YouPorn - Wikipedia

YouPorn - Wikipedia

YouPornis a freepornographicvideo-sharingwebsite owned byAylothat launched in August 2006.

YouPorn’s own site reports that its owner is Midstream Media International N.V., seated inWillemstad, the capital city ofCuraçao, an island in the southernCaribbean Seathat forms aconstituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.[2]The site is run from a hosting service in Texas, although one reporter described the site as “German-based”.[3]

In 2011, YouPorn was purchased by the adult entertainment and IT companyManwin, owners of other popular pornographic websites such asPornhub[1]and SpankWire based inLuxembourg.[4]

As of 2012,[update]ExtremeTechreported YouPorn transferred an average of 950 TB per day,[5]up from a reported figure of 3 TB per day in 2006.[6]

Concerns have surfaced over the inability to verify the age of the persons depicted in the videos, the possibility ofcopyrightedvideos being uploaded to the site, and the possibility of privacy violations when private sex tapes are uploaded without the consent of all involved parties.[3]In 2007Vivid Entertainmenttook legal action against YouPorn, claiming that the streaming of copyrighted material was depriving it of revenue.[7]

YouPorn has been called “a good role model for the sexually naive”, as many of its homemade videos depict amateur couples having ordinary sex (known as “Amateur”), as opposed to the often unreal scenarios of commercial porn.[8]

In February 2012, the site was hacked, with the details of over 1 million users leaked onto the Internet. MindGeek blamed this on the failings of a third-party chat service.[9]

After France passed a law requiring age verification for pornographic sites in June 2025, Aylo blocked access to YouPorn, as well as RedTube and Pornhub in France.[10]

German law does not allow hardcore pornography without an effective age verification system, and the GermanFederal Department for Media Harmful to Young Personsplaced YouPorn on its index. As a result, since April 2007, the German site of theGooglesearch engine classified YouPorn as a hardcore pornography website[11]and replaced it with a link toChilling Effects, claiming that a “German regulatory body reported illegal material”.[12]

Following a request by Kirchberg, the owner of a competing pornography service (now defunct),[13]German providerArcorcategorized YouPorn and a few other porn sites as hardcore pornographic and also blocked access to the website at the routing level in September 2007,[14]affecting over 2 million users. TheGerman Pirate Partypromptly opened aproxy serverso that Arcor customers could continue to easily access YouPorn.

Arcor lifted the block on September 17 because theIP address-based filter which had been set up for YouPorn adversely affected other sites.[15]Kirchberg then sued, alleging that Arcor aided unfair competition by YouPorn, and on October 19, 2007, obtained a temporary injunction ordering Arcor to resume limiting the accessibility to YouPorn.com.[16][17]On October 23, 2007, Arcor started to control access to YouPorn again, this time with aDNS-based approach that is easily circumvented,[18]and successfully filed an appeal against the injunction.[19]

Kirchberg has sent notices to 19 GermanISPsdemanding that YouPorn be granted access limitations, but none have complied.[20]Efforts by Kirchberg to obtain injunctions regarding YouPorn from internet providers inKielandDüsseldorfwere unsuccessful.[21][22]

In May 2008 it was reported thatSingaporehad blocked access to YouPorn andRedTube, in what a government officials described as “a symbolic statement”.[23]

In July 2009Sri Lankablocked access to 12 porn web sites including YouPorn,RedTube,XVideosandxHamster. On July 25, 2009, Sri Lanka Chief Magistrate Nishantha Hapuarachchi ordered the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission to block those 12 websites from all local Internet Service Providers.[24][25]

The Government of India banned YouPorn in 2018, among other porn websites, after aUttarakhand High Courtcourt order demanding the same in a rape case where the perpetrators stated they were motivated to do so after watching online pornography.[26]

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