Personally, I'm of the bodily harm can solve this situation sort of opinion. Which is why it sucked when my girl caught my 10 gigs or so. My advice. Go the CD route, and threaten his kneecaps.

Tell him that he can watch, too, and you won't rat on him. Hopefully he'll be a convert quickly .)

You've took some measures and that's good. If he rats on you, blame him. Or canada, whichever you prefer :)

Put the porn on a cdor dvd and hide it in a good place, and make sure you delete the media player history.

Most parents will be realistic, and not care if u tell them, assuming u are old enough. Mine dont care, they know....

what you should do, is just tell ur mom that u have a little bit of porno on ur comp, and that YOU CAUGHT UR BROTHER WATCHING IT!

What happen cheese when your gilrfriend found your stash, im waiting for the day mine is located...LOL

20 gigs!!! WOW. There isnt even 20 gigs of porn on the internet worth downloading! You must taking anything and everything!

Use an iPod.... or other hard disk based mp3 player. I made a folder and buried it and called it "Linkin Park." No one with any bit of sense would look there. ;)

And this is why I set my wife up a separate account on my computer and password protected mine.

Yeah the problem with "pay porn" is you feel like you have to download stuff and just rip all the content you can while you have a membership to get your moneys worth.

25gigs isn't as much as some people are making it out to be, I think full movies, compressed are about 750 megs, dvd rips are around 4gigs each

so i mean yer talking up to like 30ish movies.

I've got a 1TB harddrive, I stopped downloading porn a long long time ago since there are so many streaming sites like pornhub or empflix

no need to clutter my computer when all ya need is a pick me up ;p

Yup, but it depends on the resolution.

Most full movies are +/- 750 MB at 512 x 384 resolution. Or they're broken into 2 or more CDs if a higher resolution (like 640 x 480) - each CD is 750MB. (That always bothered me - the max storage for any CD is 700 MB. Why make a "CD" that can't be stored on a CD?)

I was going to download a hi-def movie, but decided against it when I realized it was comprised of twelve 400 MB rar files (4.4 GB total!) A true DVD rip, as you mentioned.

With HD now, I've download single scenes that are over 700 MB.

Going back to the O.P., though - which is unnecessary, since he hasn't posted in four years - the best solution now is to use an external hard drive.

As far as 20 GB being "a lot" of porn; hell - I've got 20 GB of downloaded porn I haven't even watched yet.

.:)

Back when The_Dude posted this, a "movie" was a 30-second to 5-minute clip, and wasn't more than a couple megs.

Times have changed, friends.

New policy on thread necromancy, Jazz?

Yes it is, RB. There ain't no such thing no more.

heh. this is why we have separate computers.

Are your wives really opposed to porn? Or are you too timid to ask if it's ok?

1. No reason to have porn on your PC because of the Internet
2. Delete every single bit of it
3. Deny it to the grave
4. Profit

Holy shit!! 25gigs!!! WTF? I don't even have 10MB!! I think in my documents folder under My pictures I have three or four Racy pictures of Ditta Von Teese. I change my wallpaper then I delete the old one because getting it is as easy as 1-2-flickr!!

Y'all are nuts!!! (Unintentional Pun) :lol:

my wife watches porn with me..

but then I don't think I have any d/l'd porn on my computer..any of them actually. I just like to keep my shit to myself :greed:

Ah, yes. This makes it an entirely different matter.
We have a "family computer" (mainly his) with separate accounts and each our own laptop. It just starts getting cluttered if you have different organization systems.

this thread isn't THAT old. I've been looking at internet porn long enough to know that much :p

if it's like 4 years old, I started torrenting about 7 years ago? divx compression was out "From 1998 through 2002, independent enthusiasts within the DVD-ripping community created software tools which dramatically enhanced the quality of video files that the DivX..." etc..

yeah it's 2009, so that lines up about right.

There used to be many short, low-res clips out there because of limited storage on hard drives, but I was downloading 700+ MB movies on Kazaa as far back as 1999. It took forever with a 56 kbs modem, but I just let it DL all night.
With technology giving us cable modems, digital cameras and ever-increasing hard drive capacity, though, naturally porn files are getting more abundant and increasingly larger.

Also, Viagra really changed the porn industry. Porn scenes from the 70s , 80s, and early 90s lasted 10-12 minutes. Now, they average 25-35 minutes, with multi-camera editing stretching some to an hour.

Technology is great - my first hard drive was 40 MB. Nowadays, that's a 4-minute avi file at 640 x 480 resolution.

Oh, and genuinegirly, the O.P. was worried about his mom finding his porn; not his wife.

EDIT LATER: I just saw a couple clips on a favorite porn site that had two 20-minute scenes that were over 900MB each!!! Yikes!!

I don't suppose it's worth noting that "everything" seems to be bigger about the actors and the actresses these days. (although honestly, who the hell has to "act" like they're digging the sex?)

I think she was asking the wife question towards me and The_Jazz. ;)

Yes, my wife is actively opposed to hard-core porn. She tolerates soft-core stuff, and it's something we've decided that I'll look at but just make sure that she doesn't have to.

There's always a trade, isn't there? I'm learning this.

What I like about my brother is that when he found my porno folder, he didn't tell mom. Now that I live away from my parent's place, I don't bother to hide the XXX folder.

Regarding sibling blackmail, there's one guranteed method to get by it. It's save me two decades of stress and always having the upper hand when dealing with my brother and/or sister.

Confess.

It works like this (true story):

Bro: Ou! I'm telling!
777: No you won't.
(brothers run to kitchen)
(translated from spanish)
777: Mom, I had to hit my brother.
Mom: What?! Why did you do that?
777: He spit at me. (he really did)
Bro: No I didn't. (he lies about it)
Mom: Joe, how many times have you told you to stop spitting at people? Go to your room!

777 wins :)

With 25 gigs of media, it's time to get a DVD burner. they hold 4.7 gigs each. More if you splurge on dual-layer blank dvds. If you have money to burn, get a Blue-ray disk burner, and put all that porno on one disk.