Porn Monopoly

On the Media | Oct 31, 2014

You've probably never heard of MindGeek. MindGeek has over 100 million daily visitors. It operates nearly a hundred websites, and consumes more bandwidth than Facebook, Twitter and Amazon. How has MindGeek achieved such success so anymously? The answer has to do with MindGeek’s line of business: pornography. Brooke speaks to Slate writer David Auerbach, who explains how the company gained such dominance in porn.

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