Wednesday, July 12, 2006

AsiaMedia :: WORLD: Porn from video-sharing

"Popular video-sharing websites that are supposedly safe for children are themselves the source of nudity and violence, say parents.
Such websites are meant to protect children in gated online communities, where all participants are screened, but parents say that scenes that make them blush are appearing.
The user-generated videos have become a phenomenal form of entertainment and appear on the websites of MySpace, YouTube, Yahoo, Google and, soon, also Microsoft Corp's MSN.
YouTube, the leading video site that helped catapult the genre with a public launch last December, attracted more than 20 million visitors in May this year. The company says it averages 50,000 new video uploads per day.
It all began several years ago with Napster, whose users shared online files, especially on music. An explosion of amateur online music-sharing took place -- and the trend spread to video-sharing.
The latest concern among parents is in contrast to the usual worry about pornography sites and paedophiles in chatrooms."

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