Do we, as an adult webmaster community, oppose supporting adult versions of YouTube?

[Halfdeck]

I haven't read this thread but here are some of my off-the-cuff thoughts on why I'm against this:

1) There will NEVER be an adult version of YouTube. Unless you're talking about your neighbor videotaping himself and his wife go at it and uploading it for the world to see, what we have going on right now is not and never will be an adult version of YouTube.

2) The only site that gains from the traffic is the video hosting site. Submitters send them traffic that will never come back and paysite owners lose sales by helping create a site no one has to pay for.

[Trixie]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

1) There will NEVER be an adult version of YouTube. Unless you're talking about your neighbor videotaping himself and his wife go at it and uploading it for the world to see, what we have going on right now is not and never will be an adult version of YouTube.

Good point -- there's a big difference between the homemade content users post on youtube and the stolen or promo content posted on pornotube, etc. That doesn't mean it won't catch on, though. I think the new site rude.com encourages non-pro users to do just that: broadcast their own cams and post their own porn videos. Those kinds of sites have done well in the past when they were picture oriented and as long as 2257 doesn't scare everyone away it could happen. It already happens a lot in fetish communities where the fetishists make and share their own porn (there's a doll-sex site and forum like that).

[LB]

Originally Posted by Trixie

Good point -- there's a big difference between the homemade content users post on youtube and the stolen or promo content posted on pornotube, etc. That doesn't mean it won't catch on, though. I think the new site rude.com encourages non-pro users to do just that: broadcast their own cams and post their own porn videos. Those kinds of sites have done well in the past when they were picture oriented and as long as 2257 doesn't scare everyone away it could happen. It already happens a lot in fetish communities where the fetishists make and share their own porn (there's a doll-sex site and forum like that).

What I would love to see is sponsors who aren't ok with the uploading of their promo content on tubes saying so clearly, just like they are starting to do for blogs. However from what I am seeing when I ask sponsors is that most are more than happy for me to use their promo content, and some who realise the quality of the traffic have even put video content packs together for me with no watermarks