PornoTube & Politicians

What's one of the fastest growing online video sites?

Sure, YouTube has vaulted itself into becoming the fifth-most popular site on the Web according to Alexa's traffic rankings.

But, YouTube has a dirty cousin who likes girls gone wild, gay sex, and fetishes of all stripes.  This bad boy is named PornoTube, and he's sprung into the top-200 most visited sites on the Internet.

Just to name two examples, consider how PornoTube is doing against Sony's owned online video site, Grouper, and the venerable Washington Post....

The tech policy implications should be obvious.  If they're not, here's blurb from the DailyReel that looks at the recent explosion of easily accessible online video porn on the Web ....

If parents want to keep images of graphic sex hidden away from their little darlings, they might have to throw away their computers. With the explosion of online video, a surge of YouTube inspired sex-sites has arrived.  Borrowing the same upload model and willful disregard for copyright laws, the next generation of porn sites have made it a whole lot easier for little Johnny to watch videos with names like "teens in satin panties" and "Adriana Sage rides the monkey rocker.

So, considering this, what's the over/under on when the phrase "PornoTube" gets entered into the Congressional Record?  How about this June?  Bets will be taken offline.

While we're at it, let's also wager that unless the nascent online video industry gets together and creates a self-regulatory structure that acknowledges the visual power of the medium, it's pervasiveness and accessibility, than there is going to lots of defense played when regulators start thinking about the differences between the TV set in the living room and the PC in their 14-year-old's bedroom.

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