Porn industry struggles because of YouTube clones
Steve Hirsch’s Vivid Entertainment, the biggest name in the $12 billion-a-year adult video industry, filed a lawsuit last month against PornoTube, one of a handful of popular video-sharing sites styled as the dirtier cousins of YouTube, Redstone’s legal nemesis. Similar to the Google-owned video juggernaut, PornoTube has become a destination for free porn by letting anyone post sex videos without filtering out clips that might be copyrighted. Hirsch believes PornoTube doesn’t do enough to keep his content off its site, and, like YouTube, it has leveraged the traffic it now delivers into marketing deals with other sex video producers. It has left Hirsch, a leader in an industry that has welcomed new technologies like the VCR and VOD much more than its Hollywood equivalents, with little choice but to sue the pants off the free sites.
“How do we survive?” Hirsch asks. “We don’t produce videos just because it’s fun. As DVD sales decrease, we need to look to other revenue streams.” Domestic DVD spending for mainstream fare was off 3.6% in 2007, but Hirsch told Portfolio magazine recently that Vivid’s DVD sales are down 50% since 2004. VOD is the future, he says, but he can’t compete with free. PornoTube and its brethren YouPorn and XTube continue to draw mass amounts of traffic, and they don’t seem to care about monetizing the eyeballs. North Carolina-based PornoTube didn’t respond to a request for comment. But Vivid’s critics, much like those criticizing Viacom in the YouTube case, argue that most of the porn on the sharing sites is created and distributed by amateurs. It will be interesting to see how this case develops, but there are already tens if not hundreds of similar sites so shutting down one of them will not change much, the pretty same way as closing one bittorrent website doesn’t solve a thing.
Source: Reuters
Comments(80)
Love those Youtube clones, got several of them bookmarked
Why would you bother suing? Plenty of them just upload the little sample clips anyway.
LOL. PornTube? YouPorn? Never heard of ‘em.
Well it’s the same case with viewing episodes of tv shows online on the website.
It’s either you adapt to the changing world of technology or you lose.
I’d rather watch it for free online then pay for something that only has a few months of playback value.
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Can someone please remove the racist comment I found posted by #27 here
http://www.rlslog.net/the-box-2007-dvdrip-xvid-reserved/? These cowards always wait until they think no one is looking.
Thanks.
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cool! Never knew about those sites
porns free anywhere so unless they do a live show they will struggle lol.
There is porn on the internet?…what will they think of next?
pROnshare.com is the best….
they make billions and whinge when they lose a few dollars, what a jerkoff industry (yes pun)
Is there any such site that offers direct DL of avi/Mp4 to PC like Google video used to give in its glory days?
what about redtube.com ?? lol
thats a shemale in that pic
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is it possible to watch pornography on interweb?? and all this time I been making do with a used Hillary Clinton cardboard cutout stuck to my pillow..
Thas funny cuz if they eventually get rid of one theres 6 poping up and thats why we will always win. Cuz we have the ability to give people things already owned. Gotta love the internet. Porns the same as music/ movie vids. They take one site down they have 6 more. Waste More of your business’s money going to court to shut donw 1 site taking away 15% of your wages. LOLLERS GL HAVE FUN . We own the internet, u suit wearing haters
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haha Check out this site. XXXSTASH.com dont know how it ranks againts porntube and its brother sites but its the hook up..
LOL @ the possibilty of anyone actually buying PORN. We ddl’ing it anyway.
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Well a good question is, will the porn industry die because of free porn on the internet? Even if it does not die will it be good for the porn industry?
I mean if theres no more big money in porn wouldn’t it be hard to lure high class beautiful actresses?
Spankwire is the very best of the youtube-type porn clones.
Tell you what, Martin. When you add in the last sentence yourself, you shouldn’t quote Reuters as the source underneath.
“We don’t produce videos just because it’s fun.”
That’s coming from a PORN producer… *LOL*
lol blackies..
yes its funny
no i aint racist.. (no more than u are who complain about such a stupid thing) cause everyone is racist including blacks towards whites..
Amateur-porn is way better than those unreal silicon pumped cows screaming till they “cum”.
“LOL. PornTube? YouPorn? Never heard of ‘em.”
i hadnt either. pretty funny. ive also thought up some other domains that anyone is free to use if they want to start up a clone site:
youpube.com
boobtube.com
lubetube.com
pootube.com (fetish site)
freeporn.woot.com
3+10=13
Did jenna give permission for rlslog to use her image? ;p
Interesting how they are still making billions a year and they are still saying they losing money.. I call Bullsh^t here.
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So why all the sudden do they have a problem with these sites. They all have been there for years.
I mean you just have to visit one of the free porn sites and you easily get acces to those video porn sites.
A while ago I discovered http://www.masterwanker.com. That site even has rare porn.
As long as I can remember has there been free porn on the internet and still people bought video’s or dvd’s.
I doubt that the sales are off because of these sites. I think that just as mainstream movies that the dvd’s are too expensive. I have seen dvd’s lying around that cost over 50 euro’s. I mean that is ridiculous for a movie with these fake big boobed women. Personally I am tired of these ugly blond women.Look at the picture of that blond women. Does she actually excite people. I think that those porn producers should worry about quality. Watching the same type of porn gets boring after a while and that’s why they have to be creative. Look at “Private”. They are producing porn which are almost like regular movies only the charachters in those movies also have sex (Cleopatra or The Gladiator). It is like the porn they produced in the seventies.
I don’t think that the porn industry really is suffering. I think that it has more to do with the climate of the economy.
Vivid makes really boring porn, now they’re looking for anyone to blame but themselves.
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Have not seen this, in the past theres been funny stuff like a chick won for best anal sex, and she goes on stage and starts crying, oh I’m so honored to win this, I would like to thank my mother, father, god…..
Heres a Youtube clip of Jenna Jameson, announcing her retirement, she thinks shes so important, she says I know everybody has been waiting for an announcement, I know the press has been speculating…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QgM1z-nB5Ok
ahhh let me shed a tear for the billionairs making money off of our weakness. Those poor druged up women that swear they are doing it as freedom of choice. So here it goes! We hate porn monguls and they should all die! anyone can make a porn video! and that is what is killing his revenue.
…people pay for porn?
I was wondering when the porn industry was going to start complaining about piracy. Porn has got to be one of the easiest and cheapest media industries to make a fortune on. Never mind writers, directors, set designers, etc. All you need is a slut and a camera.
recap:
http://www.sexvidia.com/
http://www.mypornmotion.com/
http://pornotube.com/
http://youporn.com/
http://redtube.com/
http://www.spankwire.com/
http://www.pronshare.com/
http://www.vho.com/
http://xtube.com/
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i don’t see the point of watching any videos on a small, tiny little flash player with 50×50 pixels. I may as well watch a gif movie ??
“is it possible to watch pornography on interweb?? and all this time I been making do with a used Hillary Clinton cardboard cutout stuck to my pillow..”
thanks, best laugh of the morning
thanks for such a great thread, hadn’t heard of half of these sites… trying to quit, oh well, off to spankwire lol
tryin to quit??
what porn?
@24-Question
“I mean if theres no more big money in porn wouldn’t it be hard to lure high class beautiful actresses?”
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oh wait…
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porn + high class… that should be the definition of a paradox…
maybe vivid should stop charging $50 per dvd.
http://www.clipser.com is a great site for adults and i forgot about their cloned porn site…
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^^^ lols… looks like somebody needs to get laid
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not sure what language it is,but with simple registration, you can get atleast 4-6 new entire movies via torrent, update on a daily basis. good speed too.
here you can find the cast info. and front/back pics of most of the movies.
http://www.cduniverse.com/default.asp?cart=664767238&style=ice
p.s. dont forget to install a good anti-virus and safe browser to browse all these porn sites people metioned above.
…freeporn.to…also funny..
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what about xvideo.com?
best by far FTW
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correction
what about megarotic.com
its have the biggest reach by alexa.com???
Maybe Vivid is having problems because they have the highest budgets in the business, circa $100k? Vivid is the epitome of 90s porn. Porn doesn’t need to be high budget. You could argue that Vivid has higher quality girls, but without Vivid they’d still be doing porn. I’m just fine watching Anal Slutbangers #54. Btw, gexo.com and eskimotube.com are my favorites.
I find it hard to believe that hose sites would pose any rela threat to the porn industry. They suck anyways. Why would I go there to wait for some clip buffering when I can download the full movies at Cheggit or empornium and watch em at my own leisure?
And the porn industry isn’t exactly broke. The idea that internet sharing would damage the movie business is false. They make as much money as before, the income just comes from different sources, making some lose money and others gain. Just like any other business anywhere.
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Are they talking about the same sites I looked at? The selection is lousy, the videos are small and blurry and at most they’re maybe 2-3 minutes long. You see a thumbnail with what looks like a cute girl in her early 20s, but when you click on the video, you end up with some 40 year old hooker who only looks good from a distance and who is wearing enough makeup to grease an engine.
I’m a fan of video.xnxx.com.
We all know that the larger the company, the less its ability to innovate and cater to niche markets. Lets face it, we all have our fetishes and the usual suck d1ck lick vaj missionary doggy anal face cum just isn’t enough to stay competitive.
Admins, drop the word filters they suck in these kinds of threads!
I dont like sites like these, i rather use torrents
why doesn’t rslog have a porn section LOL
Anyone know a porn blog with splitted scenes and RS links?
Anyone have any of Kristina Rose’s videos, plz share it with us. This chick is extremely hot and almost all her links are reported.
lol i dont know about you guys but im tired of main stream generic porn, there is only so much plastic chicks you can see getting a load dumped on their face before it gets old, and paying over $60 bucks for a dvd gets a bit steap. personally i rather see real people going at it porn just sucks when 2 random people are just making noises to pretend they are getting off. and i like to see real women then fake boob job ones you see all the time in porn so these massive studios only have themselves to blame. though i am still a fan of milf hunter
shiat, just picked up like 10 extra sites! thanx guys…and girls? Talk about pr0n addiction. how many wanks-a-day does it take to chillax?
@67, this is the best i found. Anyone has other sites with split scenes and rs links, or any other site with links to file factory, mega upload and whatnot ?
http://www.spamfreexxx.com/Webmaster/
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Hey, you forgot HentaiShare!!!!!
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Well, you could also do what I do and that is to dl the porn torrents, use ConvertXtoDVD, and then you can watch it on your home theater system.
Call the neighbors, wake the kids (but only if they are over 18)!
Awesome comments guys. Its hilarious how this article has spurred on people to post their favourite streaming porn sites. The irony when compared to what the article says is awesome.
Keep up the good work.
Why is it that these forms of passive entertainment keep crying about lesser sales. I mean look at the games industry why does it only grow and the movie,music and film industry seem to face this problem….. its a passive form of entertainment and name one real innovative concept that came about from the porn industry. Its called evolution really helps keep up with times.
I’m still waiting for someone to invent a brainwave recording and playback device like they had in Brainstorm and Strange Days. Why just watch porn when you could experience it? The ultimate safe sex.
Can’t forget Pornhub.com and Shufuni.com
I havent seen any post of pornorip.net… Gigs upon gigs upon gigs and ohh yah more gigs of porn movies heh…
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