Manwin and Pink Visual Answer Your Digital Finger Printing/Filtering Questions

Just some food for thought here:

When you go to Pornhub and click the "Categories" tab you get a breakdown by category of all their videos. Beside each category is a number showing the total number of videos in that category. If one were so inclined one could add them all together. I am so inclined. It comes out to around 150,000 videos. However, when you upload a video to Pornhub you are prompted to select 3 categories your video could fall under, so in reality, the total number of videos on Pornhub is probably more like 50,000 (not sure if their private videos are included in their totals or not).

The user I pointed out in the "other" thread started by DirtyWhiteBoy was a user going by the name of jj09. (http://www.pornhub.com/users/jj09) He had uploaded 2,209 videos and we all identified quite a few infringing ones on his first page of uploads, certainly enough to qualify him as a repeat offender. In fact just the fact that ONE of his uploads is infringing constitutes a violation of the PornHub TOS since before you can upload anything you must agree that:

"By clicking "Upload Video", you are representing that this video does not violate Pornhub's Terms of Use and that you own all copyrights in this video or have authorization to upload it."

Were Pornhub to enforce their TOS and remove jj09's account and ALL the videos he's uploaded it would result in the removal of 2200+ vids or about 5% of the total videos on Pornhub. Sound like a cost effective solution to anyone else?

But I hear ya...5% isn't enough. Well lucky for us jj09 uses his blog on pornhub to tell us about the other "hard working uploaders here". Let's look at their profiles shall we?

http://www.pornhub.com/users/amsterdamxxx - 2036 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/drsweary -540 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/tinalovesv -2393 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/alphaporn - 246 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/great-gonzo - 171 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/KevDaMacDaddyMac -106 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/kev1mac - 113 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/DragonGold - 446 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/nightvisions - 112 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/ivannicta - 540 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/drkhalf2 - 355 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/jakkups - 458 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/MRFREAKYD - 596 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/fooker79 - 232 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/kb24 - 451 videos
http://www.pornhub.com/users/KeV08 - 312 videos

This is just from jj09's little circle of friends. 11,316 videos and I'll betcha nearly all of them are copyright infringing. What do you guys think, would you like to see almost 22% of Pornhub's videos removed by just them enforcing their TOS? What if the FSC had pressured Manwich to just enforce their TOS?

Oh and here's a comment on the profile of corey999 (http://www.pornhub.com/users/corey999):
"jj was telling me you deal with vid uploads iwas just wondering if its the norm for the hub to pimp ur vids i was quite happy with the few watching them and sum of them now have crazy amounts of veiws just wonderd thats all cheers "

Apparently corey999 works for Pornhub as he puts out notifications of updates and also seems to be friends with .... wait for it... jj09! http://www.pornhub.com/users/corey99...ndships&page=4

Apparently corey999 is friends with ALMOST ALL of the uploaders I mentioned above. They come to his profile and tell him how much they appreciate him and everything! And it looks like maybe he gives preferential placement to his buds on there. Sounds like being selective to me? Hey Fabian...doesn't that mean you lose your Safe Harbor protection? Go ask your lawyers...we'll see ya in a few months when you come back to evade the question again.

Yes we can, it's called repeat infringer policy. And currently, it falls shut as soon as the user uploads (I think, would have to verify to be sure) 3 videos that get DMCAd. The account is then shutdown.

If you think this is not correct, do let me know of a user where you feel this is not the case, so I can investigate myself.

All of this obviously only applies to post March 1st 2010.

Nathan:
This guy has been uploading tons of our movies- http://www.pornhub.com/users/bong/
We have sent you dozens of DMCA's on this guy AFTER March 1st 2010. Why is he still an active user? Over 500,000 people have watched these movies so far.

Please advise.

Nathan:
This guy has been uploading tons of our movies- http://www.pornhub.com/users/bong/
We have sent you dozens of DMCA's on this guy AFTER March 1st 2010. Why is he still an active user? Over 500,000 people have watched these movies so far.

Please advise.

Yeah, I'd say "digital fingerprinting" that PV jumped in bed with Manwin on hasn't really changed Pornhub one little bit (I really never thought it would anyway)

I don't go there except when I see a thread like this. And it looks EXACTLY the way it did in Oct. when this big announcement was made (that's EIGHT MONTHS of people's work being monetized by Manwin and devalued for the producers).

Have any of you guys that go to pornhub ever actually hit one of those videos where the stolen content was replaced by a trailer? lol