Tips to make a legal Adult Tube Site

**pocholo** · 04-23-2009, 12:42 PM

The legality of many adult tube sites is very questioned.

According to news published on Xbiz, many of the big adults tube sites have been reported by producers: Redtube, Pornotube, Xtube, and some more. The sentences are millionaires.

Most which we have sites of this type, we can not afford to deal with these huge amounts of money. Then, how we can focus the creation of a tube site from the legality?

A way might be to contact with the producers to offer to them to upload their videos to our sites for a fixed price and, by means of a link, to promote the buy of the complete video. But, these producers can denounce us when we contact with them?

What do you think about it? What steps must be followed to have a legal tube site?

Bplex, your experience on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

**bplex** · 04-23-2009, 02:17 PM

Making a legal tube site in general is extremely difficult to do. The problem is that most international laws prohibit the distribution of copyrighted material. In the United States, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) explicitly prohibits the redistribution of electronic copyrighted material without prior consent from the copyright holders. Many adult tube sites attempted to avoid this by using a clause in the DMCA which does not allow for copyright holders to prosecute a transparent medium. However, what many people fail to realize is that the DMCA only prevents prosecution if the transparent medium's owner is unaware of the violation. Once made aware of the violation, they are required to remove the offending item. Failure to remove the item can result in prosecution. This is what got PornHub in trouble (and is also why many tube sites are moving to a paid [aka "premium"] structure). The truth is that it takes a lot of money, time, and experience to run an adult tube site. It also takes a lot of experience to run one that is profitable. If you are looking for tips on running a legal adult tube, here is what I would suggest:

1. Only allow for people to upload amateur content (amateur as in home-made and not production amateur). Amateur content does not fall into the copyright laws. Further, manually verify that your members are compliant. Many people will attempt to upload stuff that contains links, etc. For videos like that, delete them or do not approve them. People will complain, but in the end, it's your site and you can do whatever you want with it.

2. Provide the studios with a mechanism for uploading their own content. Further, work directly with the studios on putting their content online. Note, however, that most studios will not even talk to you unless your site is worth their time so be sure that your site is unique and has a lot of quality traffic before even approaching them.

3. Do not "swipe" videos. Swiping violates two copyrights. First, it violates the content owners copyright as they did not give you permission to host the video. Second, it violates the site that you swiped the video from as they did not give you permission to swipe it.

4. Any "house" content should be purchased by content distributors and should come with either broadcast or public viewing rights. This means that if you purchase content to go on your site, that content should not be for "private use" such as adult DVDs. Rather, it should come with distribution rights (so that you can show the video on your site).

**bigoboy** · 04-23-2009, 05:02 PM

Bplex has hit it on the head. I use to run a torrent tracker site www.torrentstorage.com and found myself getting multiple dmca emails everyday. Torrent technology is a Grey area since the actual content is not hosted on the server. All you provide is a hash that allows users to connect to each other to share this content. Video hosting is the opposite. The content is actually on the server meaning it would make a easy way to prosecute you .
You must agree with the dmca and remove copyrighted content as its requested in a timely manner. keep in mind that it cost a lot on money for the owner to actually take you to court meaning a bulk of the threats are shallow .
keep in mind that all countries have different laws that don't apply everywhere. you need to know what laws apply to the country your server is located at. Until your site becomes a house hold name like youporn rebtube or so on you will stay under the radar. Most of these company can care less about a site that only get s a few hundred hits a day. They may make threats, but the reality of the situation is its not worth their time to fuck with you .
So its as easy as sticking to homemade videos and buying the rights to professional videos.
I must also tell you if you dont have a fat bank account or a shit load of time than you better consider trying to market something other than porn. The industry is cut throat and without 100 percent of your dedication you site will vanish just as fast as it arrived in your brain.
I currently make 600 - 1000 a month at www.monitorporn.com
You must be prepared to invest a 100 percent of that back or your not going to go anywhere.
Regards

**pocholo** · 04-23-2009, 10:25 PM

Well, it is evident that in any business that begins it is necessary to invert 100 % of the time, it is a porn or not.

I currently make 300-400 a month. The site is focused exclusively to Spanish speaking visitors (Spanish, Latin american and hispanic USA visitors). The problem is that the Hispanic people are resistent enough to pay with card for Internet. They prefer paying for sms or phone. We are the only ones with a site in this niche (gay pron) destined for Spanish speaking, but it is difficult to make money with the site for this motive.

Besides, it is necessary to add the expense inverted in the servers. The bandwidth is very expensive. And though you make a premium section / pay section (buying feeds like pluginfeeds, etc) the major part of the users they continue consuming big quantities of the bandwidth of the free section.

It is difficult to find an average point to convert better.

Provide the studios with a mechanism for uploading their own content. Further, work directly with the studios on putting their content online. Note, however, that most studios will not even talk to you unless your site is worth their time so be sure that your site is unique and has a lot of quality traffic before even approaching them.

What mechanism? It's not enough to provide a username and password so they can upload videos? Or you mean to create a script for this use?

**bplex** · 04-23-2009, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by pocholo

What mechanism? It's not enough to provide a username and password so they can upload videos? Or you mean to create a script for this use?

No studio is going to take the time to upload videos to your site (at least, not any that are willing to pay you for it). Rather, they normally provide you with feeds or links and it is up to you to consume that data.