Porn website XHamster is ordered to take away revenge porn by Dutch courtroom
- The adult site is one of the largest online porn providers in the world
- Court case was brought by Dutch campaign group, Offlimits
Porn site xHamster has been ordered to remove all footage featuring Dutch people who have not given their permission for their explicit images to be used by a court in Amsterdam.
The adult site, which is owned by Cyprus-based Hammy Media, is one of the largest online providers in the world, with 10 million members.
Dutch campaign group Offlimits brought the case after it received reports that some films had been uploaded to the site as an act of revenge, while others had been stolen.
Revenge porn is the distribution of sexually explicit images or videos of individuals without their consent. The material may have been made without the knowledge or consent of the individual.
A group of appeal court judges in the Dutch capital city said the company must remove all unlicensed footage within three days or face a €10,000 for each illegal video, according to Dutch News.
Porn site xHamster has been ordered to remove all footage featuring Dutch people who have been victims of revenge porn by an Amsterdam court
Revenge porn (srock image) is when explicit images of someone are distributed without their consent. The porn site will be fined if it fails to remove revenge porn content
The fines are meant to go up longer it takes the company to shut down the videos to a maximum of €500,000.
Offlimits said that the ruling was a victory for the rights and privacy of victims whose nude images have been published without their consent.
‘This ruling underlines the fact that this sort of footage should not be on the internet unless explicit permission has been given,’ said Offlimits director Robert Hoving.
‘Porn sites should take more responsibility for ensuring everything is in order, for everyone who is pictured,’ he added.
The recent court order comes just a month after it was announced that new porn laws were coming to Australia to crackdown on deepfake pornography and misogynist content to help combat rising violence against women.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that $925m will be allocated over five years to help women escaping violent relationships and to combat ‘toxic male extremist views about women online’ following crisis talks with state leaders on Wednesday.
This includes new legislation to make illegal the creation and non-consensual distribution of deepfake porn, as well as the sharing of sexually-explicit material using artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology.
Deepfake porn is when a picture or video has been ‘convincingly altered and manipulated’ to show someone doing or saying something that never took place.
