Porn 2.0
{{short description|Pornographic websites featuring user-generated content}}
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Porn 2.0 is a term derived from "Web 2.0" that describes pornographic websites featuring amateur content and interactive social networking features, such as user-generated categorization, webcam hosting, blogs, and comment sections.{{cite book|pages=417–426|doi=10.1145/2504730.2504739|first1=Gareth|last1=Tyson|first2=Yehia|last2=Elkhatib|first3=Nishanth|last3=Sastry|first4=Steve|last4=Uhlig|title=Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference|chapter=Demystifying porn 2.0: A look into a major adult video streaming website|date=2013|isbn=9781450319539|s2cid=941163|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|journal=ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications|volume=12|issue=2|date=March 2016|pages=1–25|doi=10.1145/2854003|title=Measurements and Analysis of a Major Adult Video Portal|first1=Gareth|last1=Tyson|first2=Yehia|last2=Elkhatib|first3=Nishanth|last3=Sastry|first4=Steve|last4=Uhlig|s2cid=11091235|url=https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/77765/1/ToMM_YP.pdf }}{{cite book|first1=Yo-Der|last1=Song|first2=Mingwei|last2=Gong|first3=Aniket|last3=Mahanti|title=Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining|chapter=Measurement and analysis of an adult video streaming service|doi=10.1145/3341161.3342940|date=27-30 August 2019|pages=489–492|isbn=9781450368681|s2cid=210715248}} This is in contrast to the static content offered by "Web 1.0" pornographic websites. Porn 2.0 websites often have features similar to mainstream Web 2.0 services, including video communities (Meta café, Vimeo, and YouTube), social sites (Tumblr and Twitter), general blogging platforms (Blogger, Daily Booth, and Lookbook.nu) and photo hosting services (Flickr, Photobucket, and Picasa).
Monetization
Unlike Web 2.0 ventures such as Meta Platforms, Myspace, or YouTube, Porn 2.0 was initially unable to find a business strategy that was profitable. Hosting large amount of amateur content resulted in high server costs, there was little or no model income, and services were initially free of charge to users, making advertising income the only source of revenue.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}} By the late 2010s, content subscription service websites such as OnlyFans, were allowing adult-content creators to directly monetize their content.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/onlyfans-sex-workers-porn-creators-999881/|title=Sex Workers Built OnlyFans. Now They Say They're Getting Kicked Off|first1=E. J.|last1=Dickson|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=18 May 2020|archive-date=23 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423103841/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/onlyfans-sex-workers-porn-creators-999881/|url-status=live}}
Controversies
=Copyright issues=
One of the central issues of Porn 2.0 is copyright infringement.{{cite web|url=https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/07/06/Porn2-0/|first=Sunny|last=Freeman|title=Mediacheck: Porn 2.0, and Its Victims|website=The Tyee|date=6 July 2007|access-date=21 December 2010}} Porn 2.0 websites have been criticized as potentially harmful to the income streams of the traditional pornography industry such as DVD sales and website subscriptions.{{cite web|url=http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/10/15/YouPorn-Vivid-Entertainment-Profile|title=Obscene Losses|first=Claire|last=Hoffman|publisher=Portfolio.com|date=15 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503115653/http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/10/15/YouPorn-Vivid-Entertainment-Profile|archive-date=3 May 2012}}
=Privacy=
{{Main|Revenge porn}}
The distribution of sexually explicit images or videos of individuals without their consent is called revenge porn. The practice began in pornographic magazines in the late 20th century. The uploading of such images to the Internet to humiliate and intimidate people has become a significant societal issue in the 21st century. Uploading material without a model's consent is usually prohibited by a website's terms of use, although some sites such as Voyeur Web allow non-consensual photos and move offices frequently to avoid the legal problems this might otherwise entail.{{cite web|last=Cone|first=Edward|url=https://www.wired.com/2002/02/sex/|title=The Naked Truth|publisher=Wired Magazine|date=1 February 2002|access-date=21 June 2021}} Photos and videos of non-consenting models are often obtained through the use of hidden cameras and the sexualization of their nudity. A woman taking a shower at a gym, for example, may be filmed without her knowledge and have the video distributed as pornography.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Ingraham|first=Natalie|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118896877.wbiehs366|title=Genres of Pornography|chapter=Pornography, genres of|encyclopedia=The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality|isbn=978-1118896877|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|date=10 April 2015|pages=861–1042|doi=10.1002/9781118896877.wbiehs366|access-date=21 June 2021|url-access=subscription}}{{cite conference|last=Jones|first=Matthew|url=http://www.mattsmediaresearch.com/MediatedExhibitionism.html|title=Mediated Exhibitionism: The Naked Body in Theory, Performance, and Virtual Space|conference=2009 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations|conference-url=https://pcaaca.org/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2009program.pdf|date=8 April 2009|access-date=21 June 2021}}
Porn 3.0
News media have suggested the possibility of a future Porn 3.0, based on the use of technologies such as 3D stereoscopy, multi-angle DVD,{{cite web|url=http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/porn-3-0-the-next-gen-of-sex-biz-tech-612328|title=Porn 3.0: the next gen of sex biz tech|first=Carrie|last=Marshall|date=30 June 2009|website=TechRadar}} neural impulse actuators, animation using AI technologies, and peripheral controller and devices.