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Famous porn star August Ames has died aged 23

Apparently.

No, I haven't heard of her either!

The UK porn law changes you need to know about

"From April, all UK porn sites must offer ID checks before people can enter the site, the government has announced.

In order to do this, sites will ask for credit card details and other proof of ID, some suggestions include a passport check, however this has not been confirmed.

If websites don't comply they could face fines of up to £250,000, by the British Board of Film Classification, as well as being blocked by internet service providers."

Why would anyone "need" to know about this? How many of their readers actually RUN a porn site as opposed to look at them all day? Who in their right mind would PAY to view a UK-based porn site when there are thousands available free elsewhere in the world?

dutchman said:

The UK porn law changes you need to know about

Why would anyone "need" to know about this? How many of their readers actually RUN a porn site as opposed to look at them all day? Who in their right mind would PAY to view a UK-based porn site when there are thousands available free elsewhere in the world?

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Um, PornHub is kinda popular.

And all these sites are free.

Seems you need to read the article

(Edit: forgot what thread I’m in)

You’ve had a mare there.

shmmeee said:

Um, PornHub is kinda popular.

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Pornhub is based in Canada, the article is about UK-based websites.

shmmeee said:

Seems you need to read the article

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No, it seems you do!

EDIT: I've now added a quote from the article to my original post to avoid any confusion.

dutchman said:

Pornhub is based in Canada, the article is about UK-based websites.



No, it seems you do!

EDIT: I've now added a quote from the article to my original post to avoid any confusion.

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No the deal is with MindGeek, who own Pornhub ( Pornhub owner may become the UK's gatekeeper of online porn ) to run the ID scheme and it’s sites accessible in the U.K. that host adult content. There’s nothing about paid only in the Digital Economy Act.

Seriously. You’ve got it wrong. And you just doubled down on the wrongness.

shmmeee said:

No the deal is with MindGeek, who own Pornhub ( Pornhub owner may become the UK's gatekeeper of online porn ) to run the ID scheme and it’s sites accessible in the U.K. that host adult content. There’s nothing about paid only in the Digital Economy Act.

Seriously. You’ve got it wrong. And you just doubled down on the wrongness.

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My point was, you don't "need" to know any of this unless you are the owner of a UK-based porn website or habitual viewer of such sites and also that there are inumerable non-UK porn sites for which a credit card ID check is not needed. Please tell me how needing a credit card to access a site is "not paying"?

dutchman said:

My point was, you don't "need" to know any of this unless you are the owner of a UK-based porn website or habitual viewer of such sites and also that there are inumerable non-UK porn sites for which a credit card ID check is not needed. Please tell me how needing a credit card to access a site is "not paying"?

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Again, you are wrong.

New porn laws will mean Pornhub asks for your name and address | Metro News

The credit card is used to verify you are over 18, not to pay. The Digital Economy Act will ban U.K. access to any porn site that does not perform age checks (barring certain social media sites like subreddits). Not just paid ones. Not just ones hosted in the U.K.

From May this year, if you want to access PornHub (or any porn site) you will need to have your ID verified using your credit card or another system. Even though PornHub is hosted internationally. Even though it’s free. Even though you don’t own it and are just using it. Any site that does not comply will be added to the government block list just like pirate bay and terrorist sites are now. ISPs are required to abide by said block list.

That is the new U.K. law passed last year.

Yes you can circumvent it by using a VPN, but that’s not the point. The point is that this is a massive change to U.K. law that any wanker needs to know about.

And again, you wouldn’t keep making yourself look silly if you’d read the article you claimed no one ever needed to read.

shmmeee said:

Again, you are wrong.

New porn laws will mean Pornhub asks for your name and address | Metro News

The credit card is used to verify you are over 18, not to pay.

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That remains to be seen.

shmmeee said:

The Digital Economy Act will ban U.K. access to any porn site that does not perform age checks (barring certain social media sites like subreddits). Not just paid ones. Not just ones hosted in the U.K.

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The Telegraph article only mentions UK sites, take it up with them.[/QUOTE]

shmmeee said:

Any site that does not comply will be added to the government block list just like pirate bay and terrorist sites are now.

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I've never had any problem accessing The Pirate Bay myself (although I prefer RAGBG) and I don't use a VPN. The same will be true for any porn site.

shmmeee said:

And again, you wouldn’t keep making yourself look silly if you’d read the article you claimed no one ever needed to read.

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And again why do I "need" to read it? Why does anybody "need" to read it, what will happen to them if they dont?

If this is brought in surely it just pushes people to smaller dodgy sites full of viruses and malware. The big sites will comply and people who don't want to hand over all their details will go elsewhere.

Sites will be going out of business left right and centre if its enforced. The cost every time someone has to be authenticated is higher than the ad revenue the sites generate.

chiefdave said:

If this is brought in surely it just pushes people to smaller dodgy sites full of viruses and malware.

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Which already happened with torrent sites yet had no effect on the overall availability of pirate material and the same will be true for porn.

chiefdave said:

Sites will be going out of business left right and centre if its enforced.

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And why should anyone care? Sites are already going out of business due to the deluge of totally-free (and mostly-pirated) streaming videos. There's more free porn available for download than anyone could watch in several lifetimes. And with the increase in availability has come an increase in the amount of perverted, creepy porn.

See Mirror group are taking over Express and other titles.
Did amuse me this morning seeing the CEO lauding their regional content and giving assurances around their quality and future security.

wingy said:

See Mirror group are taking over Express and other titles.
Did amuse me this morning seeing the CEO lauding their regional content and giving assurances around their quality and future security.

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I assume they're buying it for their city-centre property portfolio which they will then flog off to developers like they did with the Telegraph.