Seven days ago, a $120 million (€104 million) settlement filed with the US District Court for the Central District of California brought an end to a five-year legal fight by Pornhub’s alleged victims. The settlement leaves a question mark over parallel proceedings in Ireland, where the company books hundreds of millions in revenues and where the victims took a “complementary” High Court case. Five Pornhub-related companies are based in Dublin and form part of the international corporate web supporting the porn giant and other pornographic websites – some of the most viewed in the world. The story starts with two…

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