RedTube
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| Home of free porn videos | |
| Video portal | |
| languages | German, 7 more |
| operator | Mindgeek |
| Registration | optional |
| On-line | 2007 |
| www.redtube.com | |
RedTube is a video portal that offers pornographic content. In the ranking of Alexa.com , the website was at times among the 100 most visited websites worldwide. Accessing the video material and creating an account are free. With an account, films can be uploaded that are activated after an editorial check. The owner is the Luxembourg IT company Mindgeek .
Internet bans against RedTube
The site was blocked in Sri Lanka in 2009 as one of twelve websites that , according to a court ruling, showed pornography involving Sri Lankan women and / or children .
In September 2013, RedTube was blocked by Roskomnadzor , the Russian state service for the supervision of communications, information technology and mass media.
Wave of warnings in Germany in 2013
The portal came into the focus of public interest in December 2013 after the Regensburg law firm Urmann + Collegen had warned tens of thousands of users on behalf of The Archive AG for alleged copyright infringements on six porn films . In addition to a declaration of cease and desist to be signed by the person being warned, the warnings contained a cost note of € 250.00. This happened without prior consultation with RedTube. In December 2015, the district court of Regensburg ruled that the warnings were “deliberately unlawful acts”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on Redtube.com. alexa.com, accessed January 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Sri Lanka court blocks porn websites. AFP , July 24, 2009, accessed December 22, 2013 .
- ^ Andrei Soldatov: What did Russia block this autumn? indexoncensorship.org, November 22, 2013, accessed December 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Redtube warning was a deliberate unauthorized act. Law firm Weiß & Partner, December 15, 2015, accessed October 30, 2016 .