Eroticr

Yup, we were surprised, too. But a brand new service, currently in private beta testing, aims to extract the “soft erotic” videos and images from the popular social media sites YouTube and Flickr. Members of eroticr (behind a holding page) can import photos from Flickr, videos from YouTube or upload images from their own computers.

Obviously eroticr is being very careful here with regard to the DMCA and child porn: there are warnings about uploading copyrighted content, making sure that those in the images/videos are adults, and only adding “erotica” to the site, rather than “pornography”. I’m not really sure where they’ll draw the line, and I wonder whether moderators could be held responsible if the onus is on the site, rather than the users, to keep things semi-clean (they do have a “report content” button”, suggesting that they want to hand this responsibility to the users). There’s certainly lots of partial nudity on the site, mainly due to Flickr’s relaxed policies.