Exhibitionists air their dirty linen with 'love hotel' Net broadcasts
Shukan Post. July 22 edition
A love hotel the popular men's weekly does not name has apparently worked out how to make a buck for couples with a yen for partaking in the pleasures of the flesh. The hotel has set aside two rooms where any action that goes on is automatically beamed onto the Net to be viewed by paying subscribers.According to a disclaimer on the site, the couples being filmed are aware that their footage is being broadcast and agree to let it be shown live. In return, the hotel waives the normal cost of the room and charges the couple just 500 yen to cover the cost of laundering the sheets.
Action is taken using two cameras that feed streaming video into a computer, while sounds are picked up by a powerful boom mike.
"On the site where the footage is being shown, there's also a photo of the outside of the love hotel where the action is taking place. There's also the same notice that's been put up in the lobby, which says that the room is being used for live Netcasts and offering sunglasses to anybody who wants to hide their face from view if they perform inside the room," a voyeur tells Shukan Post. "The reality of the whole thing is incredible."
Shukan Post explains that watching the broadcast will cost interested peepers about 20 yen per minute, or 1,200 yen per hour. Japan's best selling weekly goes on to describe in graphic detail two separate incidents where couples provide footage for the rest of the world to see.
Tatsuo Inamasu, a professor of law at posh Hosei University, is not surprised to see this development arise.
"It's the nature of the IT business," Inamasu tells Shukan Post. "Since use of the Net became more widespread, there has been increasing worries about the protection of individual privacy and worries about leaked information. On the other hand, the proliferation of the Internet has also seen the rise of more people who want the world to know about their private lives. That's been the whole basis behind the success of blogging. For some, broadcasting their lovemaking sessions may provide added thrills through the thought that they may have a potential audience of millions. It's clearly a feature of the Net world." (By Ryann Connell)
July 13, 2005
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/
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