Hyderabad, April 21 :    Hyderabad, April 21:  Yahoo might have been forced to drop its porn plans like a hot potato in the US, but in the cyber cafes of Hyderabad, smut is hot property. Come evening, and you can see hordes of pimply teenagers making a beeline for these cyber cafes to catch a slice of porn on screen. It's boom time for porn. First, Incable of the Hindujas is offering a Net-over-cable connection, which makes downloads faster. Most cyber cafes are opting for this Net access. Some 1,200 new Net parlours have sprang up in the city which already had 2,300 of them. Second, it's summer vacation time. For students bent on a voyeuristic trip, a visit to a cyber cafe works out cheaper - @ Rs 15 an hour - than going to a cinema showing some B-grade porn flick. This also means good business opportunity for some. Take the case of Prakash, a 21-year-old software engineer. He created the domains kamala and parvati which host photographs of maids in various stages of undress. Prakash has a tie-up with some cyber cafes which are allowed to use the sites for a fee. There are more such smut traders like Prakash. But police claim helplessness in cracking the crimes of the virtual world as there is no concrete evidence - not even a CD or a floppy to give them something to go by. 'We can ask one cyber cafe to shut down. But another is born at a different locality with a different name,' says Suryanarayana, a special task force official. Some cyber cafe owners who encourage browsing of smut sites defend their stand, saying 'it is no crime'. 'We do not encourage hard porn but only soft porn,' says Ramakrishna Reddy, a cyber cafe owner of Musherabad. 'What we show is not even 10 per cent of the scintillating scenes in Telugu movies,' he adds. He set up a 15-terminal cafe three months ago. His income now: a neat Rs 1,500 ever day. What's feeding more such localised porn sites is the large pool of unemployed software engineers. With dotcoms going up in vapour and a global meltdown in the software sector, thousands lost their jobs. Andhra was hit the hardest because it had produced a large pool of software professionals. According to the latest figures, over 30,000 software engineers are waiting for the market to improve in the US. Since many foreign firms used to outsource their jobs from Indian companies, this has taken a toll of the domestic firms as well. Of the 1,100-odd infotech companies registered with the Software Technology Park of Hyderabad, only about 200 are functioning. Around 300 dotcoms have folded up. Even medical transcription firms have been hit hard. Of 120 such firms that came up initially, only 10 exist at present.