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. It's going to take some time for it all to shake out, but all the copyrighted content being uploaded to these sites illegally will eventually land them all in court. They'll have to learn to work with the content producers in order to survive. The true homemade vids alone aren't going to cut it.

This exactly how I have felt. These MASSIVE ones with FULL movies just can't stay in business. And someone responded to your post Toby with people just move on. When I was in college napster was awesome. It had pretty much everything you wanted and then some and the ease of access to it was that even girls that weren't computer savvy AT ALL could get on and download music they wanted. Now yes there are other things, limewire, etc. but none match the ease of use and MASSIVE amount of content napster did back in the day.

Originally Posted by xxxjay

Yeah, good luck with the sale. Unfortunatly, Youtube set a bad example by making a hugely popular site off stolen content and then selling it to Google. Youtube was hemoraging money when Google boughty it and still may be right now. Now there are a dozen or so of the adult youtube knockoffs. None are getting bought. All will be out of business soon.

That's just my 2 cents.

Lets hope it happens sooner rather than later.