[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.