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Episode 5: The Billionaire Who Took Down Porn

Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

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Line Pawn - The Next Big Thing to Regulate Porn

The world of porn might just have its own son of the hays code. There's a really curious system of rules, rules on porn contents,. not enforced by porn producers, but financial gatekeepers the payments world. We realize this sounds odd, it is odd and had raised more questions than answers. And what has this got to do with line pawn? Well, when we saw the power viser and master card had over mingeek, we wanted to understand how they could bring the world's biggest adult company to its knees. It all sounds so strange to day, like something from a bygone age. But after we'd dug into this, we found payment companies were already involved

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