Break.com

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NextPoint LLC

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NextPoint LLC8750 Wilshire Blvd Suite 225

Beverly Hills , CA 90211

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Do You Need A Break?

Break.com (formerly Big-boys.com) is a popular adult humor website founded in 1998 that features videos, flash games, and pictures among other material. Although much older, the website is considered a rival to YouTube.

The website's target audience is kids between the ages of 13 and 25 and is frequently viewed by children as young as 7. The website has also been refered to as a "cyber scavanger" due to copied material being submitted from other video hosting websites by users hoping to cash in if the content makes the homepage. 30-40% of files on this website are re-posts.

Content

Users are able to register with the site for a free account which allows them to upload content for private or public viewing. Users are paid if they submit original content that is featured on Break's main page.

The main focus of the site is on the videos, which consist of short clips of varying humorous merit. These often include home video footage of people being injured, usually as a result of their own recklessness or foolishness, on purpose or on accident, the site also includes television clips, viral and adult videos in its NSFW and EASTEREGG sections. The main non-adult content in many ways echoes that of the MTV series Jackass. Generally, any video has a chance at being featured so long as it is humorous or entertaining in some way.

Visitors are supposedly able to rank site material on a scale of 1 to 5, which is factored into an average score. In recent months many visitors to the site have questioned the validity of the ranking system. This being because clips have made the mainpage with very few visits and low ranking. Users can also comment on most of the individual entries.

In January 2006, Break.com introduced a new file hosting system for its users to share their files. Shared files can be promoted to the homepage to be featured. Users that host original files promoted to the homepage are paid as much as $25,00 for pictures and $2,000 USD for videos, thereby relinquishing all rights to their material under contract. [1].

Break.com has an Alexa rating hovering in the high 200s (as of February, 2007).[2]

The website is owned by TMFT Enterprises, LLC.

Pornography and adult content

Apart from the numerous sponsored adult content, Break.com is a target of spamming from camsites and others. It can take several hours for staff to remove this content, allowing children who access the site to see it. Comments left within the submitted material have called for a higher level of supervision on the part of Break.com staff, esspcially outside office hours and weekends when most of the material is submitted.

General consensus is that Break.com is not suitable for minors under the age of 18 and parental discretion is advised due to the nature of its content.