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Pornography earnings are estimated at $10 billion to $14 billion a year in the U.S., and $56 billion worldwide (Fortune Magazine), broken down the totals are as follows:
adult videos: $20 billion
sex clubs: $5 billion
magazines: $7.5 billion
phone sex: $4.5 billion
escort services: $11 billion
cable, pay-per-view TV: $2.5 billion
CDs/DVDs: $1.5 billion
Internet sales/memberships: $1.5 billion
novelties: $1 billion
other: $1.5 billion
72 million people visit pornographic Web sites annually. Males represent 65% of visitors to the sites in the U.S.
72% access the sites at home, and 28% view the content at work.
Child pornography generates $3 billion a year, with the average age of a person’s first Internet exposure being age 11.
AOL blocks 2.4 billion adult-oriented messages daily, which is 80% of all e-mail.
Organizational cost for lost productivity due to spam was a loss of $10 billion in 2003.
Divorce
Two-thirds of the divorce lawyers attending a 2002 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers said excessive interest in online porn contributed to more than half of the divorces they handled that year. They also said pornography had an almost non-existent role in divorce just seven or eight years earlier.
Children’s Exposure
The Justice Department estimates that 9 of 10 children between the ages of 8 & 16 have been exposed to pornography online.
Source: Prepared statement of Attorney General John Ashcroft at National Prosecutors’ Symposium on Obscenity, June 6, 2002.
Software company, Symantec, found that 47% of school-age children receive pornographic spam on a daily basis & representatives from the pornography industry told Congress’ COPA Commission that as much as 20 to 30 percent of the traffic to some pornographic Web sites are children.
Sources: “Symantec survey reveals more than 80% of children using e-mail receive inappropriate spam daily,” Symantec News Release, June 9, 2003 & Dean Schabner, “Danger Zone?” ABCNews.com, June 26, 2002.
Ralph DeClemente, a behavioral scientist at Emory University, described the danger of this exposure. He said, “Children can’t just put porn into their worldview, because they don’t have one.” He explained that pornography becomes a building block in a child’s mental and emotional development.
Source: Dean Schabner, “Danger Zone?” ABCNews.com, June 26, 2002.
Sex Offenders
When pornography becomes a filter through which the rest of life is understood, serious damage occurs. A 2001 report found that more than ½ of all sex offenders in Utah were adolescents – and children as young as 8 years old were committing felony sexual assault.
Source: “Child on Child,” KSL TV, May 7, 2001.
Porn Industry
The Supreme Court was VERY clear in Miller v. California, that hardcore pornography enjoys NO 1st Amendment protection, but lax federal and state law enforcement has given obscenity the protection denied to it in the Constitution! This is why porn is as bad as it is, because the federal & state governments will not prosecute porn or obscenity cases, even though, what they do is clearly not protected by the 1st Amendment, as stated in Supreme Court rulings! So what is going on you should be asking yourself and elected officials.
This non-enforcement has allowed an enterprise to grow into a global trade in human persons, and is at the root of human trafficking. Porn turns people into commodities. The last time the United States recognized human beings as consumer goods, it took a civil war to end it.
From an article by Daniel Weiss, Senior Analyst for Media & Sexuality at Focus on the Family, with our additions at GAP.
Internet Pornography Statistics
Source: Top Ten Reviews.com
http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html
By Jerry Ropelato
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Pornography Time Statistics |
Every second - $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography |
Every second - 28,258 Internet users are viewing pornography |
Every second - 372 Internet users are typing adult search terms into search engines |
Every 39 minutes: a new pornographic video is being created in the United States |
2006 Worldwide Pornography Revenues |
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Country |
Revenue
(Billions) |
Per Capita |
Notes |
China |
$27.40 |
$27.41 |
1 |
South Korea |
$25.73 |
$526.76 |
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Japan |
$19.98 |
$156.75 |
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US |
$13.33 |
$44.67 |
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Australia |
$2.00 |
$98.70 |
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UK |
$1.97 |
$31.84 |
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Italy |
$1.40 |
$24.08 |
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Canada |
$1.00 |
$30.21 |
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Philippines |
$1.00 |
$11.18 |
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Taiwan |
$1.00 |
$43.41 |
1 |
Germany |
$.64 |
$7.77 |
1 |
Finland |
$.60 |
$114.70 |
1 |
Czech Republic |
$.46 |
$44.94 |
1 |
Russia |
$.25 |
$1.76 |
1 |
Netherlands |
$.20 |
$12.13 |
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Brazil |
$.10 |
$53.17 |
1 |
Other 212 |
Unavailable |
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2 |
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$97.06 Billion |
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Notes 1=Incomplete, 2=Unavailable data
Click here to read Pornography Statistics, News and Facts Around the World
The pornography industry is larger than the revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix and EarthLink
2006 and 2005 Pornography United States Industry Revenue Statistics |
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2006
(Billions) |
2005
(Billions) |
Video Sales & Rentals |
$3.62 |
$4.28 |
Internet |
$2.84 |
$2.50 |
Cable / PPV / In-Room / Mobile / Phone Sex |
$2.19 |
$1.34 |
Exotic Dance Clubs |
$2.00 |
$2.00 |
Novelties |
$1.73 |
$1.50 |
Magazines |
$.95 |
$1.00 |
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$13.33 |
$12.62 |
US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC
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2006 Top Adult Search Requests |
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Demographics |
Search Term
 |
2006 Search Requests |
2006 % Change |
2005 % Change |
Web Pages Containing Keyword (Millions) |
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Male |
Female |
<18 |
18-24 |
25-34 |
35-49 |
50+ |
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75,608,612 |
7% |
40% |
414.00 |
50% |
50% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
|
30,288,325 |
622% |
80% |
1.40 |
36% |
64% |
20% |
20% |
21% |
20% |
19% |
|
13,684,718 |
53% |
21% |
1.82 |
58% |
42% |
20% |
19% |
23% |
21% |
17% |
|
23,629,211 |
-3% |
29% |
88.80 |
96% |
4% |
23% |
14% |
10% |
36% |
17% |
|
15,955,566 |
4% |
1% |
2.65 |
58% |
42% |
20% |
16% |
19% |
19% |
26% |
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13,982,729 |
36% |
25% |
2.10 |
44% |
56% |
22% |
19% |
19% |
22% |
18% |
|
13,484,769 |
0% |
20% |
2.42 |
44% |
56% |
22% |
19% |
19% |
22% |
18% |
|
13,362,995 |
301% |
51% |
1.58 |
36% |
64% |
19% |
21% |
21% |
20% |
19% |
|
13,230,137 |
382% |
40% |
0.28 |
50% |
50% |
20% |
20% |
19% |
20% |
21% |
|
12,964,651 |
88% |
33% |
2.07 |
50% |
50% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
|
12,964,651 |
-10% |
54% |
2.74 |
97% |
3% |
22% |
14% |
10% |
35% |
19% |
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12,065,000 |
25% |
14% |
181.00 |
50% |
50% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
|
11,861,035 |
97% |
36% |
2.21 |
50% |
50% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
|
9,960,074 |
76% |
21% |
2.95 |
67% |
33% |
19% |
19% |
16% |
28% |
19% |
|
8,502,524 |
-20% |
3% |
1.24 |
41% |
59% |
23% |
25% |
14% |
30% |
8% |
|
7,411,220 |
71% |
40% |
1.44 |
64% |
37% |
17% |
19% |
26% |
27% |
11% |
|
6,641,209 |
-6% |
24% |
43.20 |
86% |
14% |
10% |
33% |
25% |
25% |
7% |
|
6,130,065 |
7% |
38% |
1.97 |
82% |
18% |
23% |
17% |
14% |
28% |
18% |
|
5,487,925 |
-26% |
14% |
71.30 |
77% |
23% |
33% |
14% |
10% |
17% |
26% |
|
4,344,924 |
21% |
33% |
198.00 |
50% |
50% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
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2006 Search Engine Request Keyword Trends |
Top Worldwide Search Requests |
Top US Cities Search Requests |
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1. South Africa |
1. Elmhurst, IL |
2. Ireland |
2. Stockton, CA |
3. New Zealand |
3. Meriden, CT |
4. United Kingdom |
4. Chandler, AZ |
5. Australia |
5. Louisville, KY |
6. Estonia |
6. Irvine, CA |
7. Norway |
7. Kansas City, KS |
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8. Canada |
8. Norfolk, VA |
9. Croatia |
9. Tampa, FL |
10. Lithuania |
10. Oklahoma City, OK |
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1. Bolivia |
1. Elmhurst, IL |
2. Chile |
2. Meriden, CT |
3. Romania |
3. Oklahoma City, OK |
4. Ecuador |
4. Irvine, CA |
5. Pakistan |
5. Kansas City, KS |
6. Peru |
6. Tampa, FL |
7. Mexico |
7. Chandler, AZ |
8. Slovenia |
8. Norfolk, VA |
9. Lithuania |
9. Richardson, TX |
10. Colombia |
10. Las Vegas, NV |
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1. Pakistan |
1. Elmhurst, IL |
2. India |
2. Meriden, CT |
3. Egypt |
3. Kansas City, KS |
4. Turkey |
4. Louisville, KY |
5. Algeria |
5. Southfield, MI |
6. Morocco |
6. Newark, NJ |
7. Indonesia |
7. Oklahoma City, OK |
8. Vietnam |
8. Norfolk, VA |
9. Iran |
9. Irvine, CA |
10. Croatia |
10. Chandler, AZ |
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Internet Pornography Statistics |
Pornographic websites |
4.2 million (12% of total websites) |
Pornographic pages |
420 million |
Daily pornographic search engine requests |
68 million (25% of total search engine requests) |
Daily pornographic emails |
2.5 billion (8% of total emails) |
Internet users who view porn |
42.7% |
Received unwanted exposure to sexual material |
34% |
Average daily pornographic emails/user |
4.5 per Internet user |
Monthly Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer) |
1.5 billion (35% of all downloads) |
Daily Gnutella "child pornography" requests |
116,000 |
Websites offering illegal child pornography |
100,000 |
Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms |
89% |
Youths who received sexual solicitation |
1 in 7 (down from 2003 stat of 1 in 3) |
Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites |
72 million visitors to pornography: Monthly |
Internet Pornography Sales |
$4.9 billion |
Children Internet Pornography Statistics |
Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography |
11 years old |
Largest consumer of Internet pornography |
35 - 49 age group |
15-17 year olds having multiple hard-core exposures |
80% |
8-16 year olds having viewed porn online |
90% (most while doing homework) |
7-17 year olds who would freely give out home address |
29% |
7-17 year olds who would freely give out email address |
14% |
Children's character names linked to thousands of porn links |
26 (Including Pokemon and Action Man) |
Adult Internet Pornography Statistics |
Men admitting to accessing pornography at work |
20% |
US adults who regularly visit Internet pornography websites |
40 million |
Promise Keeper men who viewed pornography in last week |
53% |
Christians who said pornography is a major problem in the home |
47% |
Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction |
10% |
Breakdown of male/female visitors to pornography sites |
72% male - 28% female |
Women and Pornography |
Women keeping their cyber activities secret |
70% |
Women struggling with pornography addiction |
17% |
Ratio of women to men favoring chat rooms |
2X |
Percentage of visitors to adult websites who are women |
1 in 3 visitors |
Women accessing adult websites each month |
9.4 million |
Women admitting to accessing pornography at work |
13% |
Women, far more than men, are likely to act out their behaviors in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, or affairs. |
Top Video Porn Producers |
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Top US Erotica Important Cities |
Country |
Major Producers |
Cities |
Importance |
1. United States |
Vivid Entertainment, Hustler, Playboy, Wicked Pictures, Red Light District |
1. Los Angeles |
Adult Production Companies |
2. Brazil |
Frenesi Films, Pau Brazil, MarcoStudio |
2. Las Vegas |
Adult Stars, Sin City Chamber of Commerce |
3. The Netherlands |
Erostream, Midhold Media, Your Choice, Seventeen |
3. New York |
Adult Entrepreneurs, Erotica |
4. Spain |
Private Media Group, Woodman Entertainment |
4. Chicago |
Playboy |
5. Japan |
Soft on Demand, Moodyz |
5. San Francisco |
Adult Websites, Adult Companies |
6. Russia |
Beate Uhse, SP-Company, Dolphin Entertainment |
6. Miami/South Florida |
Adult Websites, Penthouse |
7. Germany |
Trimax, SG-Video, GGG, VideoRama, Zip Production |
7. Seattle/Pacific Northwest |
Adult Websites |
8. United Kingdom |
Hot Rod Productions, JoyBear Pictures, Blue Juice TV, Rude Britannia, Fresh SX |
8. San Diego |
Adult Websites, Strip Clubs |
9. Canada |
Wild Rose Productions, Eromodel Group, Dugmor |
9. Phoenix /Tucson/ Scottsdale |
Club Jenna, Erotica |
10. Australia |
Pistol Media |
10. Hillsborough, NC. |
Adam & Eve |
Other Notables |
11. Boulder, CO. |
New Frontier |
Sweden |
Maxs Video |
12. Pittsburgh |
DVD Sales |
Italy |
Adamo Entertainment |
13. Portland |
Strip Club |
Denmark |
Color Climax Corporation |
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France |
Euro Choc, Eil du Cochon, Ragtime, Video Marc Dorce, JTC Video, Colmax, Cadinot |
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Switzerland |
Gordi Films, Ikarus |
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Belgium |
GM Videos |
Top Pornography Banning Countries |
Romania |
Floyd-Agency |
Saudia Arabia, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, Egypt, UAE, Kuwait, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Kenya, India, Cuba, China |
Portugal |
Natural Video |
Israel |
Sex Style |
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Serbia |
Hexor |
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Czech-Republic |
Lupus Pictures, Bel Ami |
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Country |
Porn Pages |
United States |
244,661,900 |
Germany |
10,030,200 |
United Kingdom |
8,506,800 |
Australia |
5,655,800 |
Japan |
2,700,800 |
The Netherlands |
1,883,800 |
Russia |
1,080,600 |
Poland |
1,049,600 |
Spain |
852,800 |
US Adult Video Sales and Rentals |
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Year |
$$$ (Billions) |
Units (Millions) |
1992 |
$1.60 |
405 |
1993 |
$2.10 |
450 |
1994 |
$2.50 |
499 |
1995 |
$3.10 |
515 |
1996 |
$3.90 |
602 |
1997 |
$4.20 |
675 |
1998 |
$4.10 |
697 |
1999 |
$4.05 |
680 |
2000 |
$4.02 |
703 |
2001 |
$3.95 |
705 |
US Hardcore Pornography Titles Released |
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Year |
Titles |
1988 |
1,300 |
1989 |
1,350 |
1990 |
1,340 |
1991 |
1,505 |
1992 |
2,200 |
1993 |
2,400 |
1994 |
3,200 |
1995 |
5,700 |
1996 |
8,000 |
1997 |
8,000 |
1998 |
9,200 |
1999 |
10,300 |
2000 |
11,500 |
2001 |
10,900 |
2002 |
11,700 |
2003 |
11,400 |
2004 |
12,000 |
2005 |
13,588 |
US Adult Internet User Demographics - Income |
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Income |
% |
Under $15K |
6.23% |
$15K-$25K |
6.59% |
$25K-$35K |
9.55% |
$35K-$50K |
16.59% |
$50K-$75K |
25.58% |
$75K+ |
35.30% |
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US Adult Internet User Demographics - Age |
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Age |
% |
18-24 |
13.61% |
25-34 |
19.90% |
35-44 |
25.50% |
45-54 |
20.67% |
55+ |
20.32% |
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Playboy Enterprises (NYSE:PLA) |
Location: |
Chicago, Illinois |
Founded: |
1953 |
Employees: |
725 |
CEO |
Christie Hefner |
Properties: |
Playboy, Playmate, Spice |
Content: |
2,800 hours of programming |
TV/Movie Networks |
23-US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, Latin America, Brazil |
Network Households |
167.1 Million |
Magazine Subscriptions: |
4 Million monthly copies |
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2006 |
2005 |
2004 |
2003 |
Revenue |
$331,100,000 |
$338,100,000 |
$329,400,000 |
$315,800,000 |
Net Income |
$2,300,000 |
($700,000) |
$10,000,000 |
($7,600,000) |
Private Media Group (NASDAQ:PRVT) |
Location: |
Barcelona, Spain |
Founded: |
1965 |
Employees |
135 |
CEO |
Berth Milton |
Properties: |
Private.com, PrivateSpeed.com, PRVT.com, PrivateHome.com |
Content: |
2 Million photos, 900 Titles |
TV/Movie Networks: |
8 |
Network Households |
28 Million |
Distribution: |
462 Publications - 2 Million Magazines in 40 countries - 2 Million DVD's/VHS |
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60 Million Internet Page Views Per Month |
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2006 (9 Months) |
2005 |
2004 |
2003 |
Revenue |
$27,730,000 |
$32,673,000 |
$35,612,000 |
$38,491,000 |
Net Income |
$1,259,000 |
$59,000 |
($837,000) |
($570,000) |
Penthouse Media Group |
Founded: |
1965 |
CEO |
Marc H. Bell |
Properties: |
Penthouse, PenthouseStore, SexyJamie, PenthouseCelebs, Variations.com |
Distribution: |
2,000,000 Magazine subscriptions in 45 Countries - 12 International Editions: US, Australia, Dutch, German, Greek, Hungary, New Zealand, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Ukrainian, UK
30 Million Internet Page Views Per Month, 2.5 Million Unique Visitors/Month |
Dennis Publishing |
Location: |
London, UK |
Employees |
135 |
CEO |
James Tye |
Properties: |
Maxim, Stuff, Inside Edge, Blender |
Distribution: |
2.5 Million Magazines - UK and 30 other countries |
2005 Revenue |
$106,100,000 |
Net Income |
($300,000) |
Vivid Entertainment |
Location: |
Los Angeles, California |
Founded: |
1984 |
Co-CEOs: |
Steve Hirsch, David James, Bill Asher |
Industry: |
One of the Top Adult Film Producers |
2005 Revenue |
$100,000,000 |
Larry Flynt Productions |
Location: |
Beverly Hills, California |
Founded: |
1976 |
CEO |
Larry Flynt |
Properties |
Hustler, Hustler.com |
Distribution: |
500,000 Magazines |
Beate Uhse (Frankfurt Stock Exchange) |
Location: |
Germany and 13 other countries |
Founded: |
1946 |
Employees: |
1,500 |
CEO |
Otto Christian Lindemann |
Properties: |
beate-uhse.com, sex.de, Sex and Erotica Products |
Distribution |
Exports to 60 Countries - 5 million items sent each year from 3 million orders |
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2006 (9 Months) |
2005 |
2004 |
2003 |
Revenue |
$271,000,000 |
$369,000,000 |
$354,000,000 |
$344,000,000 |
Net Income |
$32,000,000 |
$41,400,000 |
$34,700,000 |
$40,800,000 |
Sources:
Statistics are compiled from the credible sources mentioned. In reality, statistics are hard to ascertain and may be estimated by local and regional worldwide sources.
ABC, Associated Press, AsiaMedia, AVN, BBC, CATW, U.S. Census, Central Intelligence Agency, China Daily, Chosen.com, Comscore Media Metrix, Crimes Against Children, Eros, Forbes, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Free Speech Coalition, Google, Harris Interactive, Hitwise, Hoover's, Japan Inc., Japan Review, Juniper Research, Kagan Research, ICMEC, Jan LaRue, The Miami Herald, MSN, Nielsen/NetRatings, The New York Times, Nordic Institute, PhysOrg.com, PornStudies, Pravda, Sarmatian Review, SEC filings, Secure Computing Corp., SMH, TopTenREVIEWS, Trellian, WICAT, Yahoo!, XBIZ
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