A new study showed that peer-to-peer sharing companies are now earning millions of dollars from high-definition porn videos following a failed bid to acquire the support of big media companies to shift its distribution to P2P sites in order to cut bandwidth costs.
Earlier, P2P sharing companies raised some $32 million to finance the said transfer scheme. However, media companies deferred the deal, which prompted Internet companies such as BitTorrent, Vuze, and Pando to look for new business model.
The said P2P companies are now offering high-resolution porn to save business following the failed deal. One of which is Vuze that raised some $30 million in funds prior to the deferment.
Vuze offers its users $25 membership fee for one month for them to download unlimited number of HD adult videos, which can be found at the company’s StudioHD online feature.
NewTeeVee, the company in charge of the study, said that Vuze is now eyeing the mid-year launch of its premium sports, music, and movie channels at the same rate.
The survey company also said that porn has always been a “hit” among BitTorrent sites, adding that the Internet companies are now capitalizing on it.
But despite the number of hits it gets from P2P users, the research company said that porn is only second to the list of most downloaded items in BitTorrent sites. The study also showed that pirated software remains the top choice among users.
Meanwhile, experts believe that high-definition porn will not be as lucrative as the P2P sites has projected, saying that the introduction of free sites such as YouPorn and Xhamster made it more difficult for the companies to meet the revenue projection.