[AusNOG] Peering For Porn

[Jethro Carr]

Won’t be on Akamai - they have a formal policy of not hosting “unethical content” and refuse porn and gambling businesses, but getting a hard definition from them on what is “ethical” vs “unethical” is a seemingly impossible mission. Particularly if you work for a company that might serve content that is ethically OK for AU company but ethically immoral for a US company (e.g. stories about wikileaks cables).

Part of this policy dates back to people incorrectly blaming Akamai as the source of porn, if you go digging you’ll find more about this:

The company was also the recipient of unwanted publicity when it was disclosed by the Boston Globe that Akamai was using college servers to deliver content from teen-pornography web sites and help offshore gambling sites to speed content delivery. Few people had realized that Akamai's system of spreading Internet content to geographically advantageous servers relied on college servers as well as company-owned servers. Schools benefited from the relationship because they gained faster Internet access and paid less money for more bandwidth. At first Akamai downplayed the controversy, maintaining that pornography and gambling represented less than 1 percent of its revenues and that it was not going to renew contracts with online gaming companies and no longer sought new business from what a spokesperson referred to as "adult content sites." Within a couple days the Boston Globe reported that the objectionable material was no longer mirrored on the college servers it checked.

— http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/akamai-technologies-inc-history/

regards,
Jethro

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On 20 February 2015 at 0:01:00, Joshua D'Alton (joshua at railgun.com.au) wrote:
> There was a nice presentation on Nanog
> https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog54/presentations/Tuesday/Labovitz.pdf  
> which should give you some indication of the larger percentage of "other"
> and adult traffic, and the common few providers carrying that traffic.
>  
> Webzilla for example, peers quite a lot globally via their parent IP
> Transit AS46786
>  
> I wouldn't think they would bother/need peering in AU, streaming isn't
> latency sensitive.
>  
> Smaller sites probably use Cloudflare or Akamai, until they do enough
> traffic to warrant their own network and their own peering. Not that Akamai
> is that expensive really, compared to what porn sites charge per month, and
> how much traffic the average customer really does.
>  
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Matt Perkins wrote:
>  
> > Interesting question. I think two of the big ones are on any2. I kind of
> > assumed they would be on akamai (or like) but perhaps not. I wonder if
> > there is a storm around content distribution of unclassified content
> > locally. Making it just to hard. We are mainly a Business ISP but we still
> > see a fair amount of that type of material I would wager.
> >
> > Matt.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 19/02/2015 9:27 pm, Nathan Brookfield wrote:
> >
> > Hi James,
> >
> > I think Redtube is cached locally from memory, may want to refer your
> > customers to that as the preferred source of pornographic love :)
> >
> > Kindest Regards,
> > Nathan Brookfield
> >
> > Chief Executive Officer
> > Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
> >
> > Web: http://simtronic.com.au
> > Phone: 1300 592 330
> > Fax: (02) 4749 4950
> >
> > On 19 Feb 2015, at 21:24, James Mcintosh  
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hey Noggers,
> >
> > With most of the "legit" content providers (e.g. Google, Akamai, Apple,
> > Amazon etc) peering at one or more of the local peering exchanges what is
> > the situation with the major porn sites? We know this type of traffic makes
> > a large proportion of residential ISP traffic. Is there any way to get this
> > content without it taking up IP transit?
> >
> >
> > -James
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