ThisAV

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ThisAV
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 Internet pornography
Available in Chinese
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Hong Kong
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ThisAV is a internet pornography sharing website hosted from Hong Kong, established in 2009. [1] Contents uploaded are mainly in Chinese or Japanese, and are freely available to non-registered users. [2] In 2015, the owner claimed the website to have around10 million accesses from a million unique IP addresses per day. About15% and 60% of those IPs originate from Hong Kong and Japan, respectively. [3]

The site owner claims to be a 1980s Hongkonger, with a background in web hosting since their highschool times. [3] They established the site during the 2008 financial crisis, being unable to find a satisfying career while seeing the potential popularity of a pornography website. [1]

The site became temporarily inaccessible since January 2023, showing its domain name to be on sale when accessed. [4] After its reactivation,[ when? ] the logo of "MissAV" is displayed instead of its typical one, when accessed from a mobile browser. [5] [6]

FANZA, a subsidiary of DMM.com, announced its acquisition of MissAV and ThisAV's .com domain name in January 2025. The company claimed to have tookover the site through legal actions. [7]

History

ThisAV was established in 2009. [1]

The website's theme music, To You That I can't Forget , is created in collaboration with Hong Kongese band ToNick  [ zh ] in 2011. [1] [8] [9]

The website was taken offline temporarily on September 1, 2012, in protest of the Moral and National Education controversy and supporting the Scholarism movement. [2] The message "our government should consider the voice of those Scholarism kids and 90 thousand protesters on the streets" was displayed on the webpage instead. [10] The website included a blue ribbon in its logo after the attack on reporter Kevin Lau. [11] Later during the Umbrella Movement, its typical logo became black-and-white, overlaid with a colored, yellow ribbon. It also released an article satirizing the 8·31 decision. [12] [13]

In January 2025, a US regional court ruled against the owner of ThisAV in absentia, and requested the transfer of ownership for both missav and thisav's .com domain name to the Japanese corporation Will. [14] That same month FANZA announced its takeover of the two domain name through legal actions. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "專訪ThisAV創辦人：我好少睇AV" [Interviewing the Creator of ThisAV: "I don't watch porn very often."]. 壹週Plus. 11 November 2015. Archived from the original on 14 November 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  2. 1 2 Wan, Adrian (2 September 2012). "Porn site urges users to fight against national education in Hong Kong". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  3. 1 2 "ThisAV 專訪 ！解開「技術」問題 – 用 Flash 唔轉 HTML5 ? 低清 ? 無 iOS APP?" [Interviewing ThisAV: "Technical Support": can't use HTML5 but only Flash? Low video quality? No iOS app offered?]. Unwire.hk. 30 December 2015. Archived from the original on 6 January 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "老司機片片掰了！上古神獸級成人網站「ThisAV」突關閉 這網站招手「腥腥」相惜" [Goodbye to Porno! Legendary "Ancient Unicorn" of Adult Site ThisAV's Sudden Shutdown - The "Seminal" Website We'll Be Missing]. udn科技玩家. 4 January 2023. Archived from the original on 22 August 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  5. ↑ "2023上半年回顧｜15個最令香港人難忘的瞬間 00後最關心竟是..." [Reviewing the First Half of 2023 | 15 Unforgettable Moments for Hongkongers; The Stuff Gen Zs Care About the Most is Surprisingly...]. 香港01. 30 June 2023. Archived from the original on 16 March 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  6. ↑ "MissAV 免費高清AV在線看" [MissAV [Adult Video] Watch Free HD Porn Online]. MissAV. Archived from the original on 15 March 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  7. 1 2 "知名成人網站無預警遭關閉 專家示警：難以根除" [Sudden Shutdown of Well-Known Adult Website, Experts Warn: [the problem of content piracy] Won't Stop so Easily]. 东森新闻. 14 January 2025. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
  8. ↑ 謝文哲 (4 January 2023). "世界第一謎片平台「無預警掛點」 老司機崩潰：經典舊片那邊才有" [Popular Adult Site "Disappeared in a Sudden Puff", Fans Upset: "Only There Can We Find [some of] the Old Classics"]. 鏡週刊. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  9. ↑ ToNick - 我不能忘記你 MV. 3 July 2011. Archived from the original on 8 May 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2024– via YouTube.
  10. ↑ "鹹網都暫停 撐學民思潮" [Even Adult Site Stops its Service to Support Scholarism Movement]. 蘋果日報[Apple Daily] . 1 September 2012. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2024– via 聞庫.
  11. ↑ 李八方 (3 March 2014). "隔牆有耳： 香港良心AV人綁藍絲帶" [Always Listening: Conscientious Adult Site Owner Wearing a Blue Ribbon]. 蘋果日報. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2024– via 聞庫.
  12. ↑ "【和平佔中】高登ThisAV標誌轉成黑色" [ OCLP: ThisAV Logo Became Black-and-White]. 蘋果日報[Apple Daily] . 29 September 2014. Archived from the original on 13 August 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  13. ↑ "靚抽王". 忽然1周. 3 October 2014. pp. 78–82.
  14. ↑ "WILL CO. LTD. v. KA YEUNG LEE, Dist. Court, WD Washington 2025" . Retrieved 16 January 2025– via Google Scholar.
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