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Re:Pornhub Blocks All of Utah from Its Site by 1over137 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @08:34AM (#35786448)
>Only US-based operations will go to the trouble of blocking Utah.

Apparently not, as Pornhub is Canadian.

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Re:Pornhub Blocks All of Utah from Its Site by toyg on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @09:17AM (#35786948)
I expect Canada is not beyond the reach of US copyright law, in practice.
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Re:Pornhub Blocks All of Utah from Its Site by arp242 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @09:20AM (#35786996)
On paper PornHub seems headquartered in Cyprus, and parent company MindGeek in Luxembourg. Tax reasons both probably. But it doesn't matter because MindGeek also owns Brazzers, Reality Kings, and a bunch of other porn studios, and they operate out of the US ("porn valley") a lot. Simply ignoring US law can get them in to a lot of trouble. Even a EU-based outfit is relatively safe in comparison, never mind something located in Russia or whatnot.
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