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."
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A Growing numbers of Japanese couples are willingly allowing themselves to be
filmed while making love and then providing live broadcasts over the Internet,
according to Shukan Post.
