Sometime near the end of 2022, users of PornWild suddenly found themselves cut off from access to the site. Feelings of frustration (of a decidedly un-sexual nature) took hold. Yet this wasn’t an unusual occurrence since PornWild thrived on pirated content.
But what precisely happened to the site, and why? We’ll investigate further today to discover the answer and see if we can un-frustrate those users.
What is (or was) PornWild?
PornWild was an adult-content website that streamed videos to users. In its heyday, you could access the site and watch any number of videos for free. For revenue, it included ad links in many areas of the site.
Like many such sites in existence, PornWild thrived on user-uploaded content. By right, users could film their videos and upload them for others to watch. It was amateur smut production at its best.
What Happened to PornWild?
User-generated content is popular today since websites can profit from their users’ efforts. The problem was that many users started uploading a large number of copyrighted videos, which PornWild failed to moderate appropriately.
After all, who has the time to sit down and watch adult movies all day, right?
Naturally, this led to legal action from the owners of such content. For PornWild, that took the form of lawsuits by Fornix Holdings and CP Productions. The adult film companies sued, alleging over 1,339 copyright violations.
Timeline of events
In mid-2022, Fornix Holdings and CP Productions originally went after another site for copyright violations. However, during this process, it found another website (PornWild) had begun to do the same.
In the run-up to 15 November 2022, the owner of Fornix and CP sent over 1,600 takedown notices to Pornwild. But of course, such sites typically ignore such demands.
By the 1,600th notice, Fornix and CP had enough, and court papers had been filed. Within days, the judge summoned not just defendants but several service providers, including Google, Easy DNS, Namecheap, and more.
It was overzealous, but most non-techies have no idea how the Internet works. Regardless, things moved fast, and by 19 November 2022, the judge had granted Fornix and CP their temporary restraining order request against PornWild.
What happened from then on, as they say, is history.
Lessons Learned
The case of PornWild’s demise is nothing new, but the speed at which things happened was pretty stunning. Most court cases get caught in the system for years. However, from filing to bringing a site down within days is something new.
The real lesson, though, is the reason that led us all to the case of PornWild. You see, adult content sites and piracy aren’t a new thing. Before its success today, that was the very model that PornHub (allegedly) followed.
But money makes things move, and it allowed PornHub to move away from piracy and clean up its act. Today, the parent company MindGeek is the proud owner of a legal smut empire. It has become the biggest champion of copyright adult content and sues at a pin drop.
Given enough time to grow, would others have followed this modus operandi and gone legal? I guess we’ll never know.
Alternatives to PornWild
Now that we’ve covered the depressing stuff, I’m sure there are many PornWild fans still lost in limbo. If you’re looking for more user-generated adult content, here are some sites you can try:
PornHub: The grandaddy of smut streaming. Once focused on amateur content, the site now hosts everything under the sun, including semi-professional and professional adult entertainer content. Tons of stuff is free but has a paid section and links to commercial sites.
xHamster: This site is like PornHub used to be in the past, a haven for short, user-generated adult content clips. However, unlike PornHub, it houses a lot of material that is ripped off from commercial adult films.
xVideos: Almost a twin of xHamster, albeit slightly more scrupulous about its content. This site seems to be in the middle of a metamorphosis toward what PornHub has achieved. One example is its premium commercial section called xVideos RED.
Chaturbate: This site is all about cam streaming and chat. You can interact with the entertainers (many amateurs) for free. However, like most ladies, they know not to give the goodies away for free, so you’ll have to tip in tokens.
UJiZZ: I love the name, and there are lots of freebies here, but the site is a little lame. However, this is where to go if you want to filter microscopically by category. They have so many categories of adult content that you’ll spend lots of time exploring.
Final Thoughts
Adult content sites opening and closing are a penny a pound. That’s especially true for sites that thrive on user-generated content. However, most of these sites are careful enough to police their content heavily – at least the survivors do.
Sites like PornWild are typically the Wild West of the digital smut community. They set up, try to make a quick buck, and ride that baby until it gets shot down in flames. For content consumers, it’s better to rely on a legit site like PornHub.
After all, what can’t you get there? (please don’t answer that).
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