MindGeek is a privately held Canadian company that primarily focuses on pornography.
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11 Facts About MindGeek
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MindGeek is headquartered in Luxembourg, and maintains additional offices in Bucharest, Dublin, London, Los Angeles, and Montreal.
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MindGeek was sued in California for hosting non-consensual pornography produced by GirlsDoPorn, which coerced women into appearing in their videos under false pretenses.
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In December 2014, MindGeek announced they had signed a deal to manage the online assets of Really Useful Ltd.
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In May 2015, MindGeek signed a distribution deal with Pulse Distribution, one of the largest distributors of adult entertainment, to distribute content from MindGeek's movie studios, including content from Brazzers and Digital Playground, and DVDs from Babes.
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MindGeek operates under a complex structure of multiple companies in countries such as the British Virgin Islands, Canada, Curacao, Cyprus, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mauritius, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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MindGeek said in a statement that their own figures showed that 0.
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Digital Economy Act 2017 introduced the relevant legislation, and in March 2018 MindGeek announced that its AgeID age-verification tool, which has been in use in Germany since 2015, would be made available in the UK in time for the proposed introduction of compulsory age-verification in April 2018.
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In December 2020, MindGeek was sued in California for hosting non-consensual pornography produced by GirlsDoPorn, which coerced women into appearing in their videos under false pretenses.
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MindGeek featured GirlsDoPorn as a Content Partner and a member of the Viewshare Program.
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The lawsuit alleges that MindGeek failed to remove GirlsDoPorn videos despite requests for removal by victims, as recently as December 2020.
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