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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.

The former owner of GirlsDoPorn, Michael Pratt, pleaded guilty to federal sex trafficking charges in a federal court in San Diego on Thursday. Local news wire City News Service (CNS), via ABC 10, indicates the charges include sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.

The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is drawing attention to a recent report about parental filters.

The European Commission is scrutinizing a French national age verification law out of concern that it conflicts with the E.U.’s Digital Services Act (DSA), legal news service MLex.com reports. 

Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne of Québec reintroduced her national age verification law on Thursday with the intent of requiring all residents of Canada to verify their ages before viewing pornographic material on the internet.

Aylo Premium, a division of the parent company of Pornhub.com based in Montreal, Québec, was handed a legal victory Wednesday in an ongoing dispute over a video streaming patent registered by Dish Network, a satellite and streaming television service provider based in Englewood, Colorado.

A federal district judge dismissed a case Wednesday that involved two Florida strip clubs, an adult retailer and a 19-year-old performer challenging the state government’s ban on working in an adult entertainment venue for adults under the age of 21.

U.S. citizen Taylor Kirby Whitemore was arrested on March 25 by local law enforcement for violating Indonesia’s laws about producing and selling adult content while in the country.

Aylo, the parent company of adult tube website Pornhub.com, is set to remove all remaining content from the platform that is unverified by the end of June, legal news wire service MLex.com reports.

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), a controversial far-right anti-pornography lobbying group, sued the parent companies of several adult platforms in a federal district court in Kansas on behalf of a Jane Doe mother and her child in a set of lawsuits announced Monday.