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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Pornography |
| Genre | All |
| Founded | 2004; 21 years ago (2004) |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec ,Canada |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Fabian Thylmann |
| Products | Pornographic films |
| Parent | Aylo |
| Website | Official website |
Brazzers (/ˈbræzərz/, company name: MG Premium Ltd.) is a Canadianpornographic video production and distributing company headquartered inMontreal,Quebec, and legaldomicile inNicosia, Cyprus. With an online network consisting of thirty-onehardcore pornography websites, the company's slogan is "World's BestHD Porn Site!" and features paidsubscription-based content.
As of December 2020, the company features 2,340 different models and publishes across 31 different sites.[1]
Founded in 2004 by a group of Montreal investors, Brazzers became part of a larger group of pornographic sites under the corporate name of Mansef, which combined the names of founders Stephane Manos and brothers Sam and Hassan Youssef.[2][3] The name, "Brazzers", was a humorous mispronunciation of the word, "brothers".[2] In 2010, Mansef was sold toFabian Thylmann and rebranded as Manwin Inc.[4][5] In December 2012, Thylmann was extradited from Belgium to Germany on suspicion oftax evasion.[6]
In October 2013, Thylmann sold Manwin's assets, including Brazzers, to an internal management group,MindGeek.[7]
In 2014, Brazzers celebrated its 10th anniversary with a billboard inTimes Square inNew York City. The digital billboard was located at the corner of 47th and 7th and viewable for the entire month of August.[8] In 2010, Brazzers had used a Times Square billboard to promote itssafe sex campaign and to announce its "Get Rubber!" slogan and website.[9]
In September 2016, the data breach monitoring website Vigilante.pw alerted the media to a database breach suffered by Brazzers, which affected almost 1 million users after the site was hacked in April 2013.[10][11][12][13][14]
Brazzers is owned and operated byAylo, a multinational officially registered in Luxembourg.[15] The company was formerly known as MindGeek.
Brazzers came under industry criticism for associating withstreaming media sites likePornhub. In response, in 2009 the company initiated an anti-piracy campaign.[16]
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, forcopyright 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. Aclass action lawsuit was considered by other studios.[18]
In 2018, the Government of India banned Brazzers, among other porn websites, after an order from theUttarakhand High Court demanding the same in a rape case where the perpetrators stated they were motivated to do so after watching online pornography.[19]
As of July 2021, Brazzers.com has anAmazon Alexa traffic ranking of 3,576.[20]
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