This sad episode has been brewing for some time. This blog has repeatedly attracted attention to the inherent risks to the kind of product, some clearly very problematic to tolerate within the bounderies of the Luxembourg jurisdiction, without intervention on the part of the Justice Department. It is true that this business is quite lucrative, and helps the government pay some bills. Not to mention the well to do family fathers and mothers who earn a golden nose by having Mindgeek as a client. CBS reported.
An excerpt of the complaint filed in the US:
45. Defendant MindGeek S.a.r.l. is a foreign entity organized and existing under the laws of Luxembourg. MindGeek S.A.R.L. conducts business in the United States, including in this District. MindGeek S.a.r.l., formerly known as Manwin owns and operates over 100 pornographic websites, production companies, and brands including Pornhub, RedTube, Tube8, YouPorn, PornIQ, gaytube, Thumbzilla, Peeperz, PornMD, Xtube, Brazzers, Babes.com, Reality Kings, Digital Playground, Twistys, Men.com, Mofos, MyDirtyHobby, SexTube, and Webcams. MindGeek also manages websites including Wicked Pictures, lesbea.com, and Playboy. MindGeek S.a.r.l. owns and/or controls the majority of the pornography on the Internet, much of which it distributes for free, to any person with a web connection, regardless of age. Although incorporated in Luxembourg, MindGeek S.a.r.l. operates out of Montreal, Canada, and has satellite offices in, among other places, Los Angeles, California.
This will be resolved at a cost of hundreds of millions of USD.
The complete complaint filed by the US law firm Brown Rudnick is here.
