PornoTube

Infobox Website
name = PornoTube



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url = [http://www.pornotube.com www.pornotube.com]
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type = Pornographic
language = English
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slogan = Sexperiment
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PornoTube is an advertising-supported pornographic website that provides audio, videos, and photos of explicit sex for free. [MyVideo leads next generation of upstarts Traditional media's appetite for video-sharing sites shows no sign of abating, but has echoes of the dotcom bubble" by Tom Braithwaite, "Financial Times", London, September 5, 2006, pg. 30.]

Background

It allows its users to upload their own pornographic media (user-generated content). It is one of the highest-traffic pornographic sites on the Internet along with YouPorn and has been described as a major development in Internet pornography. [cite news | url = http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/daily_columns/the_most_important_site_on_the_internet | title = 'The most important site on the Internet' | first = Joe | last = Brown | work = T3 | date = 2006-11-30 | accessdate = 2006-12-25 ] The site offers amateur sex clips, clips from pornographic websites, and scenes of regular porn movies in the straight, gay and lesbian category.

PornoTube was started in July 2006 [ [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://pornotube.com Pornotube.com] at the Internet Archive] by the company AEBN [ [http://pornotube.com/advertise.php Advertising information at pornotube.com] , accessed 29 August 2006] which is based in Charlotte, North Carolina. [ [http://pornotube.com/tou.php Pornotube Terms of Use] , accessed 29 August 2007] A significant competitor of PornoTube is YouPorn which was started in late August 2006 and, according to Alexa, has since overtaken PornoTube in popularity. [ [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=youporn.com&site1=pornotube.com&site2=&site3=&site4=&y=t&z=3&h=300&w=610&range=3y&size=Medium&url=youporn.com Comparison of YouPorn and PornoTube traffic] , Alexa.com] PornoTube and YouPorn are seen as posing notable competition for paid pornographic websites and traditional magazine and DVD-based pornography. [ [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/industry/2007-06-05-internet-porn_N.htm Purveyors of porn scramble to keep up with Internet] , "USA Today", 5 June 2007] [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/chris_ayres/article1951164.ece YouTube with fewer clothes] , "The Times", 19 June 2007]

Concerns have been expressed over the inability to verify the age of the persons depicted in the videos, the possibility of copyrighted videos being uploaded to the site, and the possibility of privacy violations when private sex tapes are uploaded without the consent of all involved parties. [http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/07/06/Porn2-0/ Porn 2.0, and Its Victims] , "The Tyee", 6 July 2007]

PornoTube received increased attention in late 2006 when an alleged sex video of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline appeared on the website. [cite news | url = http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2006-11/13/content_731658.htm | title = Britney 'sex tape' leaks onto internet | work = China Daily | date = 2006-11-13 | accessdate = 2006-12-25 ]

This site does not redirect any users to malicious websites or condone its use by minors.

Legal controversy

On December 6, 2007, Vivid Entertainment filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against PornoTube. [cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-vivid11dec11,1,2232727.story |title= Porn producer sues YouTube knockoff | accessdate=2007-12-11 | date=2007-12-11 | author = Joseph Menn | publisher=Los Angeles Times] . The lawsuit [cite web|url=http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/ip/vividaebn120607cmp.html|title=Adult Film Company's Copyright Lawsuit Against PornoTube|accessdate=2007-12-11 | date=2007-12-11 | publisher=FindLaw] alleges that the YouTube-like site profits from the illegal posting of Vivid's copyrighted films, and failed to comply with the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act, a federal age-verification and record-keeping law that applies to the adult film industry.

ee also

*Alternative media
*Comparison of video services
*Video sharing
*Viral video

References

*cite news | url = http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2161094/porn-copy-youtube-launched | title = YouTube faces stiff challenge from PornoTube | first = Will | last = Head | work = VNU | date = 2006-07-26 | accessdate = 2006-12-25
*cite news | url = http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/youtube-has-porn-clone/ | title = YouTube has porn clone | author = Arrington, Michael | work = TechCrunch | date = 2006-07-25 | accessdate = 2006-12-25

External links

* [http://www.pornotube.com Official site]