For instance pornography is illegal in some places. A VPN would allow someone to access that site from the host country. Is the host site breaking the law? What about pornography sites that advertise VPNs to get around laws? Are they required to detect or attempt to detect them?
It’s gonna vary wildly by country and jurisdiction, but in general, if it’s illegal anywhere that has jurisdiction over you, it’s illegal no matter what tools you use to accomplish it. But you taking the steps to circumvent the law would show willful intent. VPNs being advertised on porn sites is simply good marketing - got your attention didn’t it?
So that sounds like it’s on the consumption side. But the newer porn laws are on the serving side. Is there any requirement for them to prevent it in general.
If the server isn’t in the jurisdiction of the law, it’s not super meaningful. You can block it in your borders, but your rules don’t apply in different countries.
As far as general requirements to try, it would depend on the law, and even then they’d likely have written it as commercially reasonable efforts, or best effort. If it costs me money, I can argue it’s not commercially reasonable.
The big streamers care because of license agreements. Mindgeek doesn’t care because they own all the licenses.
So Texas for instance sued XHamster which a Cypress company and Chaturbate which I believe is from California. What I don’t get is how Texas could enforce their laws on a company outside of their jurisdiction. Now if they wanted to prevent access to that site by blocking their DNS inside of Texas, then I get that. Texas doesn’t seem to have any laws on the consumer.