Vivid Sues Porntube

[RawAlex]

It is an interesting move, mostly when it gets down to Cambria's statement that "Vivid should not have to take responsibility for policing PornoTube on a minute by minute basis to protect its rights". It is in some ways an attempt to kill off certain parts of DMCA which are actively being abused by tube / torrent / file trade sites. What was suppose to be an "oops" clause has turned into more of a "neener-neener" way of stealing anything you want.

While I don't think that AEBN would agree to it, I do wonder if a case like this isn't a bit of a straw defendant thing, where the greater good of the industry will be made by Vivid winning this type of case, essentially putting every other tube or user upload style site on the legal ropes. In the end, sites like AEBN would benefit from increased surfer traffic looking to actually pay for porn if the porn isn't available for free.