[hamolton]

I don't know if this is true, but I read somewhere that Pornhub/Mindgeek was a "fake-it-til-you-make-it piracy site", and still is for studios that aren't active about takedown requests, except with their money they were able to buy a lot of the IP from studios that had shut down due to streaming.

[makomk]

That's more or less true of all the tube-style porn sites (of which Pornhub ended up the biggest an Mingeek ended up owning most of them), but it's also a little different in that, much like YouTube, they were ostensibly intended to allow people to upload their own videos that they'd created and quite a few did. Honestly, I think the commercial porn industry saw that as just as much of a threat as the actual piracy and a lot of the hostility came from permitting this kind of user-created content.

[fishbacon]

A recent video by youtuber We're in hell actually covers this quite well imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEYB02EZtVs

[hamolton]

Ah so I was right! I didn't expect to be watching a 48 min youtube commentary video, but here I am.