It sounds like other sites (not pornhub.com) have the porn video she’s trying to remove, and she doesn’t understand that Pornhub isn’t in control of them. Doesn’t really seem like Pornhub’s at fault here, and I question the motives of a journalist who writes something like this
If you've been paying attention to the news in the past few years, its been increasingly obvious the lack of research and effort put into new posts. We live in the era of social media where the headline is the only thing that 99% of people read. The actual content of the article is irrelevant. People will be outraged for a second and then continue scrolling and completely forget it existed 5 minutes later. There is no economic incentive for journalists to do any real journalism.
> It sounds like other sites (not pornhub.com) have the porn video she’s trying to remove, and she doesn’t understand that Pornhub isn’t in control of them. Doesn’t really seem like Pornhub’s at fault here
(1) Given the nature of the pornography industry, most sites are owned by a small number of players, so it's definitely not clear that Pornhub isn't in control of them.
(2) As the article describes, Pornhub offers a service which is exactly what she is demanding: 'Pornhub offers something called its “exclusive model program,” which promises that it will send takedown notices to any website to “help protect your content from being uploaded to other websites.”' And so even if Pornhub is not in control of the sites where the video is hosted, they already advertise the ability to get content taken down from other sites.
>(1) Given the nature of the pornography industry, most sites are owned by a small number of players, so it's definitely not clear that Pornhub isn't in control of them.
It also doesn't mean they are in control of them. I think it's reasonable to assume that PornHub doesn't own every site the video was uploaded on.
>Pornhub offers a service which is exactly what she is demanding
This is almost certainly on the basis of copyright. As in, those 'exclusive models' sign over the copyright to their content to PornHub, or authorize PornHub to act on their behalf as copyright holders. PornHub then issus DMCA takedown notices or uses some other 'takedown notice'.
In order for this to work, she would have to be the copyright owner of the video. If anything, in a horribly ironic twist, her ex-husband is likely the copyright holder. She has no standing (speaking in terms of copyright) to get PH to protect her video like they do with the exclusive model program.
If you know more about how it works, then please inform me, but I can only assume it's copyright.
> I think it's reasonable to assume that PornHub doesn't own every site the video was uploaded on.
Yep, that is reasonable. It's also reasonable to assume they do own some of the sites the video was uploaded on, given they share videos between their own sites—and Pornhub seems unwilling to distinguish between the two.
> If you know more about how it works, then please inform me, but I can only assume it's copyright.
I have no idea, although telling her that would help, because she could pursue getting the copyright on the video from her ex-husband, given he's already going to be in serious legal trouble due to the videos. But instead, they pretended they had no way of handling anything like this.
