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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday July 04 2020, @08:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the poor-decisions dept.

Ex-porn star's fans help remove X-rated videos:

She is one of the most searched for star's on Pornhub, but Mia Khalifa's 11 X-rated films could soon disappear for good.

The former porn star has tried and failed to have her videos removed from Pornhub and BangBros, describing her three-month stint in 2014 as a decision that will "haunt her for the rest of her life".

But now her fans have stepped in, creating a Change.org petition that has already seen nearly 2 million signatures demanding the adult sites remove the content.

"Mia and her team have provided countless financial offers to the current owners of her domain name and pornographic videos to no avail," the Justice for Mia petition read.

"Big corporations are not giving Mia Khalifa a fair chance to demand her content in court due to financial advantage.

"We are demanding her domain names be returned, her videos be removed and fairly discussed in court without putting Mia Khalifa into deep financial ruin. Mia has stated her regret for her decisions in the porn industry multiple times."

It comes after the 27-year-old begged girls to not go into the industry, slamming it as "toxic".


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by bradley13 on Saturday July 04 2020, @09:15AM (9 children)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Saturday July 04 2020, @09:15AM (#1016051) Homepage Journal

    You're right about the Streisand effect. But...what if they are being really clever? What better way to make her videos worth a lot more money, get a lot more views? If that was the goal, they have succeeded magnificently.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @10:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @10:19AM (#1016059)

    I was thinking this whole thing could be something like that.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @04:37PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @04:37PM (#1016165)

    What better way to make her videos worth a lot more money, get a lot more views? If that was the goal, they have succeeded magnificently.

    Who *pays* for porn these days?

    Why would *anyone* do so when there's places like these (all NSFW, you have been warned):
    https://pornhub.com [pornhub.com]
    https://xvideos.com [xvideos.com]
    https://motherless.com [motherless.com]
    and dozens of others.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @10:34PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @10:34PM (#1016278)

      A lot of the bigger porn websites do revenue shares with the distributors and actresses. The alternative is major porn companies doing take downs of their videos and driving your customers to the major sites that still have them.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @11:08PM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @11:08PM (#1016291)

        A lot of the bigger porn websites do revenue shares with the distributors and actresses. The alternative is major porn companies doing take downs of their videos and driving your customers to the major sites that still have them.

        So...Does that mean *you* pay for porn?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @04:06AM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @04:06AM (#1016379)

          Yes, you buy it in exchange for your browser data and eyeballs. The websites then exchange those to advertisers, tracking companies, and anyone else with a big enough wallet.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @12:46AM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @12:46AM (#1016752)

            Ublock Origin, Noscript, Ghostery and others handle that pretty well AFAICT.

            So no. I *don't* pay for porn.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @05:46AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @05:46AM (#1016856)

              If you think those somehow make you untrackable or somehow immune, you've got another thing coming. Pornhub and anyone else under a first-party name can see what you are doing just fine and your browser gives them plenty of information for them to track and sell.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @04:27PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @04:27PM (#1017123)

                somehow immune

                Immune from what?

                Pornhub and anyone else under a first-party name can see what you are doing just fine and your browser gives them plenty of information for them to track and sell.

                If I never see an ad, what difference does it make if my browser can be fingerprinted?

                As an aside, the browser I use for viewing porn (and never on Pornhub, BTW), has a uniqueness of 1 in 278,527. Given that ~40,000,000 people regularly visit porn sites, my browser fingerprint doesn't uniquely identify *me*.

                So no. I don't pay for porn. Also, you're talking out of your ass and it smells that way too. As such, perhaps you'd like to see some of this [motherless.com] [very NSFW]

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @01:38AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @01:38AM (#1016343)

      > Who *pays* for porn these days?

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