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The rise of video sharing sites and resulting flop of physical porn sales has led to a change in how porn stars work and deliver their, er, material, to the masses, with an estimated 5,000 people, most of whom we’d assume to be ladies called Sindy, working on live porn webcam streams in the UK.
The data comes via the Authority For Television On Demand, a rather niche UK body charged with monitoring online streaming video activity. The main thrust of its work is to ensure that pornographic material is hidden behind those staggeringly ineffective and entirely useless age restriction barrier pages, a rule it can only enforce on sites based in the UK. so it isn’t likely to stop the global porn tsunami based around ripping, sharing and uploading everything.
The result of the modern online porn distribution free-for-all is porn workers going freelance and doing it all on webcam instead. Tom Dennis, from the Adult Industry Trade Association, says: “It’s live and cannot be pirated. It means that performers can directly get paid from their online performances,” with the result that some of the estimated 5,000 UK webcam entertainers are able to make it their main income stream.
So there’s something to talk to them about next time you’re whiling away a dull evening watching them gyrate over a keyboard. [BBC]
Image credit: Webcams from Shutterstock
Perfect picture
Okay but what’s the old man upto?
Grandpa’s making big buck-buck-bucks!
I see you’ve changed your name. Or are you a whole new person with a new personality now?
I had no idea there was a market in the UK for mature men like him. What are they called? Male cougars?
Male cougars are usually aged between 38-46.
This is a GILF.
Haha. Then what are Grandmothers on webcams called?
Also a GILF.
Grandma/Grandpa I’d Like to Fornicate.
But if there’s pensioners of both sexes, how would people know which one you’re talking about? You can’t go “I’ll take the GILF please..”.
Yes you can, you just state after if it’s male or female.
On websites they would be gender specific to the GILF.
Looks like Des Lynam’s fallen on hard times in his latter years
Looks like the Italian guy who does the Bet365 adverts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8AjnsppODA
“…most of whom we’d assume to be ladies called Sindy…”
HEY! I spent a long time coming up with that name! On top of shaving my legs and tarting myself out.
I prefer American webcam girls, I mean they’re shoving all sorts up their vaginas. The British webcam girl is more reserved and tries to get away with showing a bit of boob and then sitting around talking like any of us care for two hours. Listen bitch I’m trying to wank off here, rub ur pussy a bit at least.
TOO MUCH INFORMATION
Experience?
LAD.
I’m unLAD-ing.
He should go get laid. Like for real.
Hahaha
Also, whilst I know you were kidding (and EVERYONE MISSED THE JOKE), didn’t we read on Giz recently that a cam girl in Eastern Europe is considerably more likely to shove something in her pussy than an American cam girl, and for a heck of a lot less money?
Perhaps you should do some more investigative journalism.
“It’s live and cannot be pirated”. Maybe I shouldn’t tell them how screen capturing works.