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by 1over137 1144 days ago
>Only US-based operations will go to the trouble of blocking Utah.

Apparently not, as Pornhub is Canadian.

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On paper PornHub seems headquartered in Cyprus, and parent company MindGeek in Luxembourg. Tax reasons both probably. But it doesn't matter because MindGeek also owns Brazzers, Reality Kings, and a bunch of other porn studios, and they operate out of the US ("porn valley") a lot. Simply ignoring US law can get them in to a lot of trouble. Even a EU-based outfit is relatively safe in comparison, never mind something located in Russia or whatnot.
I expect Canada is not beyond the reach of US copyright law, in practice.