Google Bans Porn From Chromecast

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Well this sucks....or doesn't...depends on how you look at it. :D

Unfortunately, with the new SDK, Google released new terms of service. An interesting line from it is "you must comply with the Content Policies listed in the Google Play Developer Program Policies". By reading that referenced policy, we can then see a line that says "We don't allow content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material". In other words -- no porn on Chromecast.
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"We don't allow content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material". In other words -- no porn on Chromecast.
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...or no rated R movies, right? I see that as 3 line items:
* nudity
* graphic sex acts
* sexually explicit material


So -- nudity would even ban some TVMA shows, right?
 
But what if it's porn that I got to via a Google search?
 
Chromecast is definitely the most useless device I've ever been conned into buying.
 
I dont understand why they care. Add a damn parental protection feature if its that big of a deal, but why do companies these days think they need to control the morality of their users?
 
Hah, even my panasonic smart TV has an "adult" content category in the store.
 
Google is now out of compliance with their own terms :rolleyes:

Chrome web browser can stream anything you can show in a browser tab to the Chromecast, and what shows up in browser tabs more often than not? Porn.

"Do as I say, not as I do"
 
ZenDragon said:
I dont understand why they care. Add a damn parental protection feature if its that big of a deal, but why do companies these days think they need to control the morality of their users?
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That's the big question from me. I don't like control. I like to buy a product that has a lot of options, and the ability to use those options. If I wanted something to limit what I can do, I'd buy an Apple product.

(no pun intended) - I guess someone will fill that opening with a product that allows all content. Doesn't have to make it widely open, but just available if you want it. Parental controls are ok, as they allow a parent to control access to their kids. But, having a company control content to grown adults? No thanks.
 
Ur_Mom said:
That's the big question from me. I don't like control. I like to buy a product that has a lot of options, and the ability to use those options. If I wanted something to limit what I can do, I'd buy an Apple product.

(no pun intended) - I guess someone will fill that opening with a product that allows all content. Doesn't have to make it widely open, but just available if you want it. Parental controls are ok, as they allow a parent to control access to their kids. But, having a company control content to grown adults? No thanks.
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It is possible that it is to protect themselves legally ... if they sell the Chromecast outside the USA then the laws can vary greatly on what is considered pornographic and what the penalties for violating those laws are (even in the USA the States have lots of variations themselves) ... with terms like these they can throw any users who violate them under the bus and protect themselves since the user is in violation of their specified terms and conditions

It could also be a meaningless and unenforceable gesture as well ... lots of places make prostitution illegal to satisfy the morality police and then they choose not to enforce their law ;)
 
Roku still has porn.;) (it's not widely advertised, being on a secret Roku channel list)

The Roku 3 also supports casting from YouTube/Netflix tablet apps and mobile browser YouTube.
 
Never saw a sillier clickbait, kneejerkbait headline. Way to go Steve
 
Ur_Mom said:
That's the big question from me. I don't like control. I like to buy a product that has a lot of options, and the ability to use those options. If I wanted something to limit what I can do, I'd buy an Apple product.

(no pun intended) - I guess someone will fill that opening with a product that allows all content. Doesn't have to make it widely open, but just available if you want it. Parental controls are ok, as they allow a parent to control access to their kids. But, having a company control content to grown adults? No thanks.
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I think it stems from the negative affects of exposing a young child to Hardcore porn but then again there is a difference between that and a little nudity on an R rated movie... I think it should be up to the parents though to make sure their child is only unsupervised outside and not while they are on the internet... The good old days when parents weren't overly protective and I could go outside and do as I please and only get restricted on the internet... Now kids cannot go 50 feet from their house and get to spend hours upon hours on the Internet...
 
kbrickley said:
It is possible that it is to protect themselves legally ... if they sell the Chromecast outside the USA then the laws can vary greatly on what is considered pornographic and what the penalties for violating those laws are (even in the USA the States have lots of variations themselves) ... with terms like these they can throw any users who violate them under the bus and protect themselves since the user is in violation of their specified terms and conditions

It could also be a meaningless and unenforceable gesture as well ... lots of places make prostitution illegal to satisfy the morality police and then they choose not to enforce their law ;)
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Prostitution actually hurts society though...
 
DarkStar02 said:
In what regard? Not all prostitutes suck dick for $10 to buy their next hit of crack. :confused:
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While this is true prostitution tends to attract the following:

Corruption
Drug Dealers
Rape
Murder
Run down slums
STDs
Poverty

and many other things..

I'm speaking from experience as I live in a little town and the murder rate was 0 for a very very long time and the past three years prostitution has increased 67% and we had 30 murders last year, a 27% increase in drug related hospital visits, 15% increase in STDs, and an increased rate of housing project residents... Now it may not be all related to prostitution but before the other statistics went up Prostitution increased first. When you are out on the street as well you see a women on the corner dressed really nastily with kids around the area it cannot be good for the area... I also believe that some prostitutes are forced in to it and some are even forced in to it at a very young age to appeal to pedophiles.
 
Ducman69 said:
Chromecast is definitely the most useless device I've ever been conned into buying.
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I don't know about you but I use mine just about daily. I have it hooked up to a 50" dumb TV. I use it to stream shows at night when I don't want to get out of bed to change shows. It does not yet have the content of something like an apple TV but I find it overall to be worth every cent of the $35 I paid.
 
G1. Killer said:
While this is true prostitution tends to attract the following:

Corruption
Drug Dealers
Rape
Murder
Run down slums
STDs
Poverty

and many other things..

I'm speaking from experience as I live in a little town and the murder rate was 0 for a very very long time and the past three years prostitution has increased 67% and we had 30 murders last year, a 27% increase in drug related hospital visits, 15% increase in STDs, and an increased rate of housing project residents... Now it may not be all related to prostitution but before the other statistics went up Prostitution increased first. When you are out on the street as well you see a women on the corner dressed really nastily with kids around the area it cannot be good for the area... I also believe that some prostitutes are forced in to it and some are even forced in to it at a very young age to appeal to pedophiles.
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This is all true but don't you think if prostitution was legal and regulated it would eliminate these problems?
 
Say it ain't so!

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These comments make me laugh because some people have no clue what they're talking about.

It doesn't mean you can't use Koush's AllCast to stream your porn collection to your Chromecast. It means if you build a Chromecast app it can't have the option to stream porn to the Chromecast. So basically YouPorn or RedTube or some other porn site can't create an app and have it stream their content to Chromecast. Hell this doesn't even stop you from shooting a Chrome tab to the Chromecast and visiting one of those websites.

So in other words who gives a rats ass? Like others have said it's probably more for legal reasons than anything.
 
DarkStar02 said:
*strictly regulated
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How would it be regulated? They try to regulate it in Nevada (Its still illegal within Vegas city limits) but it just does not seem to work... If someone could come up with an idea then yeah maybe the this argument might just turn out to be another pot debate... Intelligent people can look at a study and agree it harms you in negative ways but then some people will just disregard those studies and use a study from a non credible source and say it has no harmful affects on anything at all...
 
All those negative effect are because of the illegal nature of prostitution. Eliminate that, it becomes just like any other business and has the same protections. Prohibition always invites a criminal element and in truth is far worse for society than any other supposed problem being prohibited (ie drugs).

That said, Chromecast probably shouldn't go down this route policing content... if they want to officially not offer porn in GooglePlay, sure, fine. However, the chromecast itself should be a dumb-streamer...if someone else wants to make a porn streaming app for chromecast, so be it. Doesn't mean that google "supports" it.

Then again, I'd never touch a Chromecast until I can interface with it using any browser (or 3rd party app) I choose, not just fucking Chrome (does Chromium even work, or actually only Chrome itself). I'm tired of this locked down proprietary bullshit. When I can stream from Firefox or someone writes a Samba/NFS browser that's free and open source, then I'll consider it.
 
Abditive said:
See politics.

See war on drugs

See Catholic priests.

See war zones.

See poor countries and people

Yes, free sex doesn't have STD's...lol

Yes, because rich people don't pay for sex. Like I said, clueless.
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I believe you sir are the clueless one... Generalizing about Catholic Priests? Legalizing Drugs will make no difference as cartels and violent dealers will move on to something else that's profitable and us cutting into their profit margins pisses them off... You should look at facts not make blanket ludicrous statements.
 
Unknown-One said:
Google is now out of compliance with their own terms :rolleyes:

Chrome web browser can stream anything you can show in a browser tab to the Chromecast, and what shows up in browser tabs more often than not? Porn.

"Do as I say, not as I do"
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Banned unless it comes out of their content network.
 
Ducman69 said:
Chromecast is definitely the most useless device I've ever been conned into buying.
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Thankfully amazon let me send mine back and it was so small it only costs me a couple bucks in shipping. I got to be honest, I thought it sounded awesome but man once I had it, I just couldn't figure out what the hype was about.

Now..who is anyone to say what I should be able to stream to a device I pay money for..makes no sense...
 
G1. Killer said:
I believe you sir are the clueless one... Generalizing about Catholic Priests? Legalizing Drugs will make no difference as cartels and violent dealers will move on to something else that's profitable and us cutting into their profit margins pisses them off... You should look at facts not make blanket ludicrous statements.
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Wrong. Go watch "Boardwalk Empire". Why isn't that happening now? You realize that during the 20s prohibition, there was a massive increase in organized crime and the power they had, specifically because of prohibition - it allowed them to make a ton of black market money and thus power, especially when they operated underground because there was no legal protection. Hell, back during those days, much like the drugs being adulterated and "stepped on" today, they watered down the booze, sold rubbing alcohol as drinking alcohol, and sometimes put things like ink and other poisonous substances into the booze because there was 1) no regulation to stop them and 2) few competing sources.

Today, you can go to the store and buy a wide variety of alcohol, which has been inspected to ensure it isn't full of engine degreaser, for a much lower price than you ever could back there, and we don't have bootleggers taking up warehouses and funneling their money and power into actually harmful criminal elements.

Take away the profit, and those cartels won't have the power to do what they do. They won't be able to buy off elected officials in multiple countries. They won't be able to afford high end weapons. They won't be able to fund their operations at all. History proves this, time and time again. Prohibition harms society and invites criminal elements. Legalization and smart regulation benefits society in a multitude of ways.
 
G1. Killer said:
How would it be regulated? They try to regulate it in Nevada (Its still illegal within Vegas city limits) but it just does not seem to work... If someone could come up with an idea then yeah maybe the this argument might just turn out to be another pot debate... Intelligent people can look at a study and agree it harms you in negative ways but then some people will just disregard those studies and use a study from a non credible source and say it has no harmful affects on anything at all...
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This discussion is kind of going sideways but there are a number of European countries who have heavily regulated services ... there are restricted areas for the practice of the trade ... all members of the trade are required to get annual (or more frequent) health check ups ... they restrict the age of the participants ... and it is heavily taxed

It is unlikely given the prudish nature of American society that we would go to this level, but it can work if a country really buys into the full regulation and maintenance associated with legalization ;)
 
I guess just making something Miracast Receive capable wouldn't give Google enough control. Explains why they went all proprietary and big brother with this thing.
 
For everyone saying Chromecast is "useless" -- you do realize that it now supports streaming of local content (via RealPlayer Cloud and Avia, for now), right? That alone is easily worth $30.

I kind of agreed when it was just a Netflix and YouTube player, but not anymore. Miracast is also interesting, but it's less efficient for streaming high-quality video.
 
It also supports plex for playing back local content. I have all 844 movies on plex now and love it. Have a chromecast on every TV and the one AV receiver in the house.
 
brettjrob said:
For everyone saying Chromecast is "useless" -- you do realize that it now supports streaming of local content (via RealPlayer Cloud and Avia, for now), right? That alone is easily worth $30.
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Does it stream HD local content good?
 
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