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Sounds like Pornhub's changes weren't satisfactory or were too late. This is an absolute inditement of the "let anyone upload anything and police it later" mod
by ocdtrekkie 6y ago
Sounds like Pornhub's changes weren't satisfactory or were too late.
This is an absolute inditement of the "let anyone upload anything and police it later" model that YouTube and Pornhub depend on.
I think it's long overdue.
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoI don't even understand it since most of these sites just have the same videos (mostly clips from commercial porn) uploaded over and over again with different titles. The actual amount of novel content is much less than the total number of videos. Clamping down on arbitrary uploads would be doing their users a favour.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoAllowing arbitrary/anonymous upload is a way for a company to host pirated content without being sued, because they can hide behind (or traditionally have hid behind) Section 230. It's absolutely true that the death of anonymous upload on Pornhub will be a massive boon to commercial and professional adult performers, who will find piracy of their content evaporate overnight. This may actually bring on a renaissance for the adult industry, given how much harm Pornhub has had to the revenues of many studios. Users are going to have a harder time finding that content outside of torrents or the like, so I'm not sure I'd call it a straight upside for them.
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoI dunno, beyond Pornhub there seem to be a dozen other similar sites. Unless they all ban uploading, it will just continue there.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoSure, but Pornhub is the largest and probably the most technically superior. And it's likely after this, it'll be easier to bring the smaller sites down as well.