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Strangulation and choking depictions in consensually produced pornography are set to be outlawed in the United Kingdom’s digital space. An announcement made by His Majesty’s Ministry of Justice last week indicates that such pornography will see prohibition via amendments to the sweeping Crime and Policing Bill.

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Law firms are filing federal class action lawsuits against several adult entertainment platforms alleging user data privacy rights violations, AVN has learned after an investigation. The Srourian Law Firm PC, based in Los Angeles, and Siri & Glimstad LLP, based in New York with offices in Los Angeles, have filed separate lawsuits against major platforms alleging violations of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). Those being sued are the parent firms of Pornhub, Kink, Bellesa, and Redgifs. 

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France’s digital regulator, Arcom, might consider forcing X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to verify the age of its users. This is due to X confirming in their acceptable use policies that adult entertainment content, nudity, and sexually explicit material are allowed to be hosted on the platform.

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Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub.com, beat Dish Network in a European patent court on Friday, Law360.com reports. The dispute was brought by Dish, a satellite and internet television provider based in Englewood, Colorado, which accuses Aylo of infringing upon its intellectual property related to rate-adaptive streaming.

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