METAFILTER discusses YOUPORN amd the collapse of the porn industry

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Originally Posted by Toby

I'm going to go on the record now and predict that 'tube' sites will take a path similar to Napster.

When Napster went down a bunch of other file sharing networks took over.

A lot of my college friends stopped using the Napster knock-offs when they heard about other people getting charged and convicted for illegal downloads.

EDIT: I just remembered another reason one of my friends stopped using illegal file sharing networks. It had something to do with flooding the network with corrupted music files, so it took too much time and energy to get a clean download.