YouTube suffers from porn movie blues

 

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By Barry Collins

Posted on 22 May 2009 at 12:15

YouTube has been deluged with hundreds of porn movie clips as part of an organised strike against the video-sharing site.

The attack was co-ordinated by members of the 4Chan bulletin board, a site that hosts plenty of eye-watering adult content of its own.

Hundreds of site members were uploading pornographic material and labelling it with the names of teenage celebrities such as Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers. The 4Chan members were then giving positive ratings to the video clips to help boost their popularity on the site.

The site's members were reportedly protesting against YouTube's decision to remove copyrighted music videos from the site, which resulted from Google's failure to secure a licensing deal with the major music labels.

Google is deleting the pornographic material from the site and suspending the accounts of anyone found to be uploading adult material.