Google Should Destroy PornoTube and Other YouTube Porn Clones

Amit Chowdhry | Wednesday November 8, 2006 | 18,179 Views |
Categorized under , Google, PornoTube, YouTube

PornoTube LogoLet’s say you take TIME Magazine’s Invention of the Year in 2006 and you sully it with smutty material. What do you get? A YouTube porn website. Google has spent a ton of money protecting YouTube’s reputation of not being a music, movie, and TV show thief so far, but has not done anything about the companies that are exploiting YouTube technology concepts for the wrong reasons. I believe that it is time for Google to put a bit of effort towards eliminating some of these YouTube porn clones through means of buying out and shutting down shop or simply removing them from Google search indexes. Another suggestion is to somehow patent usage of the word Tube such as how Yahoo wanted to patent “Dig It. Tag It. Share It.” and how Flickr wanted to patent the word “Interestingness” for usage of its media objects.

Yes, Google buying a porn company doesn’t sound like a great PR move, but there are other third parties that Google could fund to take the credit of closing them down. YouTube has a clear-cut policy of disallowing pornographic material from its website and if certain materials happen to show up, then YouTube users ensure to “Flag” the explicit material.

Mike Arrington has a review of PornoTube on TechCrunch. “PornoTube offers on demand Flash videos (our sponsor Adobe will be proud I’m sure) of user uploaded pornography, including video, audio and photgraphs. The site is surprisingly well designed and has social features like rating, commenting, etc.” stated Arrington. “All videos are tagged and can be browsed via a tag cloud or by straight or gay content. There are RSS feeds for various categories. Videos can also be embedded into other sites.” This clearly proves that PornoTube has received so much attention already by having a strong number of similar features that people may also potentially associate PornoTube with YouTube. *GASP*. I noticed a comment on this article on TechCrunch by Lance who started XTube, another YouTube porn clone. “XTube was the first on the scene in March 2006. PornoTube showed up a few months after us and used their already massive network of adult sites to get immediate traffic, thus the great alexa ranking.” stated Lance “XTube started from scratch and we are doing awesome considering. I wonder how many people it took to get PornoTube up and running. We did it with 3. Beat that!”

Some of our readers may say that if I am so against the idea of such sites, why would I even mention them so they get more publicity. Basically I just wanted to get the idea out there that Google should take a stand against this. I did not provide any hyperlinks on this post to any of the YouTube porn clone websites. I am curious to know how our readers think though.

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  1. i believe
    December 21st, 2006 at 3:42 am

    I strongly believe you are too much of a control freak. Why ban things? Why patent WORDS? I bet you believe they should eliminate open source as well, so that everybody would have to pay for software. I am willing to bet that you have exactly zero of illegal mp3s on your hard drive and would shoot those god-damn pirates dead, wouldn’t you?
    But, my dear friend, i’d have to disappoint you - internet is not a series of tubes, nor is it about banning, enforcing and controlling. It’s about freedom, which, thankfully, can not be limited as of yet.

  2. Amit Chowdhry
    December 21st, 2006 at 3:51 am

    Definitely a great argument, “i believe.” However, I have been a strong advocate of software such as Limewire and Napster (2000) for allowing users to sample music for free and I definitely am an anti-RIAA believer.

    There is a strong difference between smutty material and music though. Imagine if you created an equivalent of Facebook.com and someone ripped off your idea and made it a software called Pornobook.com and focused on the collection of pornographic material from college women/men.

    Or even take Digg.com and making strictly pornographic material. Might as well call it Smutt.com and make the icon say “Smutt It.” Obviously it is companies like PornoTube that is taking the best ideas from the Internet and twisting it in the wrong direction.

  3. Anonymous
    January 12th, 2007 at 12:39 am

    The Internet is freedom at its best. Complete user controlled content. Let the internet decided. These porn alternatives are not slander against youtube, if anything they are increasing its appeal. Don’t try to regulate it, let it regulate itself.

  4. VidShrine.com
    June 20th, 2007 at 2:30 am

    I wish Google would buy my PornTube Clone LoL, we don’t use the Term TUBE in a URL - but - we do use a common script for hosting Videos, so I guess we may be deemed as a “YouTube Clone” - there are similar issues getting around with piracy with CopyRighted Porn, but we as Hosts are stumped what is Classified as Copyrighted material and what isn’t ? as a lot of our Posters spam Videos with their URLs on the Video and then there’s the ones that are uploaded that have another persons URL that may be a copyright mark - we employ YouTubes stance if we are contacted and are asked to remove a Video then we will.

  5. Anonymous
    June 21st, 2007 at 4:06 pm

    People are free to choose their life style. You have the right to keep youporn, pornotube, flyshe, xtube far away from your life.

  6. Mike
    July 1st, 2007 at 12:33 am

    What do you plan on buying out 85% of the internet and shutting it down, it’s not just PornoTube or YouTube, it’s MySpace as well with sites like MyNudie.com springing to life, websites will alway be copied it’s what makes the internet keep growing. Why ban what fuels the majority of the internets revenue?

  7. Amit Chowdhry
    July 1st, 2007 at 3:02 am

    excellent point, mike. you have to understand google’s buying power right now though. maintaining google’s “don’t be evil” brand is just important right now as it has ever been before.

  8. Zat
    July 9th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

    Are you kiddin? Dude, the word “tube” has been a slang word even before Youtube (obviously derived from slang) started up. Your suggestion of patenting words is misguided. Unfortunately this is exactly what’s wrong with this world. Patent words, the english language, common phrases, heck some idiot is even trying to patent some forms of yoga. Duh! I understand patenting solid scientific ideas, pharmaceutical discoveries, etc, but please don’t go about patenting the language. Someday we’ll all be paying royalty for saying ” That’s hot”. Get my drift, tube. (see scottish slang for the word tube). And by the way, while we are on this topic, shouldn’t we ban Mira Nair’s movie, Kamasutra since it has sullied the reputation of the real Kamasutra by depicting nudity. Doh!

    Oh, and smutty existed long before the internet came about, and it is people like you who make it twisted. Not porn. If you don’t like it, don’t view it. But quit curbing freedom under the guise of capitalism.

  9. Amit Chowdhry
    July 9th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

    Excellent point, Zat. I appreciate your time in discussing the matter. The point that I was getting at is to somehow trademark the way Tube is being used.

    Let me give you an example of a way that an Indian conglomerate used the law in his favor to take down a domain name:
    http://www.bodacious-tatas.org/

    If Tata can do it, why not Google?

  10. Zat
    July 9th, 2007 at 9:38 pm

    And exactly my point. That half the world and the capitalistic community is selfish, greedy and plain dumb. Tata shouldn’t have gotten away with it. They did because of some stupid idiot with a hammer. Here’s a link http://socialitelife.com/2005/08/10/kate_beckinsales_tatas.php

    - what do you say? Tata should sue Kate Beckinsale!!! See my point? Oh, and in Spanish the word Tata means grandpa. Oh, my bodacious grandpas, eh!

    Nobody on this planet is original. Names, words, phrases, - everything is derived from something before. Innovation itself has been researched and studied to conclude that there is no true innovation. Smart humans are able to connect and integrate previous thoughts and ideas into newer/better variations. By stifling this process, creativity and innovation will be lost. Seriously, was bodacious-tatas.com eating into their (Tata) truck, car and steel sales? Gimme a break. Humans have been so dumbed down that they are blinded by law and propaganda.

    You think the name Google is original? Try Googol. Look it up. Larry Page was fascinated by Googol. Maybe 9 year old Milton Sirotta should have patented it so nobody could come up with variations of the word Googol. And then where do you think Google would be? Non-existent?

    Point being - let humans copy, learn and share from each other. For good or for worse. This is what makes us a progressive civilization. Not patents and laws.

    Get your history correct before moving towards the future, because there would be no future without the past. Kapish.

  11. Amit Chowdhry
    July 9th, 2007 at 10:18 pm

    All interesting points for sure, but laws work out favorably for many just as much as it can be unfavorable.

    The owner of bodacious-tatas obviously took a hit from trademark law, but what about the owner of whitehouse.com? The government couldn’t take action because doing so would violate the 1st Amendment in the Bill of Rights.

    Essentially the Bill of Rights are laws that are protected by laws. And given the First Amendment freedoms, creativity is promoted.

    This is what makes America the home of innovation. Our laws have been working for us more than any other country thus far.

  12. Anonymous
    July 9th, 2007 at 11:14 pm

    Haha…the gov’t couldn’t take action? Seriously you should read this - TTAB did try. http://www.ropesgray.com/newspubs/detail.aspx?publication=612

    And based on what you are saying - Bill of Rights and First Amendment applies to Pornotube then. I see your article just lost all its legs.

    It seems this conversation is going off course. How did we end up with trumpeting America as the home of innovation???Really, dude - read up on some history before you get into a conversation. Don’t get me started with Dr. Wernher Magnus von Braun (Nazi Germany) and NASA’s space program. Guess who innovated? You’ve been drinking the America KoolAid I see. Damn, I always think we can have a conversation without trumpeting a country, flag or person - but no. I always come up against these flag-waving zealots. Anyway, its pointless continuing this thread.

    And by the way, sorry to say the First Amendment was also not revolutionary - see Ecclesiastes 8:8: “There is no man that hath power over the spirit, to retain it; neither hath he power in the day of death.”

    Why do people have to insist that one country, person or religion is greater than the rest? Like I said, you’ve been drinking the koolaid far too often. America the home of innovation? ROFL. The last I checked Math, Medicine, Rockets, Jet Engines, motor highways. Rest of the world - 5. America - 0.

    End of story. End of thread.

  13. Amit Chowdhry
    July 9th, 2007 at 11:55 pm

    Agreed. Solid debate though. I definitely learned something from this.

  14. ZolaEnterprises.com
    August 9th, 2007 at 5:43 pm

    I put the name of the site that I speak of and a link to their video websites section. I think we need more sites like this with sexy videos that are not porn videos. They are done in taste. you really need to see the better option than youtube at http://www.zolaenterprises.com/myspacevideos.htm (they are sure not myspace websites or videos for they are much better.

  15. Uhh, no.
    October 16th, 2007 at 12:41 pm

    Amit, you fundamentally don’t understand the internet and should probably stop writing about it, at least for now. Seriously.

  16. Amit Chowdhry, Blogging From Minneapolis
    October 16th, 2007 at 6:06 pm

    I probably have more knowledge about the Internet than all of the Seminoles combined, Uhh, no. Honestly, if you’re going to comment on my blog, you are going to have to produce more of a stance than that.

  17. Jbffed
    October 30th, 2007 at 10:47 am

    Amit, take a look at the 6th circuit court of appeals ruling regarding 2257 legislation being unconstitutional. This lends some weight to the argument in favour of these types of sites. Porn 2.0 sites like http://www.PornHub.com are the new wave of online porn. Why pay for porn when you get excellent content for free? Long live Porn 2.0!

  18. Amit Chowdhry
    October 30th, 2007 at 9:35 pm

    Jbffed, I’m not saying porn is bad. Some people thrive off it and make careers out of it. The point of this article is for Google to take action against people that use their name the same way Utube.com is suing YouTube.com.

    Google has already started taking actions against JewTube too:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/14/google-jewtube-is-not-ko_n_64490.html

  19. mario
    November 28th, 2007 at 9:29 am

    Yes her you have another Web, copies of youtube with
    adult content http://www.porn-video-tube.com

  20. Slappy K.
    January 3rd, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    Aggregating all of this adult video content onto a few adult video sharing YouTube clones is great, but who will aggregate the aggregators? For all of the buzz about “Porn 2.0,” a lot of these site’s content is short, choppy, and features performers you’ve never heard of (or would want to see).

    That’s why with our blog, SmutRocket (at http://www.smutrocket.com), we’re trying to make sense of it all. We feature new videos every day, culled from only the best clips from these types of sites. Check us out if you have a chance.

  21. Redhorse
    March 9th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    What a strange post this is. Who do you think you are? We WANT a pornotube to exist. At least one that’s ad-free, like YouTube is. Who gives a rats behind about its name. I never thought the name “YouTube” was that special or cool either.

    I hope many more, like redtube.com, youporn.com, xtube etc. etc. will appear and annopy the hell out of small-penised censoring bitter whiners like you.

    Yay pornotube, yay redtube, yay youporn. Way to go!

    Oh and Slappy K.:
    Blogs are fine, but they’re partial and people don’t like to be censored or directed. They like to make their own choices and NOT have some goody-two-shoes person “sorting it out for the best”. We LIKE bad video. Don’t you get that? We WANT to see bad product. As much as we like, and whenever we like.

  22. Amit Chowdhry
    March 9th, 2008 at 11:41 pm

    The point of this article was to provoke discussion that was revolving around the cease and desist YouTube put on JewTube.

    I had to use a catchy title to get people’s attention. It obviously worked on you, Redhorse.

    However, I was hoping for more of an intellectual discussion rather than a hostile one.

    I’d recommend reading the Porn chapter in the book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. It explains the obsession that people like yourself have for certain kinds of Internet porn. I didn’t quite understand it till now.

  23. Get a life.
    May 1st, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    I recommend getting a life. IF YouTube felt threatened at all by these websites they “would” take legal action. But the Internet is free and it should stay that way. Millions of people probably visit these sites and therefore there are millions of people who would disagree with you. I don’t understand it. But it is their rights along with creating a website that’s name is allowed by the domain. If I wanted to make a Yahoo site for martial arts and called it Yakickarse.com I could by law and thats the way it should be. Get a life. If you dont like it, don’t visit the site. The same people asking for the law to govern other people will be complaining when it affects them.

  24. goon
    May 4th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    http://www.p2-0.com
    combines all the web 2.0 adult streaming sites such as youporn, redtube.com, xtube.com, pornotube.com, pornhub.com in a search engine.
    Useful especially if you’re looking for a certain model/scene etc etc…

  25. rob
    May 17th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    These clones rock! Lots of people like porn, not everyone is ashamed of it. My favorite is Pornjay.com

  26. Carlos
    June 18th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    Dear Amit Chowdhry:

    You should ask yourself what leads you to decide what other people like, want or do.
    I believe you are eager to watch all kind of stuff, but dont allow yourself to do that, for reasons a psychologist could replidly find out.

    The easy way to blind yourself is disallowing others to do what your are afraid of, inhibited from o whatsoever worm is eating your brains.

  27. pornojig
    July 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 am

    PornoJig.com is one of the besy

  28. marl
    July 2nd, 2008 at 3:01 am

    http://pornojig.com is definately cool

  29. tom
    August 10th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    These clones rock its simmeler to myspacetv but for adults. My favorite is SexSpaceTV.com

  30. Free
    August 14th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Check out http://pornzala.com - it’s very good!

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