Talk:YouPorn/Archive 1

In order for me to archive this talkpage I've had to change "youporn.com" to "youporn .com" in all comments so when clicking various links here please remove the underscore from the URL (IE "youporn_.com")

Please Change: Ownership
The reference names in this article represent false information about the ownership of this company. Will someone please make the changes with valid information or delete the ownership section alltogether? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jetskiimike (talk • contribs) 23:42, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Portfolio Magazine says it is Stephen Paul Jones http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/10/15/YouPorn-Vivid-Entertainment-Profile#page1

Redtube
The link named RedTube links to the Wiki-page about amateur ponography. This should be fixed.


 * The list belongs better in Porn 2.0 which is where I moved it. AxelBoldt 21:52, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Corporate Agenda
Just wondering if it's worth mentioning Bill O'Reilly has talked about this site specifically on his show several times, even showing a screenshot of the entry page. He says bad things about it, but it's almost like he wants people to check it out. I'll see if I can find a citation on the fox website. CashDude (talk) 09:29, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * That's because Bill O' Reilly is a dirty little pig, don't forget about his phone-sex harassment scandal. He probably visits that site every night before going to bed ;D --Nabo0o (talk) 02:34, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Glitch
The glitch mentioned is now gone, when the leave button is pressed it leads to wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.29.40 (talk) 18:24, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Blocking
I think Malaysia blocks it too. Although the Malaysian government had promised under the MSC Agreement not to censor the internet, it appears that Malaysians (incl. me) cant access YouPorn. --60.50.73.210

Following a request by a competing pornography service, German provider Arcor started to block YouPorn and a few other porn sites at the routing level in September 2007[16], affecting over 2 million users.

Thats not correct. Arcors DNS-Server couldn't resolve in Sept 07, but IP wasn't blocked. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.67.134.210 (talk) 14:38, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Singapore
This site does not appear to be blocked in Singapore. Redtube however actually is. Can anyone else confirm this? PlopperZ (talk) 14:45, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * It's certainly blocked by Singtel with an MDA notice. Jpatokal (talk) 12:13, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

YouPorn has been called "a good role model for the sexually naive", as many of its homemade videos depict ordinary couples having ordinary sex, as opposed to the often unreal scenarios of commercial porn

Really? "ordinary couples"?? when was the last time you and your partner had sex with 6 other guys, in public. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.154.163.174 (talk) 14:37, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Uhh... Link plz. User:Bxistaken —Preceding undated comment was added at 03:02, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Turkey
Turkey blocks it either since 23.11.2007.

(Access to this web site is banned by "TELEKOMÜNİKASYON İLETİŞİM BAŞKANLIĞI" according to the order of: Eskişehir 2. Sulh Ceza Mahkemesi, 23.11.2007 of 2007/1705)

And also, Similar cases headed up to most user contribution called websites such as Youtube, xhamster.com, redtube.com. Furthermore, the most interesting part of Turkish Freedom of Speech is that Google is sued by ADD(Ataturkcu Dusunce Dernegi) whom are claimed to be the modernest side of Turkey. Indeed, it has been really hard time to find out who's been doing these ridiculous things after all.

Moreover, Turkey is the most amazing and dynamic political environment that has been identified by many of the middle east scholars. Although, new publications in the US specially Texas based STRATFOR intelligence company that predict, Turkey will be the leading country in the area of "Middle East" even USA wants it or not. There are still small but silent debate goes in the deep root of the government whether this unusual reaction of Turkey started with an "Inescapable Truth" minded action or this is part of a big plan that the residence of Turkey has not been realized yet but time to start understanding of questioning.

X Kta (talk) 20:29, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Downloading
The site appears to have removed the flv download link for the videos as of 9/15/2008. As of this date, there are no previews for any videos. Also, the "Related Videos" and "Featured Videos" sections are unpopulated or missing. Ara Praxis (talk) 20:18, 15 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Update

Some of the more recent videos have been showing previews for their movies. However, it seems that all amateur porn has been removed from the site and replaced with hardcore pornography. 98.150.166.112 (talk) 03:37, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah for some reason youporn deleted all of their videos about a month or 2 ago and replaced them with some new ones, and surprisingly it seems that amateur vids aren't being added anymore and a lot of the vids seem to be previews for movies you can buy and even feature a link to where you can buy it, personally this leads me to believe that sice youporn has has had an increase in good quality porn and a decrease in amateur porn that while the site still says that you can upload videos thaey really got rid of it and started adding their own vids, though it could also be that they deleted the old vids since alot of them were pirated and began adding only new ones of high quality and not amateur along with ones that they upload personally as ads so as to generate revenue. also i should note that lots of their vids say youporn at the bottom right hand corner. (207.172.55.227 (talk) 07:21, 1 November 2008 (UTC))

This article is inaccurate as it stands: the youporn site it describes does not exist anymore. All content is professionally made now and all amateur content has been taken down. Also users can not upload their homemade videos anymore. This article needs to be rewritten to reflect the new reality.

RfC: External links
Is it a reason for us not linking to www.youporn .com? Nsaa (talk) 16:57, 29 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I think there needs to be a clear reason for not linking if this is to be the case. A link would be natural in most circumstances, YouTube for example. Martin Hogbin (talk) 23:50, 30 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The link was blacklisted by a bot it seems, or on the advice of the bot, per the report at m:User:COIBot/LinkReports/youporn .com. I think it's just merely a matter of requesting the URL be unblocked as there doesn't appear to be any large scale spamming of the link occuring. -- Longhair\talk 01:58, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It's declined at meta:Talk:Spam_blacklist, It's possible to ask for a whitelisting at MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelist. Nsaa (talk) 09:37, 31 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I think the problem does not lie with linking to the main page but rather that some may add links to individual videos. Darrenhusted (talk) 10:00, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * In which case whitelisting should work - the "safe" home page, for example, can we whitelisted leaving the blacklist to block links to individual videos (at least I'm fairly certain that's how it works!) Unusual? Quite  TalkQu  21:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * German Wikipedia de:YouPorn uses a tinyurl kind of service to override the meta blacklist http://tiny.sk/ggd2kg7j, but I'm not sure if this is a good solution? Nsaa (talk) 11:16, 31 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm all for including a link. Is there anyone who opposes it? The issue with blacklists and botreverts is of later concern once there is a consensus that the link should be there. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 12:51, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Is the material legal in the US.? Is it non-copyvio? then there's no reason to avoid linking to it. The home page of the subject of the article should otherwise always be a link. WP is Not Censored. DGG (talk) 01:48, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

external link not working
editsemiprotected External links* www.youporn .com - Official Site is not working in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youporn
 * . The website is blacklisted so can't be linked too, so I removed the link altogether, the address is in the infobox if needed--Jac16888 (talk) 19:03, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

--- Stupid wikipedia censorship!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.29.87.194 (talk) 00:06, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

A sourced fact is misinterpreted as "Original Research"
Fact: When you press "Leave" on YouPorn's age-check page, you go to the multilingual Wikipedia portal page - WWW.wikipedia.org.

Source: The age-check page itself; simply press "Leave" and you'll see for yourself.

Reliable?: If it's the page of the subject of the article, you'd better darn well believe it is!

Original research: Theory without basis in fact nor a reliable source to back it up.

Is Original Research synonymous with solid fact?: This Wiktionary edit will tell you.

Despite evidence to the contrary, various users still revert the fact, persistently claiming "original research." --Let Us Update Special:Ancientpages. 18:53, 30 January 2009 (UTC)


 * If you select LEAVE on that site's opening page, on my PC at least, it takes you to http://www.wikipedia.org/. Why that would be, I couldn't say. The question is whether it does that for everyone, or if it only does it for those who happen to have a wikipedia cookie that it's latching onto somehow. So it's still, arguably, original research. You would be well-advised to find a reviewer somewhere that confirms its behavior. Beyond that, "if you do such-and-such" is not good encyclopedic writing. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 19:07, 30 January 2009 (UTC)


 * It's also not that interesting. A lot of adult websites have a "leave" option leading to an innocuous website. The New York Times and Disney.com seem fairly popular choices for this, but why does it bear mentioning in an article? GeeJo (t)⁄(c) &bull; 20:53, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

This article is inaccurate
Can somebody with editing priviledges please correct this article? As several users have pointed above, youporn is not a video sharing site anymore. Now is just a standard porn industry advertisement site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.157.219.49 (talk) 18:11, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Kirchberg?
The section on blocking in Germany makes several references to "Kirchberg". Who/what/where is this entity? GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 20:51, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Was asking this myself... -- 212.189.46.155 (talk) 10:47, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

It's the competitor mentioned in the first sentence of the paragraph. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.97.133.196 (talk) 19:46, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Kirchberg Logistik GmbH — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.203.221.239 (talk) 01:49, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

This Article Does Not Mention the Fact That...
...YouPorn is a major distributor of harmful malware.--66.177.73.86 (talk) 16:56, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Any proofs? examples? --SF007 (talk) 23:38, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * For more information, go to hosts-file.net.--66.177.73.86 (talk) 21:09, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * No, that doesn't say anything about that WhisperToMe (talk) 07:10, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Flash not needed
"Like many other such video sites, it requires the browser plug-in Flash technology." There is no such requirement. VLC media player and MPlayer play .flv just fine. That sentence could be merged with "YouPorn allows users to download the videos as Flash Video (.flv) files." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.89.70.13 (talk) 17:13, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Pending changes
This article is one of a small number (about 100) selected for the first week of the trial of the Pending Changes system on the English language Wikipedia. All the articles listed at Pending changes/Queue  are being considered for level 1 pending changes protection.

The following request appears on that page:

However with only a few hours to go, comments have only been made on two of the pages.

Please update the Queue page as appropriate.

Note that I am not involved in this project any more than any other editor, just posting these notes since it is quite a big change, potentially.

Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 20:52, 15 June 2010 (UTC).

Update: WorldWide Stats
CHANGE FROM: As of May 2011 it was the 83rd most popular website overall (it has since been overcome by xvideos.com as of July 8th, 2011).[3]

CHANGE TO: As of February 2012 YouPorn was ranked the .com/ 84th and .com 94th Most Trafficed Site in the World by Compete and Alexa respectively. YouPornJude (talk) 18:22, 7 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by YouPornJude (talk • contribs) 18:06, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Lawsuit Addition
Please Add:

On November 16, 2011, Manwin, the company that owns YouPorn, filed an Antitrust Lawsuit against ICANN and ICM. "In the lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the plaintiffs maintain that ICANN and ICM conspired to eliminate competitive bidding and any market restraints for certain .XXX registry services, with the intent to injure competition and consumers." YouPornJude (talk) 18:21, 7 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by YouPornJude (talk • contribs) 18:13, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Updated Images
Please update the on page images as follows:

Logo/Main Image: Updated Screenshot:

YouPornJude (talk) 18:20, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Formatting
Please change all on page instances of "Youporn" or "youporn" to "YouPorn".

YouPornJude (talk) 18:26, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

SOPA
Please Add:

On January 18, 2012, also known as "Blackout Day", YouPorn joined thousands of sites worldwide in protest of the proposed Stop Online Privacy Act [SOPA] by censoring the contents of it's website. In addition, YouPorn took to Twitter to raise awareness of the impending legislation, successfully making "Save Porn" the #1 Trending Topic Worldwide for several hours and generating more than 9500 retweets. In a post made January 19, 2012 (the day after "Blackout Day"), Klout released a SOPA Influencers Summary noting YouPorn as the 15th most influential Twitter account on the topic of SOPA on the day of the protest.

YouPornJude (talk) 18:43, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect Information
PLEASE REMOVE: The terms of service document explicitly refers to California law.[8]

The above information is FALSE. Jurisdiction if CYPRUS as per the current terms of service.

YouPornJude (talk) 18:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Update Headquarters
Current HQ: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

YouPornJude (talk) 18:55, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Used infrastructure
It would be nice to mention that YouPorn used to be built on top of Catalyst (software), but they switched to Symfony. They also use Redis (and MySQL) as database.

Sources: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/symfony-devs/WGMooRPjmEY https://groups.google.com/d/topic/redis-db/d4QcWV0p-YM

--Athaba (talk) 23:06, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Blacklisted Links Found on the Main Page
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Blocking/Turkey
After technical analysis and legal consideration based on the Law Nr. 5651, ADMINISTRATION MEASURE has been taken for this website (youporn .com) (youporn .com) according to Decision Nr. 421.02.02.2010-072987 dated 03/03/2010 of "Telekomünikasyon İletişim Başkanlığı" Source --88.235.11.187 (talk) 15:10, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 7 April 2016
add the launch date by inserting "|launch date = { {start date and age|2006|8|26} }" in the template

http:// blog.youporn .com/happy-birthday-youporn-looking-back-at-9-years-of-free-porn/

172.58.184.72 (talk) 10:01, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yellow check.svg Partly done: I added the launch date, but YouPorn is a blacklisted site, so I wasn't able to add the reference. clpo13(talk) 16:21, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

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YouTubeGay
Why did you remove the YouPornGay section without talking first? --Msrainbow (talk) 20:28, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Because it's spam. There's an explicit warning in the comments not to do that. Kleuske (talk) 20:29, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Kleuske How can it be spam when they own that domain too? Is it spam to mention gaytube.com on the page too? (lol) --Msrainbow (talk) 20:35, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The domain does not matter. And yes. Kleuske (talk) 20:36, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * youporn .com is mentioned in url = so I added youporngay.com there too. Why didn't you just do that? --Msrainbow (talk) 20:39, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Why should I? Kleuske (talk) 20:40, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Are you going to remove it again for me? =) --Msrainbow (talk) 20:41, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Have you had a look on MindGeek? That page contains tons of domains, do you dare to remove all of them? --Msrainbow (talk) 20:45, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

See WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Kleuske (talk) 20:48, 9 October 2016 (UTC)


 * YouPornGay has no relevence here nor will it have any relevence so pack it in adding it everywhere. – Davey 2010 Talk 20:52, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

I didn't see youporn .com or youporngay.com on MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist, where is it listed Davey2010Kleuske? --Msrainbow (talk) 21:17, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * It doesn't need to be on the blacklist to be spam, It's spam end of. – Davey 2010 Talk 21:22, 9 October 2016 (UTC)