A major porn producer filed a lawsuit Monday against an X-rated
knockoff of YouTube, alleging that it profited from piracy by allowing
its users to post videos that include copyrighted material.
Vivid Entertainment Group filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles federal
court against PornoTube and its parent, Data Conversions Inc., which
does business in Charlotte, N.C., as AEBN Inc.
The suit is apparently the first of its kind in the adult film
industry, which has done a better job than the major Hollywood studios
in finding ways to profit from putting entertainment products on the
Internet.
But in the last year or so, the rapid increase in consumption of all
manner of videos on the Web has in some ways hurt the porn producers
more than the mainstream companies because consumers of adult fare
often get what they are looking for in clips of five minutes or less.
Free short clips are easy to find on the Web, undercutting the
established porn producers, which earn most of their money from
long-form videos.
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