Are Video Sharing Sites Good or Bad for the Adult Industry?

[Cyndalie]

There's alot of hoopla surrounding sites like Megarotic that blatently offer high quality 20+ minute videos of porn movies - content that is beyond promotional clips and appears to be either stolen or illegally distribued content (unlicensed). There is no reference to point of source, 2257, and many don't even have overlays with urls or anything.

Sites like Xtube and Wanktube differ in that they allow webmasters to upload videos and provide a link to the site of source, 2257 link, and the clips are for promotion.

Differentiating between the types of video sites that cater to the promotional aspects of video sharing and act as webmaster tools versus those types of sites that encourage the theft and sharing of stolen/lifted content (P2P networks included) and even have the audicity to charge users for a premium membership fee to access both stolen or legally uploaded content... well what are your thoughts?

Would you upload your clips to a site that contains stolen content? Illegal content?

And an even bigger question, where does DRM stand in all this. Haven't we had the optoin of protecting our video content for years, or has DRM pissed off the "collecting consumer" too much that encoding your members video content can actually deterr retention and signups?