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  • Hot Money: Who Rules Porn?
    2022/05/25

    When Financial Times reporter Patricia Nilsson started digging into the porn industry, she made a shocking discovery: Nobody knew who controlled the biggest porn company in the world. Now, Nilsson and her editor, Alex Barker, have figured out who the guy was, and much more. Their reporting reveals a shadowy power structure that includes billionaires, tech geniuses and the most powerful finance companies in the world. Coming June 7th.

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    3 分
  • Episode 1: Porn Meets the Internet
    2022/06/06

    Stoya is a porn star who saw first-hand how a firehose of free porn online transformed the adult industry.

    She sends hosts Alex Barker and Patricia Nilsson a quest: Find out who is in charge, and get to the bottom of how the business of porn really works.

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    32 分
  • Episode 2: The Darth Vader of Porn
    2022/06/07

    A decade ago, a computer programmer named Fabian Thylmann began to build one of the biggest porn empires in the world.

    How did Fabian do it? He was good with money in a business that was starved of finance. He convinced Wall Street to bankroll his vision to take control of the industry.

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    33 分
  • Episode 3: Mr. Goldman, Mr. Sex
    2022/06/14

    When Fabian Thylmann ran into trouble with the law, a former Goldman Sachs banker swooped in to buy his porn sites. But nobody knew who he was. He managed to keep his identity a secret for years --- until Patricia rumbled his game.

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    33 分
  • Episode 4: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie
    2022/06/21

    How is it legal for porn sites to host millions of videos uploaded by users? The answer is in the story of an Ohio family in the early 1990s.

    In this episode: a family IT business, an FBI raid and a court case that set the precedent for porn – and for tech giants like Facebook and Twitter.

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    40 分
  • Episode 5: The Billionaire Who Took Down Porn
    2022/06/28

    A billionaire hedge fund manager reads a scathing column about a popular porn site. He sends an angry text to the CEO of MasterCard. Almost overnight, the biggest porn company in the world changes dramatically.

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    38 分
  • Episode 6: Knocking on the Door of a Porn Empire
    2022/07/05

    One of the biggest porn companies in the world was forced to radically change its practices. But another porn giant changed almost nothing.

    Patricia travels to the company's Prague headquarters to understand why.

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    41 分
  • Episode 7: Porn Meets OnlyFans
    2022/07/12

    Alex and Patricia track down the family behind OnlyFans, the site that has transformed online porn by shifting power back to performers. But there is a whole other side to the OnlyFans story.

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    40 分