Legal adult biz in UK
 

Adult sites are legal in UK or not ?
Its problem with co.uk domain that with server location ?
If server will in USA but domain co.uk then all is OK ?
Please details

do you live in the UK?

but will move soon
what diference ? please details

you need to follow the law of the country you reside in, so if you relocate to the UK you will indeed need to follow UK law.

no restrictions on .co.uk domains as far as i am aware.
hosts vary in their TOS so ask if adult is ok before you purchase any.
there are several nono's in the uk, scat, piss, violent ie depicting rape etc, some forms of bdsm and obviously cp to name but a few.

if you do not have an understanding of our laws then i would not bother as there's no money in adult!

I have payistes with big tits, bbw, now Im going to launch webcams too

Sounds legit Indian Bulgarian for sure.

He?ll get in no problem; we have Muslim vigilante gangs prowling the streets now to make sure all Brits are under sharia law. That?s how "culturally enriched" we are now.

It's illegal to produce porn in england.

Its legal to run porn business in UK and shoot porn in UK. Model should be over 18 and you should have model ID (passport or dirving license ) and proper contract signed with model and medical test certificate

We shoot lots of solo porn in UK and still doing so....100% legal.

No it's not. It's perfectly legal, having a .co.uk porn site is also legal although ATVOD will be all over it and you will have to pay up to stream the material.

As mentioned above, scat, cp etc, anything the gov consider 'extreme' is illegal, which is a very loose term.

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Poor little white man, he used to have an empire and run the world, its so sad.

Dont forget our good friend ATVOD...

Now he just visits GFY and spews the bile he's read in the Daily Mail/Express.

I'd shoot in the UK but I wouldn't run a site here. Far too many regs with regards to streaming etc.

Better licensing content to a Dutch or Cypriot company.

its legal to use .uk ...

cheerz

I love the uk!!

You'll need to check out ATVOD if you intend to make editorial decisions in the UK and have video on your site. If so then you are supposed to comply with the 18+ checks etc. Even if you host and run the site outside of the country, but make those editorial decisions here you have to pay.

There are two main regs. to comply with when dealing with ATVOD:
1) You can't show any R18+ content in the free area, that means cock, pussy, penetration. Anything that you would see on TV for example a figure nude in a movie or babe in a skimpy thong on a babe channel you can show.
This brings me onto the first bullshit contradiction about all these regulations. If you wanted to buy an 18 video as opposed to an R18 video in a store you would have to prove you were 18, fine. However 18 level content is streamed via Sky onto our TV sets every night across a multitude of channels with no controls at all, not even compulsory pinning of all the channels.

2) You can only allow people that are 18 or over the ability to join your members area. This is done by only accepting credit cards, debit cards and bank accounts are not allowed.

Atvod seemed to have admitted defeat in being able to regulate UK sites in an equitable manner as they have now suggested to the UK government that they make it illegal for banks to process adult site memberships unless age can be verified. Essentially this would mean only credit cards being used but having it done at a higher level rather than individual site level. This would effect all UK memberships to all adult websites.

I have never known an organisation so utterly clueless and misguided about part of an industry that they are supposed to "know" about, after all they are the regulator.
One final time ATVOD.........UNDER 18'S DO NOT PAY FOR PORN........SEND EVERY ADULT WEBMASTER TO THE FIRING SQUAD AND YOU WILL NOT MAKE ONE IOTA OF DIFFERENCE TO THE ABILITY FOR KIDS TO SEE PORN......UNLESS YOU BLOCK ALL THE TUBES AND FREE CAM SITES.....WHICH YOU WON'T FUCKING DO COS THAT'S TOO EASY !

All governed by OFCOM where the broadcaster resides in the UK. Not all of them do, same as ATVOD which only relates to the UK. Every other European country has their equivalent as it is part of euro wide treaty. Hence why I wouldn't like to be running in tube sites in say, germany or belgium.

Also the content is not strictly what you would imagine an 18 classification is. For FTA channels (Free to Air) there is no genital display, no penetration, no pink etc. When there is, then there are fines, or the offending owners were not regulated by the UK. Channels that broadcast harder content are required to operate behind a red button, which is deemed to be adult verified as the owner of the equipment is then liable. A SKY channel for example is just a rented pre-tuned channel number on a satellite receiver.

To broadcast a channel first you need an uplink facility, then you buy a transponder downlink channel, then you just pay SKY to allocate one of their numbers to receive a particular frequency and some insurance bond. If they do restrict anyone, then it's just down to how they want their channel allocations to look and pretty much anyone complying with legal broadcasting is allowed to do so. There are plenty of channels you can get on a SKY box by manual tuning that have not bought a "channel number" either from finance or broadcast non-compliant material.

If the purchaser of that channel lies outside of the UK, but conforms to european broadcasting regulations within the country that they operate in then SKY are "almost" obligated to provide services so as to avoid anti-competitive business or something.


However, ATVOD are going to be able to flex more muscle over the coming years as their remit is expanding slightly and they are of course being buoyed up with the massive amount of money already being paid. As they get more money, they will be able to expand their legal and collection teams, probably farming these out as pay/reward options. i.e if you are a legal firm and they send you a list of 500 websites and you manage to get the fee or fine out of the site then you take a percentage as legal "fees".

That is all true, although one of Atvods "favourite phrases" is that the "R18 online content should be treated the same as offline content. ie. dvd's going to a licensed store, proving age and buying a DVD" So why would that principle not apply to 18 content ? It's all adult, it's all regulated by the same people ? Atvod are just the waste product of Ofcom anyway.

Should say I don't agree with your last paragraph, they are small and also clueless, they have a so called big cheese Pete Johnson, trying to make a name for himself but they find it extremely difficult to defend their position, that's why they've gone crying to Maria Miller calling for a blanket ban. There's so much inconsistancy if it was any other industry/sub industry it would be a national scandal and heads would roll.

so I can't run tube site where are free movies ?
what if domain is com but server only in UK ? or if domain is co.uk but server in US ?

IGNORE - Drunk Again... :( Sorry...

Polite repost - My bitterness is not desrvered on you, as you dont know any better - Sorry...

If you wanna start an adult biz, dont try and do it in the UK - So much shit that you obviously dont know about (re the UK)

Try somewhere else :)

Have duck :thumbsup

I dont want start adult biz in UK, I work in adult biz 12 yeras :) I want only move sites to server in UK

Make up your mind dude?

Why on earth would you host here when bandwidth costs are more expensive than Germany/NL/US/France.

i have tube and webcams.. its VOD for UK law ?

ATVOD...

I give up...

I want move sites to server in Uk but Im not sure if I will live in OK..what you can t understand ? where my servers will and where will I live its 2 differrent things

What I cant understand - Seriously... Is..

Wy the FUCK you want to be - IN ANY FUCKING WAY SHAPE OR FORM - Associated with the UK???

I'm really NOT being funny, but nearly 99% of UK residents are MOVING THEIR BIZ AWAY FROM THE UK...

Yet you... The obviouse GENUIS, want to SET UP A BIZ n the UK??? :helpme:helpme:helpme:helpme:helpme:error:error:er ror:error:error

It's where you publish from, not where you host.

Exactly... Most peeps I know, now 'publish' from outside the UK... Usually in America, or Canada...

Yet this clown wants to operate out of the UK???

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