Brazzers

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Brazzers
Company type Subsidiary
IndustryPornography
GenreAll
FoundedJune 22, 2005;18 years ago (2005-06-22)
Montreal, Quebec [1]
Headquarters
Montreal, Quebec
,
Canada
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
 Fabian Thylmann
Products Pornographic films
Parent Aylo
Website Official website OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Brazzers ( /ˈbræzərz/ , company name: MG Premium Ltd.) is a Canadian pornographic video production company with headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and legal domicile in Nicosia, Cyprus. With an online network consisting of thirty-one hardcore pornography websites, the company's slogan is "World's Best HD Porn Site!". [2] The site contains 10,036 videos, which were published by 33 different sites (December 2020). [2] Their network of sites features 2,340 pornstar models (December 2020).

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History

Founded in 2005 by a group of Montreal investors, Brazzers became part of a larger group of pornographic sites under the corporate name of Mansef. In 2010, Mansef was sold to Fabian Thylmann and rebranded as Manwin Inc. [3] [4] In December 2012, Thylmann was extradited from Belgium to Germany on suspicion of tax evasion. [5]

In October 2013, Thylmann sold Manwin's assets, including Brazzers, to an internal management group, MindGeek. [6]

In 2014, Brazzers celebrated its 10th anniversary with a billboard in Times Square in New York City. The digital billboard was located at the corner of 47th and 7th and viewable for the entire month of August. [7] In 2010, Brazzers had used a Times Square billboard to promote its safe sex campaign and to announce its "Get Rubber!" slogan and website. [8]

In September 2016, Vigilante broke the news of a database breach suffered by Brazzers, which affected almost 1 million users after the site was hacked in April 2013. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

The Brazzers logo has changed a few times, however still maintaining the yellow and black coloring and placing an emphasis on the double z letters for branding. [14]

Operations

Brazzers is owned and operated by Aylo, a multinational officially registered in Luxembourg. [15] The company was formerly known as MindGeek.

Brazzers came under industry criticism for associating with streaming media sites like Pornhub. In response, in 2009 the company initiated an anti-piracy campaign. [16]

Litigation

In 2008, after being fired, producer Bobby Manila sued Brazzers for fraud and violation of the terms of his contract. The lawsuit was eventually settled. [17]

In February 2010, Pink Visual Studio sued Brazzers' parent company, Manwin, for copyright infringement by distributing unlicensed video content on its free video-sharing sites. Brazzers' network has been accused of benefiting from unlicensed content by indirectly benefiting from traffic from sharing sites, but this was the first time a well-known studio had filed a lawsuit. A class action lawsuit was considered by other studios. [18]

In 2018, the Government of India banned Brazzers, among other porn websites, after a Uttarakhand High Court court order demanding the same in a rape case where the perpetrators stated they were motivated to do so after watching online pornography. [19]

Ranking

As of July 2021, Brazzers.com has an Alexa traffic ranking of 3,576. [20]

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