Pornhub sued by deaf man over lack of captions

[Gordon McLeod]

Just look at the Megaupload / Kim DotCom case how they do it. This was a company officially headquartered in Hong Kong, while the founder itself lived in New Zealand.

Yes but those partys were signatory to the international copyright agreement so the local government was obligated to enforce

[Frank Angel]

I think when you are talking about copyright infringement, it's fairly straightforward -- either the government in the country in which a company is operating is either a signatory of the international copyright laws or they are not. If they are, they are going to comply and the violating company is going to have a hard time. Some countries will be more aggressive in enforcement than others, but pretty much all will at least put up the appearance of taking action against copyright infringement, which means the offending company is more or less going to have to deal with the legal issues therein. Porn, on the other hand has no such international treaties, except possibly when it comes to sex trafficking, and even that would be more in the way of local law enforcements working together rather than a major international treaty that most countries are party to. But when it comes to our anti-pornography mories, they are just that, cultural perceptions and rarely will they align closely enough between countries that one will exhibit the same moral outrage as the other.

While the FBI has closed down a number of "dating" sites that were thinly disguised as vehicles for prostitution, they proliferate and thrive outside the US. Even Craigslist was forced to close its "Personals" section, giving in to the US puritanical prudery. Here in the US our moral outrage seems to always be confined strictly to what happens between the navel and the kneecaps; everything else is totally beyond the reach of ethics or decency.