YouPorn & Brazzers about to be shut down ?

[Tender Branson]

German Online Porn King Arrested in Belgium

One of the world's most successful Internet porn magnates has been arrested in Belgium on German tax evasion charges, a prosecutor has said. Fabian Thylmann's empire is reported to include the websites YouPorn, Brazzers and MyDirtyHobby.

German porn magnate Fabian Thylmann, the creator of the Internet platform YouPorn and other websites that reportedly generate some 16 billion hits per month, has been arrested in Belgium on suspicion of evading taxes in Germany, a spokesman for the Cologne prosecutor's office said Monday.

Thylmann, who lives in Belgium, was arrested last week by Belgian police acting on an arrest warrant issued by a court in Cologne, the office said.

According to a report in the daily Die Welt, police also searched the office of a Hamburg branch of Thylmann's international group of companies. Tax inspectors confiscated a number of computers and files at the company, Manwin Germany GmbH. Thylmann's home in Belgium was also searched.

Thylmann, 34, is in custody awaiting extradition to Germany. He comes from Aachen in western Germany and has built up an online pornography empire in recent years.

Die Welt reported that his group, based in Luxembourg under the holding company Manwin Holding Sarl, comprises more than 35 companies specializing in pornographic Web content.

They operate sites such as Pornhub and Brazzers as well as the German amateur sex site MyDirtyHobby. The firms are registered in Luxembourg, Germany, Canada, Cyprus and Ireland.

Media reports say the business generates hundreds of millions of euros in revenue per year and that its websites are among the most visited in the world.

Thylmann has denied the tax evasion accusations.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/german-online-porn-magnate-frank-thylmann-arrested-in-belgium-a-872217.html

That would suck ... Brazzers is one of the best porn sites out there ...

Hopefully they only shut down the German versions, but not the English ones.

[minionofmidas]

Shut down websites? Why? What's that got to do with anything?

(Oh, and the news story I'd read so far only stated that his company/ies also produced porn. Thanks for putting a name on that for me!)

[Tender Branson]

Shut down websites? Why? What's that got to do with anything?

(Oh, and the news story I'd read so far only stated that his company/ies also produced porn. Thanks for putting a name on that for me!)

That's what some newspapers now say:

http://www.oe24.at/digital/Steht-Youporn-jetzt-vor-dem-Aus/87838969

[Simfan34]

[Lief 🗽]

Frightful news!

Simfan, do you not [inks] off to pornography? Because that actually explains a lot.

[Boris]

Frightful news!

Simfan, do you not [inks] off to pornography? Because that actually explains a lot.

www.reddit.com/r/nofap

[Jackson]

[memphis]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
But only because it is a prosecution of a richer tax cheat. If a few porn sites must be collateral damage, I can live with that. Plenty of porn to go around

[CatoMinor]

I saw the thread title and was reminded of the greatest meme ever

[LastVoter]

Frightful news!

Simfan, do you not [inks] off to pornography? Because that actually explains a lot.

We need unionized pornstars, maybe the males of america will get off their asses and ...

[opebo]

Frightful news!

Simfan, do you not [inks] off to pornography? Because that actually explains a lot.

I'm 99% sure he's one of those guys who fiddles it to the pics of pretty girls on tumblr, rather than actual porn.

[Zanas]

Frightful news!

Simfan, do you not [inks] off to pornography? Because that actually explains a lot.

I'm 99% sure he's one of those guys who fiddles it to the pics of pretty girls on tumblr, rather than actual porn.

I actually rarely [inks] off to actual pornography and rather [inks] off to lots of kinds of stuff, including sometimes pretty girls. You got a problem with that ?

[Simfan34]

Bow ties have something to do with it, and opebo is nearer to the mark.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Bow ties have something to do with it, and opebo is nearer to the mark.

Do you have a thing for girls in men's morning dress or something? Because that's actually pretty classy.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

[Oakvale]

Frightful news!

Simfan, do you not [inks] off to pornography? Because that actually explains a lot.

I'm 99% sure he's one of those guys who fiddles it to the pics of pretty girls on tumblr, rather than actual porn.

I actually rarely [inks] off to actual pornography and rather [inks] off to lots of kinds of stuff, including sometimes pretty girls. You got a problem with that ?

[Lief 🗽]

You'll be very proud to know that I met my current lady in an art museum, Simfan.

Though pornography and actual physical interactions, sexual or non-sexual, serve very different purposes.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Bow ties have something to do with it, and opebo is nearer to the mark.

Do you have a thing for girls in men's morning dress or something? Because that's actually pretty classy.

Picture removed due to nature of thread.

Never thought about it, but this is close enough. And it's attractive.

I'm unsurprised. And your taste is almost certainly better than that of most posters here.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's all about aesthetics and it's f**k all to do with morality.

...okay?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's all about aesthetics and it's f**k all to do with morality.

...okay?

The comment was not directed at you, as you seem to acknowledge my point through your use of the word "taste." In fact, I'm not completely sure that anyone who has posted in this thread disagrees with the sentiment.

I acknowledge your point but I don't make a terribly stark separation between aesthetics and morals, personally.

[bgwah]

this thread is so gay.

[© tweed]

I generally go to xvideos or xnxx or xhamster.

[MaxQue]

Great!
We will stop to see their violent and distasteful ads.