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Originally Posted by jem
As per ’Sirius’s example above; imagine I run a site, say ‘filthyPornR-US.com’ based in Hungary, I have no presence, no office in the UK, why on earth would I invest time, effort and money in checking to see if any of my ‘clientele’ are connecting from the UK and go through all the efforts to age check?
Of course I won’t, and what can the UK do about it? Sweet FA really! Maybe get a Court order to instruct all UK ISPs to block access, and we all know just how effective these are (PirateBay, anyone?)
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Actually, according to the OSA at least they would have to comply if they are not based in the UK and have a significant number of UK users (this number isn't defined).
There's a checker you can use to see if your site or service is in scope or not.
As for whatever powers ofcom would have to enforce it on a site which wasn't based in the UK, well that remains to be seen, I'm sure at some point they will test it...