From alternet:
With sites like YouPorn, the amateur porn phenomenon is growing, often fueled by "private" sex tapes. While some are hailing the democratization of the porn industry, others are concerned about privacy violations.
She’s naked and posing suggestively, but otherwise she doesn’t resemble the average Playboy model. Yet this "ex-girlfriend" has been viewed by 138,629 people on YouPorn, the new, German-based Internet aggregator of amateur-generated porn.
She’s not the only one to have a former lover post her most intimate moments for the world to google. There are over 250 ex-girlfriends currently featured among the tens of thousands of sex videos on YouPorn.
About 15 per cent of women have knowingly made sex videos, according to a recent poll in Cosmopolitan magazine. If true, that’s how many are at risk of having an ex post x-rated files of them on a porn-sharing site.
Unlike Paris Hilton, the average YouPorn star probably won’t become famous, except unwittingly to his or her next potential boss or partner. And it’s likely he or she will suffer a loss of privacy that could hurt her reputation, relationship and career.
As sites like YouPorn and PornoTube that mesh community aspects of social networking with completely free-of-charge pornography rise in popularity, so too do the associated copyright and privacy infringements… (continued)