It's not that simple. MG owns pornhub and allowed all kinds of content of revenge porn, rape, sex abuse etc to be upoaded and never removed the harmful material. It wasn't because of Sean's papers it was because MG didn't care about policing PH.

My point was MG's own sites either didn't keep adequate records or didn't know what content it could publish, and that credit card cos. stopped processing payments to their sites. Then MG made a purge of the SC catalog to make a show of compliance, announced it was temporary, but didn't do any review or work because it was cheaper to not and their business model is to churn out crap quickly.
 
BS. It was Mindgeek's record-keeping failures (utter sloppiness) with pornhub that caused tons of problems, and it was after that, when credit card banks refused to process payments for subcriptions to MG sites, that they "temporarily” purged older stuff from the SC site.

When a company (MindGeek) has a deal negotiated to buy another company (SC), it's given access to all records of the company being bought. If there was a problem with SC's records, they should have found it during their "due diligence”. More likely, the SC archive purge was a stunt/shortcut to appease the credit card cos., and MG didn't want to invest time or money into doing anything to restore older scenes believing that its formula of pushing out poorer quality stuff at a rapid pace would drive more subscriptions.

His terrible record keeping has created a liability nightmare for them and forced them to flush half their catalog down the toilet. Surely there'd be some litigation as a remedy to this. Unless, perhaps this issue was disclosed at the time of the sale, but never made public. That's actually kind of plausible.
Actually -- you're both wrong.

One needs to look no further than those pop-up videos during the beginning of the pandemic that were trotted out as "new updates". The answer lies there. In case anyone isn't familiar with these, these were old updates with pop-up tidbits of information inserted into the scenes (reminiscent of Vh1's Pop-up videos during the mid 90's).

During late 2020, the purge happened. And some or all of the original videos of these scenes were removed, while the pop-up videos remained. So the theory that the recordkeeping isn't there doesn't really make sense. In each case, IT'S THE SAME SCENE! So if they don't have proof of the models age for the original scene, they don't have it for the pop-up video and almost certainly would have removed both, not kept one and deleted the other.

My best guess is that MG kept the pop-up videos because it was "their work". The original scenes weren't and so they removed them. We're pretty much rapidly reaching the point where all traces of the original SC have been removed and the Men-ification of SC has completely taken over, if we're not there already.
 
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It's not that simple. MG owns pornhub and allowed all kinds of content of revenge porn, rape, sex abuse etc to be upoaded and never removed the harmful material. It wasn't because of Sean's papers it was because MG didn't care about policing PH.
Yup.
To be fair, they weren't as horrible as the NY Times article made them out to be but they DID blow off valid complaints so their hands aren't clean by any means in this whole mess.
As you said, there were likely issues with SC that MG didn't care about but when the shit hit the fan, it gave them a reason to purge all of the old scenes while keeping theirs.
 
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Actually -- you're both wrong.

One needs to look no further than those pop-up videos during the beginning of the pandemic that were trotted out as "new updates". The answer lies there. In case anyone isn't familiar with these, these were old updates with pop-up tidbits of information inserted into the scenes (reminiscent of Vh1's Pop-up videos during the mid 90's).

During late 2020, the purge happened. And some or all of the original videos of these scenes were removed, while the pop-up videos remained. So the theory that the recordkeeping isn't there doesn't really make sense. In each case, IT'S THE SAME SCENE! So if they don't have proof of the models age for the original scene, they don't have it for the pop-up video and almost certainly would have removed both, not kept one and deleted the other.

My best guess is that MG kept the pop-up videos because it was "their work". The original scenes weren't and so they removed them. We're pretty much rapidly reaching the point where all traces of the original SC have been removed and the Men-ification of SC has completely taken over, if we're not there already.
I don’t understand why half of a models catalog can stay up.
 
All. Movies. Are. On. Torrent. Sites. IYKYK.
I used to be soooo good at this kind of thing, but now I’m old and rusty. My torrent sites don’t bring up gay videos, though. Do you mind sharing where you search for such videos? I’d really appreciate it!
 
Gay torrent sites.
Yeah, I uhhh…I mean, I get that. I feel like my question was fairly clear in asking for more clarity than that, but I get the sense you were taking the chance to be snarky. Thanks for taking the time to respond, though!
 
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Yeah, I uhhh…I mean, I get that. I feel like my question was fairly clear in asking for more clarity than that, but I get the sense you were taking the chance to be snarky. Thanks for taking the time to respond, though!
I wasn't being snarky. All you need to do is do a google search for gay torrent sites. There are several, pick one. Some you need an invite to, some have open registration.
 
I wasn't being snarky. All you need to do is do a google search for gay torrent sites. There are several, pick one. Some you need an invite to, some have open registration.

Torrents need seeders to work and since these videos are 15 YEARS OLD no one is seeding these videos anymore, you can find the links, you can find hundreds of links but if no one is seeding the videos then you CAN'T download them!