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11-09-2006, 04:58 AM
Google Should Destroy PornoTube and Other YouTube Porn Clones (http://pulse2.com/2006/11/08/google-should-destroy-pornotube-and-other-youtube-porn-clones/)
Let’s say you take TIME Magazine’s Invention of the Year (http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/inventions/youtube.html) 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.” (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051009-161303) and how Flickr wanted to patent the word “Interestingness” (http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060242139%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060242139&RS=DN/20060242139) 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 (http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/youtube-has-porn-clone/). “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!”
more whining (http://pulse2.com/2006/11/08/google-should-destroy-pornotube-and-other-youtube-porn-clones/)
Let’s say you take TIME Magazine’s Invention of the Year (http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/inventions/youtube.html) 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.” (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051009-161303) and how Flickr wanted to patent the word “Interestingness” (http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060242139%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060242139&RS=DN/20060242139) 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 (http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/youtube-has-porn-clone/). “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!”
more whining (http://pulse2.com/2006/11/08/google-should-destroy-pornotube-and-other-youtube-porn-clones/)