According to yahoo news:

“More than 30 women sued Pornhub on Thursday, accusing it of violating federal sex trafficking laws, distributing child pornography, racketeering and other crimes.

The suit alleges that Pornhub’s parent company, MindGeek — and its constellation of porn brands — is a criminal enterprise that purchases, launders and uploads illegal content often obtained through human trafficking and sexual assault.”

Over the years I’ve heard my fair share of rumors about pornhub laundering money and illegal content. I’ve never been a fan of the user generated porn content. Especially when it’s policed by a community standards business model. Personally, I would have preferred to see a profit sharing approach with producers and production companies. When you deal directly with civilians, you’re going to be bullshit screwed over sooner or later. It appears now that controversy and law suits are fast becoming a business expense for Mindgeek.

In an era dominated by social justice warriors, it’s not a good time for porn professionals to fall under public scrutiny. All it’s going to take is one freaky colored hair Megan Rapinoe type to step forward with allegations that underage incest videos of her were uploaded to the Internet and all hell will break lose. Cable news will go bat shit crazy over the story, congress will call for a moment of silence and some razor company will manufacture a DIY cut off your dick kit to combat evil toxic masculinity. And you have to be a self-deluding fool if you don’t believe that those angry social justice warriors would purposely create and upload underage incest videos just to trap Pornhub.

I’m being a realistic bastard when I say that the social justice obsessed would go as far as to film themselves having sex with their own 8 year old child. Modern society not only is in the middle of a pandemic of mentally unstable crazies, but it’s also under assault by numerous power hungry self-righteous militant groups. Add to this a very dumbed down public, where anyone with common sense finds him/herself in the minority. Country singer Kenny Rogers sang, “know when to hold them… know when to fold them… know when to walk away and know when to run.” Well, if life is a poker game, these days anyone with a good brain is playing their cards very close to their chest.

Then again, I’m just one independent focused on how I’m going to navigate my stretch of the Mississippi river. Mindgeek has a lot more money, intellectual talent and contacts than I do. So maybe this lawsuit and all the previous problems are nothing more than the proverbial fly in the ointment to them. What I can say is that I’m no stranger to porn controversies and so I wish them the best.

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So who is Bernd Bergmair?

According to Tortoise Media, he’s the secret majority owner of Mindgeek (aka. Pornhub). Now in case you didn’t already suspect, Pornhub gets a mountain of traffic, (92 million daily visitors were counted in 2018). I’ve no doubt that Covid lockdowns have contributed to raising that number. Increased traffic includes increased uploaders, which brings its own set of problems. Problems with mentally sick pedophiles uploading kiddie porn… Jackasses uploading videos of people that never knew they were being filmed… And assholes that just want to get revenge on someone. Personally, I’ve got an old school mentality, so it should be no surprise that I like the idea of removing the anonymity of uploaders and then sending men with baseball bats to their homes. (Hey, my family is Sicilian, this train of thought is genetic.)

I have always been in favor of treating sites like Pornhub the same way we treat distributors of adult erotica. That means EVERYONE who uploads must adhere to 18 USC 2257. So the general public doesn’t get to upload to the platform without submitting copies of the performer’s IDs and releases. As a producer, I assure everyone that I want the scumbags shut down too and that it’s in everyone’s best interest, including Mindgeek’s to work together.

Quid-pro-quo business approaches ensure long-term profitability and growth.

When we fail to keep the human garbage out of our industry, another industry will be happy to do it for us and be labeled as heroes for it. All those anti-porn activists and political lobby groups that will put enormous public pressure on career politicians, who will be very happy to win public favor by kicking the adult industry in the head. No one is ever going to win an election by promising to make porn production easier, but a promise to shut one of us down, will easily win 50k more votes from both feminists and Christian groups. I can just imagine the chaos that will happen the moment some social justice warrior successfully claims that porn contributes to rape culture and/or toxic masculinity.

Whoever Bernd Bergmair is, it might be a good time for him to step up and change the way Pornhub functions. My search results say Pornhub earns close to half a billion dollars a year, so it’s had a great run. The world is forever changing and as much as I dream of making a 1970s porn movie, I’m now experimenting with my smartphone and sending the majority of what I produce to private collectors. The situation is… What the situation is.. So who Bernd Bergmair is doesn’t really matter but maybe now it’s Mindgeek’s turn to adapt or die.

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