Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has filed a major lawsuit against approximately 50 sexually explicit websites, all associated with the multinational pornographic conglomerate known as Aylo.

The suit, filed in Marion Superior Court, alleges that the defendants are violating Indiana’s Age Verification Law and the state’s Deceptive Consumer Sales Act, thereby enabling minors to access harmful and obscene content, including videos depicting sexual violence and child sexual abuse material.

The lawsuit was formally filed on December 3, 2025, and names multiple Aylo entities, including Aylo Freesites, Ltd., Aylo Premium Ltd., Aylo Holdings S.A.R.L., and Aylo Global Entertainment Inc. The complaint demands a jury trial, seeking an injunction to halt the alleged violations, civil penalties, and the recovery of costs incurred during the investigation.

Indiana’s Age Verification Law, passed in 2024, mandates that websites hosting pornography must implement a reasonable third-party age verification method to ensure users are at least 18 years old. This requirement goes beyond the current system used by Aylo’s websites, where users are merely required to click an “enter” button to confirm they are over 18.

In response to the Indiana law, Aylo, which owns and operates some of the world’s most visited pornographic platforms, including Pornhub, blocked direct internet traffic from Indiana IP addresses. However, the Attorney General argues that this measure is insufficient and deceptive.

“Rather than implement any form of reasonable age verification for its websites, Defendants represented to Indiana consumers, including Hoosier parents, that they had ‘completely disable[d] access to our website[s] in Indiana,’” the lawsuit states. “However, Defendants have publicly admitted they know that Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), proxies, and location spoofing software may be used to continue to access Defendants’ websites in Indiana.”

An investigator from the Attorney General’s office successfully used a VPN with a Chicago, Illinois IP address to access numerous Aylo-owned sites, including Pornhub.com, Brazzers.com, and Redtube.com, without encountering any verifiable age-checking mechanism.

Attorney General Rokita emphasized the grave risks posed by continued access for minors.

“We know for a fact, from years of research, that adolescent exposure to pornography carries severe physical and psychological harms,” he said. “It makes boys more likely to perpetrate sexual violence and girls more likely to be sexually victimized. Yet, despite such realities, these defendants seem intent on peddling their pornographic perversions to Hoosier kids.”

Beyond the age verification violations, the lawsuit also alleges that Aylo repeatedly violated the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act. These violations stem from misrepresenting the accessibility of their websites to Indiana residents and providing misleading information about their efforts to restrict Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and Nonconsensual Material (NCM).

Despite Aylo’s claims in transparency reports and press releases that “consent” is a “core value” and that they are “committed to preventing and eliminating illegal content,” the lawsuit points to evidence of widespread noncompliance.

The complaint cites a 2020 New York Times editorial, “The Children of Pornhub,” which detailed that “many videos” on one of Aylo’s websites depicted assaults on unconscious women and girls.

Furthermore, the lawsuit highlights that between 2020 and 2023, Aylo permitted the upload of at least 11 million photos and videos without verifying the identities or consent of all individuals featured. Mandatory proof of consent for all individuals was not required until January 23, 2024.

According to data cited in the lawsuit, thousands of pieces of potential CSAM were reported on Aylo’s platforms each year. For instance, in 2021, over 20,400 pieces of content were identified as potential CSAM on Pornhub.com.

The state is demanding that the court compel Aylo to implement the mandated third-party age verification methods and cease all “unfair, abusive, and deceptive acts, omissions, and practices.”

Aylo, which is based in Canada and operates through a complex, interrelated corporate structure, provided an official statement when contacted for comment. “Out of respect for the integrity of court proceedings, our policy is not to comment on ongoing litigation. We look forward to the facts being fully and fairly aired in that forum.”

The legal action follows a June 2025 ruling by the United States Supreme Court that upheld a “functionally identical” Texas age verification law, determining that the government had a legitimate interest in shielding children from obscene material without substantially burdening protected speech. This ruling cleared the path for Indiana to proceed with the enforcement of its own law.

You can view the lawsuit here.