Tubes: porn’s greatest enemy.

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The adult entertainment business is being torn to shreds by websites exploiting a loophole in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), according to porn trade news magazine XBiz

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On one side are the studios and content producers that create the content. On the other, are so-called “tube” sites—websites modeled after YouTube

that allow users to upload any video clips they like. A massive amount of pirated content is now available for free at places like youporn.com and redtube.com, and the DMCA isn’t much help to the studios in getting copyrighted videos

taken down. It’s actually hurting the industry economically, according to USAToday

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The law’s “safe harbor” provision assumes that tube sites don’t know that their content is pirated, as long as they delete infringing content on demand. The problem is that content goes up faster than studios can issue demands for it to be taken down. Worse, some companies upload content themselves while pretending their users have done it.

The publication cites one lawyer who has filed “dozens” of suits on behalf of porn studios against tube sites.

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