Review of Pornocracy

Film about online porn, and mainly about Pornhub and the constellation of companies around it. It points out that the internet has more or less killed off the traditional porn industry of exploitative and nasty content producers, and replaced it with what is effectively a massive public pirate site - and no-one cares much about the property rights of the content producers, or the deteriorating pay and conditions of the people working in the industry, because hey it's porn.

But it doesn't really answer the question that it raises - how does Pornhub and its associated companies, which are massive and must have huge servers and pipes - make any money? The content is mainly free (and stolen), and the ads are mainly for other sites owned by the company. The subscriptions and the external ads don't seem able to cover the costs. 

One possibility that's raised but not really spelled out is that it's actually a massive money laundering operation. I tried to see if anyone else is alleging this, and can't really find anything substantial.