Owner of Pornhub admits to making over $864,000 from sex trafficking, agrees to pay $1.8m in damages

Published: 22 December 2023 at 12:16

The owner of Pornhub, Aylo Holdings, has admitted to making more than $864,000 from sex trafficking by posting non-consensual videos of women on its site. The Montreal-based firm has agreed to pay more than $1.8m to the US government and individual damages to the victims. Aylo was found to have hosted videos and accepted payments from GirlsDoPorn, a now-defunct adult film production company convicted of sex trafficking crimes. Prosecutors stated that Aylo was too slow and not thorough enough in removing the non-consensual videos, even after some of the women appealed directly to the company.

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