YouTube Hit By “Porn Day” Attackers

For a while yesterday, the Internet’s porn was liberated from seedy, spyware-laden corners of the Web, landing on YouTube in an attack by members of 4chan and eBaum’s World. The so-called “Porn Day” entailed massive quantities of adult content being uploaded to the video sharing site, to the point that casual users were exposed. Some clips even appeared to be legitimate content, such as news, but switched to porn 20 or 30 seconds into the video. YouTube has eliminated the videos from the site, but it may take a few days to remove all the search results and thumbnail images. Point taken: Grouped together, people can manipulate user-powered Web sites in strange ways. I suppose I’m amused. Moving on. [via Ars Technica]