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by "Ethical Capital" private equity firm.

| Private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners acquires P^rnhub owner MindGeek, which had $460M in 2018 revenue and sources say profit margins near 50% at times

>Ethical Capital Partners


>Solomon Friedman, a lawyer and co-founding partner of ECP, told the FT he believed the lawsuits as well as criticism of MindGeek stemmed from a misunderstanding of how the company is now safeguarding its content, which had been spurred in part by the secrecy surrounding the previous owners.

>“I want to engage regularly with stakeholders, including the media,” he said, adding that the new ownership wanted to exercise transparency.

>ECP would not disclose how much it had paid for MindGeek, nor where it had raised the funds that allowed the six buyout co-founders to acquire a company that claims to have more than 115mn daily visitors to p*rn sites such as YouP^rn and Br^zzers.

>Friedman said the management team of ECP, which includes lawyers and former cannabis investors, have “complete control of the acquisition and the assets”, adding that “no previous shareholders retain any ownership, right or control of the company in any way”.

>The firm said MindGeek’s remaining executives would continue running the company, but would not disclose who they are.

>“At this point we are not identifying the current executives, as there is an unfortunate stigma [attached to the industry],” Friedman said.

Discuss

>> No.54176705

>Ethical Capital
oxymoron.

>> No.54176718
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54176718

The masturbation industry isn't that interesting. I see no money here.

>> No.54176725

>>54176657
I don't really go to pornhub much anymore, I mostly fap to vintage erotica at the moment, burlesque dancers from 50's and 60's.

>> No.54176749

>>54176657
>Friedman

That's all I needed to know.

>> No.54176762

>>54176725
stop masturbating you degenerate leftist tranny

>> No.54176776
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>>54176657
>At this point we are not identifying the current executives, as there is an unfortunate stigma [attached to the industry],” Friedman said

>> No.54176858

>>54176749
What does that mean?

>> No.54176898

>>54176657
>solomon friedman

>> No.54176930

>>54176776
is being a porn company exec the most ideal job in the world?
>nobody wants to do it because of retarded american puritan stigma
>always in demand, you can basically set your own salary
>impossible to go in the red unless you're clinically retarded
>guaranteed profit during your entire tenure, making you look like a business administration god

>> No.54176943
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>>54176858

>> No.54177024

>>54176657
>“At this point we are not identifying the current executives, as there is an unfortunate stigma [attached to the industry],” Friedman said.
Lmfao

>> No.54177048
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54177048

I'll say it since you cowards don't have the courage to:
Pornhub hasn't mattered since they nuked all their unverified amateur content and then nuked their search algorithm

>> No.54177055

>>54176930
how do you make profit tho? nobody pays for porn... right? right??

>> No.54177075

>>54177055
ads, premium accounts, affiliates, merch

>> No.54177386
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>>54176657

>> No.54177472

>>54176657
i havent used pornhub since they purged so much of the amateur content.

>> No.54177546

>>54177472
>>54177048
Where is the best now?

>> No.54177591
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>>54177546
none
the company's segmented out this way precisely to contain backlashes to one subsidiary

>> No.54177593

>>54177075
Nobody wants to advertise on porn sites or wear a t-shirt that says I LOVE PORN. Okay some people do but they're freaks

>> No.54177599

>>54176657
>Discuss
Every. Single. Time

>> No.54177628

>>54177546
Find a chick to sext
Or even better find a chick to bang

>> No.54177895

>>54176725
yeah i dont see why or how there is a market for new porn. There is enough porn out there for generations. I could cum every day to a new porn and die without having seen half of them. We just need to end the industry.
Also I mostly switched to 2d because I don't feel gross after the fact. 3d is disgusting when you're not aroused, 2d is just stupid.

>> No.54177946

>>54176657
The only group worse than jews, canadians.

>> No.54177966

>>54176705
It’s perfectly ethical to acquire capital while harming goys. It says so in the Talmud.

>> No.54177974

>>54176858
newfag

>> No.54177994

>>54177546
>Where is the best now?

IMO it depends on what kind of content you like. Personally, I still think Pornhub is good for high quality amateur content, but as others have said, the search sucks, and they got rid of millions of videos.

If you like compilation videos, porn music videos (cock hero etc), or webcam screen captures, then Spankbang is actually the best.

Other than those I think Xvideos and XNXX are okay, but I think those two are owned by pornhub/mindgeek whereas SpankBang is independent.

>> No.54178053

>>54177055
>>54177075
>>54177593
Certain people are whales and will spend tons of money on camgirls, chaturbate and other cam groups make money & advertise on pornhub. Some people pay for porn subs, so pornhub pushes brazzers ads as well because it is owned by the same parent company.
Also adult products such as sex toys and suppliments advertise as well.

>> No.54178057

>>54177895
>yeah i dont see why or how there is a market for new porn

I think the market for it is actually pretty small. If you go on pornhub or any other big sites and click "verified channels" or whatever, there's really only a handful of studios producing porn videos under a variety of names. They produce and sell DVDs or digital copies to absolute gooners or rich perverts who have no problem paying for their porn. By paying they get access to higher quality videos than you can get for free online. The free videos on pornhub and other sites are basically just advertisements to get that small number of people to convert into paying customers (probably far less than 1% of viewers).

Personally I think that 2006-2020 or so was likely the golden age of free porn. Now that OnlyFans has taken off, plus the total amount of free porn that still exists, I think the existing traditional studios will have a more difficult time making money in the future. Especially since now after 20-ish years of free streaming internet porn, we are starting to see negative effects in society (incel neets, broken marriages, women turned into turbosluts)

>> No.54178077

>>54178053
I know a guy who has rich parents and through the grapevine heard he spent $50k on camgirls. Dude is kind of manlet but otherwise has chad-tier bone structure and features, never had problems getting gfs. I can't imagine spending that kind of money on porn. I can't even imagine spending 50 bucks. But for some rich people it's apparently not an issue

>> No.54178134

>>54178077
Yeah, I bought a 1yr sub for a website for around $70.I figured years of free porn, might as well try it & I liked their content.
Covid happened & the stopped making content & just released compilations & old videos they acquired the rights to.
Never again.

>> No.54178145

>>54178077
I really don't understand it, if you're going to be a 'patron of the arts' type there are so many better itches to scratch. I haven't seen a single onlyfans page or camgirl that would be better than a mediocre prostitute and you can get a lot of mediocre prostitutes for 50 grand.

>> No.54178159

>>54178134
I should really start proofreading my posts.

>> No.54178266

>>54177966
go and find some other site to sully

>> No.54178413

This probably belongs on /g/ but I know there’s a fair amount of people here to at browse there so here it goes: would making a porn site be profitable, especially if dedicated to amateur shit? There was a time where I considered just making my own porn with random sloots but I have a gf now so that’s out of the question

>> No.54178518

>>54178413
Are you jewish?

>> No.54178701

>>54178518
Unfortunately no

>> No.54179489

>>54178701
Then why are you trying to run a porn company? Faggot

>> No.54179558

>>54179489
Because I want money from doing basically fuck all

>> No.54179800

>>54179558
Jewish

>> No.54179910

>>54176657
>he believed the lawsuits as well as criticism of MindGeek stemmed from a misunderstanding of how the company is now safeguarding its content
This is a nonstatement. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't mean anything. But the people in the room where he said this didn't have the balls to call him out on it.
This is how evil works.

Think about it.
How in the fuck does the way it "safeguard's content NOW" (which there's still pedo stuff ocasionally) affect how Elles and Maryjane Auryn were the most popular pages in the PAST?
Just kill evil people.

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>>54176657

>when you don't even have to check the early life section

>> No.54180125

>>54176657
>stigma
>unfortunate
On the contrary!

>> No.54180175

>>54176718
The money is made when you destroy Western civilization

>> No.54180250

>>54176705
This is how jews operate. They also call their politics "progress".

>> No.54180278

>>54176858
did you just wake up from a coma since 2013

>> No.54180303

>>54176858
>Jews being responsible for the proliferation of degeneracy and destabilization in society in just a conspiracy theory! Don't be racist! One human race!!!
Fuck off faggot.

>> No.54180427

>>54176776
Never identify a Jew!

>> No.54180527

>>54178413
I'll give you a real answer. You'd need niche content

>> No.54180772

>>54176657
>name all four pornstars
1.akira
2.????
3.????
4.???

>> No.54181021

>>54177994
I'm often surprised by the amount of full length movies on SpankBang, especially JAV. Their UI is dogshit though.

>> No.54181221

Good thing ive started using chaturbate now

>> No.54181259

>>54176657
I'm going to commit step-terrorism. It's okay it's not real because "step".

>> No.54181624

>>54176705
At least "MindGeek" was an honest name.

>> No.54181658

>>54176657
>$460M in 2018 revenue
from distributing free porn?

>> No.54181704

>>54181658
Ads and PH Premium. The latter being some sort of OnlyFans knock-off, I think.

>> No.54181722
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just a coincidence

>> No.54182058

>>54176858
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1679092034475788.webm

>> No.54182289

>>54181722
>friedman
You can't make this shit up

>> No.54182418

>>54181021
>>54181021
>I'm often surprised by the amount of full length movies on SpankBang, especially JAV. Their UI is dogshit though.

yeah they have tons of JAV stuff. My guess is that it simply isn't that popular of a porn site. I remember when it came out years ago, probably over a decade, then I never heard anything about it. I think porn studios don't even really know about it so they never bother to send takedown or copyright notices or whatever. Plus I've noticed that a lot of the full length movies/videos on there often have different or completely random alphanumeric titles, but somehow their algorithms still suggest it to you

>> No.54182490

>>54178145
>>54178145
>I really don't understand it, if you're going to be a 'patron of the arts' type there are so many better itches to scratch. I haven't seen a single onlyfans page or camgirl that would be better than a mediocre prostitute and you can get a lot of mediocre prostitutes for 50 grand.

This is in the USA, there really is practically no prostitution here. Sure there used to be backpage.com and there pseudo prostitute sites like seekingarrangement.com, but otherwise there are no actual prostitutes here outside of places like Las Vegas or New York and Miami and some of the huge cities. Even then, there aren't that many of them compared to what you'd find in a typical European, Latin American, or Asian city. Even though some of them are high class, I feel like it kind of ups the gross factor because you know like in any given city the same 100-200 women are fucking every whoremonger. Whereas in a mid-sized European capital city like Madrid there might be well over 500 hookers on the street on any given night of the week, to say nothing of the higher class higher cost hookers.

Anyway, I can't speak to why he would spend so much on camgirls, maybe he thought if he did she would marry him, Idk

>> No.54182572

>>54178413
Personally I've wondered if it would be possible to make a racially exclusive porn site. I simply don't want to see black guys in porn when I'm just browsing the page. Even if I'm watching a wholesome porn with 2 people of the same race, the sites will often have a suggested video in the corner with a negro. This immediately upsets me and makes my peepee go soft.

I know there was a site called 1488tube.com but I think it just scraped from bigger sites and ultimately it got shut down or something. I don't mind seeing white dudes fuck women of other races, but I just have no desire to see black dudes in porn.

It's not even much of a racist thing, it's just it takes the suspension of disbelief away from me. Like, if I'm watching a porn with a white/jewish male actor, I can imagine that it's actually me/my dick fucking the hot woman. But if it's a black guy with a black dick...I just can't insert myself into the scene, because my dick is white which is the opposite color of black. No amount of pretending can make me think I am the black guy fucking the woman. Even with latino or asian male talent, I can still basically imagine that I am them fucking the woman, because their dicks aren't that much of a different color than mine. But black dicks literally look like poop and I just can't pretend my dick is like that.

Not sure how you'd go about making a site like this though

>> No.54182599

>>54176858
lurk moar

>> No.54182631

>>54182572
>wholesome porn
coomers really deserve the rope at this point

>> No.54182892

>>54176858
It's German, this board hates Germans.

>> No.54182982

>>54182631
let's be real there are different levels. A video of a man and woman in relationship having sex, or a video of a woman masturbating, is nowhere near as degenerate as gangbang or facialabuse porn, and that stuff is less degen even than scat porn and other weird fetish shit. By comparison, it is wholesome

>> No.54182997

>>54182058
Kek, not bad.

>> No.54183282
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>>54177546
have sex. incel.

>> No.54183659

>>54176657
>as there is an unfortunate stigma [attached to the industry],” Friedman said

oy vey

>> No.54183699

>>54176718
>see no money here
people who get salaries on onlyfans where the cumulative sum is higher than what you can get in decades with traditional work.

>> No.54183864

>>54179910
The superficial videos that are free are usually cut and edited short version of the full video.
So the full videos are also stored but not available to everyone and in them there's things that aren't in the free parts.
And of course there's entire videos from the same filming days and sets like the backstage boring shit and stuff that's recorded for non public clients.

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>>54177994
mindgeek doesn't own xvideos. they tried to buy them out in 2012 but the owner told them to fuck off, he's playing diablo II right now lol

xvideos operates out of prague. there's no way all their amateur vids are verified, but they did comply with LEA years ago and shut their site down for days to clean house, i remember that

from there, i think it's pretty much like this site. if you upload or download anything sketch on xvideos, that shit is on you. i hate the illegal, trafficked shit, but i still like seeing amateur af porn from 3rd world shitholes too. it feels more raw and realistic than the vanilla verified amateur shit you can only see on mindgeek's sites now

>> No.54184448

>>54176657
What's with the censorship in your post? This is 4chan you fucking nigger.

>> No.54185000

I don't watch new porn anymore. These days its all about tattoos, piercings, landwhales, and insane huge tits. The action's gotten kinda tamer as well. I remember back in the day doing a gangbang was sort of a requirement. Now a girl can go her whole career as a porn star by taking just a single cock in every scene. Gangbang Girl 32 - Gauge and some other girl got slammed in a tire shop. 2nd scene saw a girl getting taken on a football field by the whole team.

>> No.54185049

>>54176858
stop noticing things.

>> No.54185184

>>54177386
Hymie-sense tingling?

>> No.54185233

>>54176657
>>(((“At this point we are not identifying the current executives, as there is an unfortunate stigma [attached to the (((industry)))],” Friedman said.)))

>> No.54185392
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Several prominent Jews shaped the global pornography industry:
-David Marmorstein Tassillo, owner of Mindgeek, one of the largest porn conglomerate in the world, owns Brazzers, Pornhub, RedTube, YouPorn, Xtube, Digital Playground, Mofos, Nutaku, Reality Kings, Sean Cody, Twistys, WhyNotBi.
-Mindgeek(formerly Manwin)'s large-scale expansion is financed by Colbeck Capital Management, owned by former Goldmann Sachs Jewish bankers Jason Beckman and Jason Colodne, along with investors such as Fortress Investment Group, where majority of Fortress' senior partners are Jewish.
-Samuel Roth, an American Jewish publisher and writer, won a court case that opened the way to the production of pornographic material in the USA.
-Alvin "Al" Goldstein, an American Jewish pornographer known for helping normalize hardcore pornography in the United States.
-Greg Lansky, a French Jewish founder of Vixen Media Group in 2014, one of the largest companies in the adult entertainment business.
-Steven Hirsch, an American Jew, is the founder and co-chairman of the adult entertainment company Vivid Entertainment, which he founded in 1984. It has been estimated to be the top adult entertainment company.
-Gloria Leonard, an American Jew credited to be the pioneer of the "phone sex" industry.
-Joanna Mostov(professionally known as Joanna Angel), an American Jewish pornographic and mainstream actress, director, and writer of adult films. According to Encyclopedia of the Zombie, Angel is "regarded as a major influence in the mainstreaming of alt porn", and is credited with making the genre financially viable.
-Reuben Sturman, the son of immigrant Russian Jews, sometimes referred as the "Walt Disney of Porn", was an American pornographer and businessman from Ohio, who co-founded sex toys company Doc Johnson. He was featured as a subject in Eric Schlosser's 2003 book on underground economies, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market.

>> No.54185620

>>54176657
top signal?

>> No.54185949

>>54176718
>Draining the life force of the most powerful nation in history while selling drugs for the chronic depression and sickness it causes isn't profitable at all.

>> No.54185984

>>54176657
Why did I know it was going to be a Jewish name as soon as I saw the name was ethical capital?

>> No.54185989

>>54176705
>>54176749
>>54176762
>>54176776
>>54177024
>t. degenerates posting on a porn message board.

>> No.54186159

>>54185000
even 18 year olds in porn aren't hot as the 18 year olds in 2011-2019

>> No.54186166
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Daily reminder jews literally use pornography as a weapon against subjugated populations.

>> No.54186190

>>54180278
You forgot bc

>> No.54187614

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-HH-hGXwsQ

Trailer. The upcoming manufactured shift to the christian right.

>> No.54188089

>>54177024
>unfortunate stigma [attached to the industry]
I wonder what he could be referring to!
Surely this could not be the 6th millionth time this happens.

>> No.54188101

>>54176718
its not about the money

>> No.54188649

>>54176657
Translation the executives are all jews

>> No.54188725

>>54176930
>american puritan stigma
Hating pedos isn't puritan

>> No.54188742

oy fucking vey

>> No.54189742

>>54185392
Thanks

>> No.54189755

>>54186166
While I don't doubt they would do this, I once looked into this and the sources I found seemed very few and kinda sketchy. I'd like to hear more corroborating evidence and witness testimony about this.

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>>54177994
gitgud the conglomerate shit is just a funnel for their paid content

>> No.54190690

>>54177994
xvideos isnt owned by mindgeek, but they censor content.

>> No.54190725

>>54176657
I was wondering why there's so much negro and shemale porn suggested on ph lately.

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>>54176657
This PE firm literally didn't exist before March. It was just spun up to complete this acquisition. They have no other companies in their portfolio. Something fishy.

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>>54176858
Brother.

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>>54176657
>>Friedman
like pottery

>> No.54192635

>>54176657
1. asa akira
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???

>> No.54193871

>>54188725
americans think 18-19 is pedo and 20-24 is "predatory"