Pornhub announced several major changes on Tuesday to its website, including banning video downloads and only accepting video uploads from verified accounts, a few days after The New York Times reported the site was “infested” with child rape videos.
The popular porn site, which pulls in 3.5 billion visitors each month, said the changes will help make sure videos are only uploaded from consenting parties.
“Effective immediately, only content partners and people within the Model Program will be able to upload content to Pornhub,” the site said in a statement. “In the new year, we will implement a verification process so that any user can upload content upon successful completion of identification protocol.”