speed up my DL, right!#@?
Custom Apache modules
limit simultaneous IP connections & Req/Sec, no limit on bandwidth
Can't completely limit against src IP (lots of proxies, some w/o Via or XFF headers); limit based on session ID instead
Users with malware, DNS hijacking
No longer system32/hosts hacking, registry exploits
security If you’re a NOC monkey, download awayIf you’re a NOC monkey, download away
10. Matt,
I think when Meta first signed up here at XXX we received quite a few free passwords. Apparently most of these expired fairly recently. Is there any chance you can send over some new ones? It would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
AXX DXXXXXXXX
General Manager
ZZZ Inc.
“The World’s Finest Data Centers” Colo email Note: don’t ask for free accounts when you loose my packages and take a week to install a cross connectNote: don’t ask for free accounts when you loose my packages and take a week to install a cross connect
11.
Modified:
trunk/config/session/session_conf_root.xml
Log:
Tranny is coming up a little too frequently - reducing configured %
Modified: trunk/config/session/session_conf_root.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/config/session_conf_root.xml 2006-11-18 17:36:07 UTC (rev 3066)
+++ trunk/config/session_conf_root.xml 2006-11-18 17:52:00 UTC (rev 3067)
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@
<category> <name>Transsexual</name>
<id>53</id>
- <target_percent>.0140</target_percent>
+ <target_percent>.0050</target_percent>
<convergence_weight>100</convergence_weight>
<streak_weight>1.0</streak_weight>
</category> actual SVN email
12.
Hey Matt,
Thanks for speaking with us. I also wanted to let you know that we currently are offering a buy 2 get 1 free promotion on our Optiplex desktops and Latitude notebooks, just in case there are current needs for them, Let me know.
BTW: My husband and I have checked out your website and it is one of the best we have visited. We will be interested in seeing the changes coming up.
Thanks again!
AXXXX XXXXXXX
Dell, Inc. - Account Manager
Middle Market Division Dell acct rep email
13. matt@videobox.com
Questions?
Props to h1kari