Napster Founder Tasked with Cleaning up Chatroulette
Napster Founder Tasked with Cleaning up Chatroulette
Posted 06/14/2010 at 6:32am
| by Paul Lilly
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Have you been in a coma for nearly the past year? If so, then you probably haven't subjected yourself to Chat Roulette, which is...um, a sort of social networking site if being particularly generous with our description. It's really an online site where you go to hook up with random strangers for webcam-based chat, and what could possibly go wrong, right?
If you've never been to Chatrourellete.com (NSFW), it should take you all but 10 seconds to figure out the answer to that question (Spoiler: it involves dudes waving around their manhood). That's not to say there isn't potential for Chat Roulette to be something more, and with more than a million people a day visiting the site, investors have begun to take notice. But for advertisers to jump on board, somebody needs to clean things up.
That somebody is Shawn Fanning, who you might recognize as the founder of Napster. Chat Roulette founder Andrey Ternovskiy has been in informal discussions with Fanning on ways to change the direction of Chat Roulette. One solution being yanked around is adding software designed to scan video to determine whether or not a user is exposing himself.
"I'm fascinated by Chat Roulette and Andrey," Fanning told TechCrunch. "I want to help him any way I can."
The question is, will he be able to? An even better question, when will we see more awesome Chat Roulette Piano Improve videos (NSFW - language)?
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Larzs13
June 15, 2010 at 11:09pm
There is a man smoking keef he needs to be smacked on the back of his head if one should so choose to smoke of the tree of life one should do it in the privacy of his home and not draw attention to him self so very uncool.
popstop785
June 14, 2010 at 8:39am
This reminds me of the South Park ep. "Man jacking off. Another guy jacking off. Wait, no another dude jacking off..." Ha ha ha!
TechMan2525
June 14, 2010 at 8:25am
It seems to me, that if you've selected clean chatting, which means you don't want foul language or nudity, and person or persons are in violation of usage, the plaintif can flag them as such and their IP is blocked for a month, six months for nudity, a year for repeat nudity offenders and indefinately for third time for nudity being the worst offense. You get barred longer for language also if you continue offending, it's just lesser stents becuase language isn't as traumatic. Obviously you would confirm the offense and there could be warnings for false complaints, leading up to and including blocking IP for one month for repeated false complaints if any.
(I love Peter Jackson as a movie director. Go 1920x1080p)
Peanut Fox
June 14, 2010 at 11:19am
The problem with an IP block is it's not the least bit difficult to spoof one. On a side note my ISP has reissued me three new IP addresses in the last 18months.
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