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The item I find with this is once it's online... it's never going away. Not without some form of incredible draconian overarching system. What could even be done with situations like this. Short of insisting that any content provider (pornhub included) be liable for all content posted to their site in perpetuity. (Which seems like a really dangerous idea and a good way to force extreme censorship online.)

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It may not be possible to eradicate it completely, but it's absolutely feasible to dramatically reduce its availability until there's no practical difference.

Maybe a thousand people downloaded it and added it to personal collections/datahoards. The vast majority of that thousand would never consider uploading to a public site (possibly as a response to a request). Of the remainder, most probably wouldn't bother unless the video in question is an outstanding example of that particular kink (in the story sex with someone unconscious).

The first step is undoubtedly getting and keeping it off public sites. Once that's done, even the few places it may remain effectively disappear in a vast sea of other content.

They offer a service to paying customers, of removing content from all the affiliated sites.

So they have more capability than they suggest. Not perfect, but much better

They have the ability to encourage content removal. Not that they will be successful.

Pretty sure the parent corporation owns a disturbingly high percentage of the video sharing sites. At the very least they own Pornhub, Redtube, Youporn as well as a bunch of others (Wikipedia about Mindgeek).

That, if true, is even more disturbing to me. Imagine the blackmail potential of a corporation with that much data.

Maybe it is OK to ask money for such a service? I think in general that kind of service does exist. You can pay people or companies to try to remove as much as possible of your content from the internet.

If you can plausibly deny that it's you in the video, what does it matter?

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