Tits

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Tits Bits - pr0n 2.0

• Matt Peterson
• matt_at_videobox.com

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Industry

• Yes, full of frat boys (not everyone)
• "Conferences" put hacker drinking to shame, ie
  bars open _at_ 9AM or never close
  
• Events literally every 3 weeks, international
  US focus - Internext/AVN, XBIZ, Webmaster Access,
  Phoenix Forum, Cybernet Expo,
  
• Growing number of "professionals", the industry
  is growing up - slowly
  
• Hustler lost in late 90s online, old media
  still catching up to modern user habits
  
• DRM being a great example of this

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Industry cont.

• 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

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• 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 _at_
  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

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diff

• Base feature is filmstrip pick-n-wank UI of
  custom WMV8
  

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patch

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-ups

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

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/dcc

• Ripping farm
• 15 encoders (Dell OptiPlex 745 - Core Duo 2.4Ghz
  E6600/4Mb cache)
  
• 3 rippers (random desktops, store VOBs
  temporarily)
  
• 1 DVD jukebox (configured w/ 150 discs at a time)
  - SCSI lives!
  
• 24 hrs to process 200 DVDs (start to finish)
• rip VOB, encode, transcode, metadata, rsync to
  colo

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speed test

• 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

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security

• 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!_at_?
  
• 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
  

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Colo email

• 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 Worlds Finest Data Centers

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actual SVN email

• 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.x
  ml
  
• 
  
  
• --- trunk/config/session_conf_root.xml 2006-11-18
  173607 UTC (rev 3066)
  
• trunk/config/session_conf_root.xml 2006-11-18
  175200 UTC (rev 3067)
  
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• 
  Transsexual
  
• 53
• - .0140
• .0050
• 100ht
  
• 1.0

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Dell acct rep email

• 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

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• matt_at_videobox.com
• Questions?
• Props to h1kari