03-16-2014, 10:22 AM
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Web sites like RedTube and PornHub allow users to view pirated porn videos for free.
Porn mogul Jay Quinlan really hates when people on the Internet steal his intellectual property.
At a panel this week at the ?XBIZ State of the Industry Conference,? Quinlan, tattoo-covered vice president of a company that owns three adult entertainment pay Web sites, struggled to contain his anger over seeing videos from his pages being illegally posted on YouTube-esque porn hubs.
?The people stealing this stuff should be brought out to the back room and shot,? he said. ?I mean, who wouldn?t want to watch free porn? I don?t think people are that picky about their masturbation habits. So every year that goes by now, there are new people ? especially younger people ? watching adult content who think that porn is free. And it?s not good.?
YouTube has an answer in the porn industry, and it?s called "Tube." Web sites like RedTube and PornHub allow users to upload and view an unlimited selection of mostly illegal porn videos for free, and it has devastated the porn industry.
The adult business, already struggling from free, user-generated porn on the Internet, saw a 22 percent steep decline in DVD sales and rentals last year, more than twice that of Hollywood, according to a Hustler press release at the conference.
The issue hit mainstream media in December of 2007, when leading porn producer Vivid Entertainment Group filed a lawsuit against Porno Tube, alleging the site profited from its copyrighted material. Like with Napster, it made little difference.
The free sites are still wildly popular today. Alexa, a web information company that ranks the top global sites on the web by traffic, on Thursday had ranked YouPorn at #35 and RedTube at #49, both above CNN?s Web site, which was #50 and #72 Apple.com. (LINK)
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