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Does sex really make the world wide web go round?

The world of porn is often exaggerated but does it really make up 37% of the web? And after some high profile cases we ask whether the American football league has a crime problem?

Many things about pornography are exaggerated - including the statistics quoted to suggest that the internet is overrun with porn. It seems that each time the subject is debated among politicians and the media a different statistic pops up... like this one: 37% of the internet is porn. Really? The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's technology correspondent Mark Ward isn't so sure.

And following the arrest of one of American football's top players, Aaron Hernandez, for murder, the media in the States has been awash with editorials claiming the league has a crime problem. But is that really true? We ask USA Today sports writer Brent Schrotenboer who has compiled an NFL Arrests database.

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