'I can tell you this as a criminal lawyer myself, illegal content is not an adult entertainment problem. So why did this Ottawa firm want to take it over?įriedman said he took a deep dive into the company's operations and safety protocols to counter illegal content and said he 'just couldn't pass up the opportunity.' MindGeek's website boasts 115 million daily visitors to its various porn properties, which include websites such as YouPorn, Redtube, and Brazzers. Pornhub has been mired in controversy amid multiple lawsuits alleging the site's owner allowed child sexual abuse material and other illegal content to be uploaded and profited from it.

Solomon Friedman is one of the partners of Ethical Capital Partners (ECP), a private equity firm founded last year in the nation's capital that announced on Thursday it acquired Montreal-based MindGeek, the owner of Pornhub. The terms of the deal are not being made public. An Ottawa lawyer used to defending people from serious criminal allegations is now hoping to write a new chapter in the story about the world's largest - and highly controversial - porn site.

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