8579 LLC has been fined an additional £50,000 for not responding to Ofcom’s requests.
UK’s Ofcom has fined porn company ‘8579 LLC’ £1.35m for not having adequate age checks in place. The company has been fined an additional £50,000 for also failing to respond to the media regulator’s request for information.
8579 LLC has been fined under UK’s Online Safety Act. Under the law, websites that allow pornographic material are required to use highly effective age assurance mechanisms to prevent minors from readily accessing adult content. These particular measures came into force in July 2025.
Ofcom has launched numerous investigations on adult content providers in the UK under the year-old law, including Kick Online Entertainment SA, which was fined £800,000 for similar failures earlier this month. Since then, Kick has implemented age assurance methods satisfactory to Ofcom’s requirements.
As part of the penalties, 8579 LLC is liable for a daily additional penalty of £1,000 until it implements age verification tools, as well as a daily fine of £250 until it responds to Ofcom’s requests.
“We’ve been clear that adult sites must deploy robust age checks to protect children in the UK from seeing porn. Those that fail to do this – or ignore legally binding requests from us – should expect to face fines,” said George Lusty, the director of enforcement at Ofcom.
In December, Ofcom revealed that porn company AVS Group Ltd was fined £1m for failing to comply with the Online Safety Act, as well as an additional £50,000 for never responding to the regulator’s queries. AVS later rolled out age checks on its site.
Pornhub also began restricting access to its website in the UK in February this year.
Meanwhile, online message board 4Chan, which is also being investigated by Ofcom for online safety concerns, said that it won’t pay a proposed fine by the regulator, calling the fine an “illegal campaign of harassment”.
Last March, Ofcom fined OnlyFans’ operator Fenix International Limited £1.05m for failing to provide accurate information about the age assurance measures it has in place on the adult-only platform.
Earlier this month, the UK government proposed a new law which would force tech platforms to remove intimate content within 48 hours since being flagged as non-consensually shared or abusive. Fines under the new proposed law could be as much as 10pc of the offending company’s qualifying worldwide revenue.
The proposal comes just after the Elon Musk-owned social media platform X came under fire for enabling the creation and sharing of ‘nudified’ images. Ofcom launched an investigation into the social site in January.
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