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I remember ~5 years ago when Skype offered this, with integrated payment. It got used mainly for video phone sex and was quietly abandoned, IIRC (very imperfec

by rdl 13y ago

I remember ~5 years ago when Skype offered this, with integrated payment. It got used mainly for video phone sex and was quietly abandoned, IIRC (very imperfect memory on this, and never used the service myself).

john-dova 13y ago
I'm sure this will be clean out by next Spring ;)
jbmartin 13y ago
I wonder if there's a more general issue with public video services getting abused by adult content. Interesting to see how (if?) Google deals with this problem...
- __alexs 13y ago
  How is it abuse exactly? Live consenting naked people in exchange for money is not illegal in much of the world.
  - gizzlon 13y ago
    Guess if you try to get help fixing your bike and get a big penis :)
- Flenser 13y ago
  It's possible that by vetting the initial users they can create a community that would self police any abuse.
bentcorner 13y ago
I think this should be some sort of internet law. It's happened to other platforms, and it'll happen again. I'd be interested to see what Google is doing to prevent this from happening (or if they would embrace it at arms length). "Should thou ever integrate video with a payment system, thou shalt be sundered full of naked bodies"
- niuzeta 13y ago
  this should be as one of ten commandments of internet.
r00fus 13y ago
And people wondered why Jobs was so against anything pornographic on the AppStore. The issue isn't that sex-based services are bad, it's that when they eclipse other uses of the product, the reputation is set. Add to that the generally puritanical nature of most societies with regards to sex services, and the rampant potential of abuse with regards to sex workers, and you have a good incentive for companies to avoid/deny those usages. Even though craigslist was a great boon for sex workers in the cities it operated in, it pissed off the establishment and now it's not nearly as discoverable as it used to be.

by rdl 13y ago

john-dova 13y ago

I'm sure this will be clean out by next Spring ;)

jbmartin 13y ago

I wonder if there's a more general issue with public video services getting abused by adult content. Interesting to see how (if?) Google deals with this problem...

__alexs 13y ago
How is it abuse exactly? Live consenting naked people in exchange for money is not illegal in much of the world.
- gizzlon 13y ago
  Guess if you try to get help fixing your bike and get a big penis :)
Flenser 13y ago
It's possible that by vetting the initial users they can create a community that would self police any abuse.

bentcorner 13y ago

I think this should be some sort of internet law. It's happened to other platforms, and it'll happen again. I'd be interested to see what Google is doing to prevent this from happening (or if they would embrace it at arms length). "Should thou ever integrate video with a payment system, thou shalt be sundered full of naked bodies"

niuzeta 13y ago
this should be as one of ten commandments of internet.

r00fus 13y ago

And people wondered why Jobs was so against anything pornographic on the AppStore. The issue isn't that sex-based services are bad, it's that when they eclipse other uses of the product, the reputation is set. Add to that the generally puritanical nature of most societies with regards to sex services, and the rampant potential of abuse with regards to sex workers, and you have a good incentive for companies to avoid/deny those usages. Even though craigslist was a great boon for sex workers in the cities it operated in, it pissed off the establishment and now it's not nearly as discoverable as it used to be.