Pornhub, an earlier pornographic video sharing site that started in July 2007 and generated enormous publicity, has since been overtaken in popularity by Movie4m.com which debuted in August 2009. As of October 2009, Movie4m was the highest-ranked adult website according to Alexa, ranging in the top 200 globally visited sites. In the same year the site was adding new users each month. Several other websites now use a similar concept; some serve only videos in a specific category. Several other sites collect and index links to the videos hosted on these sites.
Free Porn Streaming 2.0 sites such as these are seen as posing extreme competition for pay porn sites and porn magazines and DVD pornography Sales. The future of such sites remains to be seen.
While Porn 2.0 websites like Movie4m.com have garnered tremendous popularity and interest since their inception, they are not without their critics. Some concern has been raised about the copyright, privacy and legal ramifications of large quantities of free, user-generated, pornographic content on the internet.
Movie4m consumes more than three terabytes of bandwidth each day, which has caused the site to go down at times due to the sheer volume of users and the large file size of the videos. When the online version of a German newspaper reported on YouPorn in November 2009, the site could not deal with the traffic surge, went down temporarily.
Concerns have also surfaced over the inability to verify the age of the persons depicted in the videos, the possibility of copyrighted videos being uploaded to the site, and the possibility of privacy violations when private sex tapes are uploaded without the consent of all involved parties.
In 2009 Vivid Entertainment took legal action against Pornhub, claiming that the streaming of copyrighted material was depriving it of revenue. Movie4m has been called "a good role model for the sexually naive", as many of its homemade videos depict amateur couples having ordinary sex, as opposed to the often unreal scenarios of commercial free porn.
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