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Re: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

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Post by coryrc » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 7:50 PM UTC

bigbubba wrote: post #281

slothtrop wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding is that copyrighted content on Youtube is often uploaded under the guise of anonymous users, but this is illusory. Unauthorized videos are taken down with vigilance, we see this happening to content creators all the time for no good reason. If these videos get the thumbs up to stay up, they're in cahoots with copyright holders somehow (most likely) or are deliberately ignored for some other reason. O…

If youtube user bigbubba420 uploads a music video for an 80s synthpop song he doesn't own, the copyright owner for that video informs youtube of their ownership claim and revenue from the video an anonymous user uploaded is redirected into their pockets.

Also if travel_vlogger happens to walk by a store playing the radio, the ownership of their video and revenue is given to the music company and you can't do anything about it. Just easier to steal from the little guy.

Re: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 7:50 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #243

tmalsburg2 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Their entire business is built on stolen content uploaded by anonymous users, Not disagreeing with you, but, to be fair, that was exactly Youtube's recipe for success, and still is to some extent. I never understood how Youtube could get away with that.

> that was exactly Youtube's recipe for success Disagree. ContentID was a proprietary tech for content recognition that made YouTube not get inundated with copyrighted material. YT is successful because they handled the issue, not because they didn't.

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Re: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

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Post by frakkingcylons » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 7:50 PM UTC

LatteLazy wrote: post #225

When you talk to Americans about guns or fast food or healthcare or 101 other issues, Freedom is a word you hear a lot. But for porn and alcohol, despite broadly harmless, Americans are all about bans and prohibitions...

Alcohol is the 3rd-leading preventable cause of death in the United States [0]. By no stretch of the imagination is it "broadly harmless"

[0]: https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...

Re: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

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Post by nullc » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 7:51 PM UTC

lvs wrote: post #289

nullc wrote: post #280

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> but I suspect this is not the full story, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point#Details

I'm surprised that real estate and construction are not on this list.

Presumably they're harder to shut down without due process via vague leaning on anti-money-laundering rules with payment processors.

Everything on that list depends on a relatively high volume of relatively low value banking transactions.

Re: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

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Post by theknocker » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 7:53 PM UTC

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #177

sbank wrote: post #173

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He said that there are "porn companies that feature of-age performers" that "are highly exploitative and uncomfortably close to human trafficking", e.g. GDP. Nothing more, nothing less. > Qatar football stadium The issue with documented human rights abuses in the construction industry in Qatar is a problem with Qatar, and not with the construction industry. I don't think I have to explain why.

> He said that there are "porn companies that feature of-age performers" that "are highly exploitative and uncomfortably close to human trafficking", e.g. GDP. Nothing more, nothing less. No, he did not say that; he said “ Even porn companies that feature of-age performers are highly exploitative and uncomfortably close to human trafficking ”. > The issue with documented human rights abuses in the construction indust…

Because anyone interested enough in this topic to do any cursory research -- as opposed to just being an insufferable fedora on the internet -- will realize it's not limited to just one company.

Re: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

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Post by scared2 » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 7:59 PM UTC

I remembered an interview where the victim said "my 16 yr old younger brother tried to rape me while I was sleeping, when confronted he confessed he learned from pornhub" pornhub also needs to be responsible for such misguiding titles

Re: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

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Post by NateEag » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 8:00 PM UTC

justinclift wrote: post #295

mskslal wrote: post #291

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Legally I'm not sure. But ethically, stolen TV show clips are way more justifiable than stolen porn.

Why is one more justifiable than the other?

Individual humans are not directly demeaned and violated by copying TV shows.

They are by non-consensual porn.

I personally believe strongly that porn demeans, dehumanizes, and violates the people in it, even when it's consensual (and my understanding is that consensuality and non-abusive working conditions are much rarer than most porn consumers think).

I realize that opinion would be quite unpopular around here.

Re: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

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Post by ZiiS » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 8:01 PM UTC

tehjoker wrote: post #259

nailer wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> that was exactly Youtube's recipe for success Disagree. ContentID was a proprietary tech for content recognition that made YouTube not get inundated with copyrighted material. YT is successful because they handled the issue, not because they didn't.

Youtube in the mid-to-early 2000s was famous for being the place to get anything. Times have changed.

Before 2005 youtube wasn't.

Re: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

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Post by _trampeltier » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 8:01 PM UTC

I wonder if it might has something to do with wirecard is gone. They should have processed a lot of money for porn sites, because no other bancs would work with them. So now after wirecard is gone, I guess these companys have to play by new rules.

Re: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

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Post by viraptor » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 8:01 PM UTC

slothtrop wrote: post #227

tmalsburg2 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Their entire business is built on stolen content uploaded by anonymous users, Not disagreeing with you, but, to be fair, that was exactly Youtube's recipe for success, and still is to some extent. I never understood how Youtube could get away with that.

My understanding is that copyrighted content on Youtube is often uploaded under the guise of anonymous users, but this is illusory. Unauthorized videos are taken down with vigilance, we see this happening to content creators all the time for no good reason. If these videos get the thumbs up to stay up, they're in cahoots with copyright holders somehow (most likely) or are deliberately ignored for some other reason. O…

> Unauthorized videos are taken down with vigilance,

Yeah, right. Tell that to the flood of channels which will take cut single scenes out of tv series and twitch recordings and upload them to YT monetized.