The porn industry has always had an “early adopter” model. We’ve covered a few porn related sites that have adopted new web features in the past (notably Heatseek and Social Porn). PornoTube (Note: NOT WORK SAFE), which integrates YouTube-like features, is the most recent example of the trend. While YouTube has a clear policy banning porn, PornoTube has a policy that is just the opposite.
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. 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.
The site is free for users. For more technically saavy users, bittorent has long been a source of free pornography. But PornoTube, which is usable by anyone with a computer, could be disruptive to sites that are charging for similar content. I imagine PornoTube will have similar copyright issues as YouTube, however, and will have to pull that content down over time.
They even have a “beta” in their logo. Check it out, if it’s your thing.
“… if it’s your thing”.
Good one!
What a foolish thing to write about.
I hate seeing stuff like this on techcrunch, but porn is such a huge business and it is interesting to see how their business models are changing to adapt stuff like youtube which is clearly a good model. thanks for at least bringing it to our attention
Mike,
I usually hear about new stuff first on your site….but you were a little slow on this one. This is over a week old. The alexa spike has happened, and wasn’t caused by TechCrunch ;). Enjoy
Why didn’t i think of that…
“What a foolish thing to write about.What a foolish thing to write about.”
Foolish? It’s a massive industry with millions of customers that very often determines the shape and direction of technology. There’s nothing foolish about it.
Bipto - I realize that, but really… is there anything that significant about it that distinguishes it from regular sites? People aren’t going to be uploading videos they made themselves for the most part like YouTube. You won’t have the viral effect either. You’ll just have some people uploading lots and lots of copyrighted porn that’s all over the internet already. Basically if you’re going to write about this you might as well write about each new BitTorrent index site.
If it’s your thing well of course its anybody’s thing, who doesnt like a little porno here and there when your girlfriend goes away for a week with her friends for a girls week out at the beach and your left home alone going to work everyday no one to love you and you get lonely so….
Great idea -
the only flaw is that they could have a front page - informing potential viewers about the various legaleese (as if that would have any effect on them) :LOL
YouTube should have a Sex section, perhaps with a seperate subdomain -
There is no eally need for society to be so schizo about this - how were we all conceived (duh) ????????
Jesus Seth, take it easy man.
Mike,
Heatseek and now Pornotube…Did you spend more time reviewing these than the others…just kiddin!
Lux,
Why not cover it? The porn industry has in many cases been in the forefront of adopting technology on the web…it is also a multi-billion dollar industry. I ran across pornotube a couple of weeks ago. When I first saw it, I was surprised that we had not seen someone create something similar earlier.
Chris,
Pornotube actually has a daily ranking of 748..impressive for such a young site…considering the current ranking, age of the site, and the content (porn)..this site could be really huge very quickly….
We were all conceived through porn!
I came across another one just yesterday, xtube.com. Unlike pornotube, you do have to register to view any videos.
Um… where are the sex content / age warnings that all other such sites have before displaying any content?
Who are the founders in the site and / or investors? Anyone have any idea? Thanks
Sites like these are content provider’s nightmare. A lot of copyright infringement going on here.
thanks for the link..
So they can keep serving Flash Media Server content even after the Techcrunch effect! There should be VC - angel (or devil :P) money behind!
There is also a Digg-type porno site - http://www.idigporn.com
It crashes half way through each month because they go through so much bandwidth. I know because someone told me - seriously.
This site is more than a week old. I know because I looked at it a few weeks old. I didn’t see anything THAT exciting there, though. Copy-cat applied to porn, just like socialporn.com (go copy/paste, don’t be shy) is a copy-cat based on the social bookmarking model a la Simpy.com .
Perhaps it’s pathetic (or maybe just a little funny), but this site will soon surpass TechCrunch, Digg, and Slashdot.
I may never visit Techcrunch again. I’m busy at another site.
It should have been…. lubetube.com
Mike,
Why am I not surprised that it was you rather than Marshall that wrote this review???
Now I know when you claim to be “busy” or “travelling” you’re actually researching your next review.
(we kid because we care)
I think this can be a subject for techcrunch. Porn is a business, and a HUGE business. Just because it is a sensitive subject for some or because most of us would never go into business in this industry doesnt mean that it cant be profiled on TC, I think this is a good post Marshall.
I thought this was a joke article… Joke is on me… Good thing I didn’t have a look at work. Any idea what the revenue model is? I didn’t see any ads.
What is wrong with you? Why are you covering trash like this? You should be ashamed of yourself.
Jim, see comments #3, #11 and #24.
I am happy that he’s not a hypocrite. Pron is part of life, and should be covered.
PrOn rulez!
F**k around
LOL
the site’s title is hilarious
The obvious answer is for Michael to launch PornCrunch - a blog covering Porn 2.0.
What about 2257? it seems like these guys are in violation?
That site is in serious need of a wang filter.
And you thought YouTube’s “Terms of Service” were bad …
porn was the driving force behind VCR and DVD. why not internet? i can’t believe anybody could be offended by your review. most of youtube video clips are low quality bs’s, which are no better than porn…
Jesus,
This should not be free site.
I am sure this will grow much faster that youtube.com
I don’t see how pornotube is going to be able to exist when they have no way of discerning the age of the participants in some of their amateur videos. It’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
JIM…I think u need to go get laid ..u freaking test tube baby!!!
Mike, did you register PornCrunch.com for future? or did somebody else?
Also, the porn industry doesn’t go after copyrights as the regular industry.
Andy,
Ah, no, sadly I am not the registrant of that particular domain name.
I’ve been following techcrunch for quite some time now. Although i appreciate that you have spoken about the dirty version of Youtube, the post seems much like glorifying the porn site more than providing information.
If you restricted yourself to providing tech info (which you guys are doing a good job of) we would be very appreciative indeed.
Please be informed that your site reaches different age groups and many of your ‘cutomers’ would have formed an image about your site.
I’m not not against porn or nudity, but sometimes you go overboard with posts like these..
Even youtube is bordering around porn with suggestive videos or so called porn videos of the non-nude kind….
i found your post thru digg and i guess most will be using the linsk in your post to vsisit the actual site; this may not be the intended use..
Though techcrunch and your authors have the final say in the content of the blog, once you reach out to a particular auidence, you have to maintain that level of professionalism that you have been showing.
Cheers
Hey,
Whats news about this? There are already dozens, if not hundreds, sites all over the internet, which are for porn video sharing.
A few months ago, I tried to register YouBoob.com–it was already taken, so much for my big shot!
Firstly, I appreciate coverage like this. Porn is a huge business and drives technology adoption. Secondly, I’m kinda suprised no-one has picked up who owns this site… It is aebn (aebn.net or Adult Entertainment Broadcast Network) who run the adult industry’s largest legal video on demand site, a behemoth which has thousands of DVD’s and an Alexa Rank of 162 (and I’m assuming is insanely profitable!). So they’re clearly not toooo worried about the copyright aspect because if it hurts anyone, it hurts them first.
I guess, sex sells. Always!
Mike -
Nice find, yeah the url is pretty good. Great idea, we will see how it works out. There are infinite ways to turn this in to a cash cow. Think about a membership fee. That is always fund and simple. The biggest issue / possibility will be how will the service be able to compensate the production company of the videos? Obviously, home made porn is fine, but for the people uploading copyright material something needs to be done. They would have to have a pretty solid sales / bd team working on strategic rev share plans with the labels..
Pretty cool, it will be a race to see who will win and successfully be able to pull it off.
If anyone is interesting with the execs who is behind this pornotube.com can be found here; http://www.myspace.com/eroticnudes
P.S. My Blog is back, http://www.joshstomel.com
I have already talk about this here:
http://dariosalvelli.wordpress.....-for-hard/
50+ comments so far, and as far as I can see, its all guys. The crossroads of technology and porn are a man’s domain - even the comments speaking out against TC posts like this are men.
Are their women out there that care at all about new and slick ways to deliver porn content? If not, perhaps they should. Xeni where are you now?!!!
FREE PORNOTUBE!!!
Another YouTube clone - I looked at some of the other AEBN sites, and they are just copies/clones - nothing original, but they are badly done.
Their Youtube clone is full of copyright infringements, and tons of possible underage videos. I wonder if FBI will visit them soon?