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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".
(Score: 5, Interesting) by loonycyborg on Saturday July 04 2020, @10:25AM (1 child)
I can understand if she wants to change job due to relationships with co-workers/employers going sour but it doesn't entitle her to removal of past works. It's like if construction worker who decides to quit his job also would insist on all buildings he contributed to construction of to be demolished.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @01:46PM
No, it's really not. Any copies that are produced by the rightsholder are still legal, it's just these ones being distributed online via websites that she didn't sign up for that are being removed.
Anybody that really wants a copy can still get one as long as the videos remain in print, it's just these websites where you can no longer get them. One of the realities of porn is that over time videos and photos sets tend to be forgotten. There is so much porn now that just requiring that fans pay for the videos might be enough to allow her to move on with her life with limited risk of anybody she knows finding them. Unless it was a particularly notable video or she has a particularly passionate fanbase, it's probably not selling very much these days, especially if it's 6 years old. Porn moves on and likely anybody that was interested is probably just going to move on to the next video in the list.