Originally Posted by Konda

I have never seen Mindgeek join any discussion on GFY to be honest. I think they have better things to do...

Also this is UK Porn age verification is not new. It has been announced a long time ago and has been discussed for years. There have been panels and advisors on this topic at all the big shows in the past years. The only news is that today they announced the final date it will go in effect.
The big companies (including Mindgeek) have been working on solutions for a long time and will be fully ready by April 2018.

For the people that say it won't work, you are wrong. This will happen no matter where you or your site is located/hosted. Sites that don't comply won't be accessible from the UK (it will be blocked on ISP level). So only if you don't want UK customers you can choose to not comply.

In addition the billing companies will enforce is at well, it will be part of their normal requirements just like having 2257 and terms and condition links etc. For example if you have a paysite with Epoch and don't put the age verification for UK in place they will stop processing for your site.

So yes, it is happening. For smaller sites there will be third party solutions that they can easily implement, some companies are working in this and if you use such a solution it's a win win because the data is shared so if a user already verifies on another site that uses it he doesn't have to verify again on your site.