[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Itshim

Very true have to look as if they are doing something. Yet another waste of money.

Complete waste of time, they will not pay the fine as Ofcom cannot enforce it on a company outside of the UK. Think of all the tax payers money wasted on investigating this and then have no return for all that effort. Ofcom are very quick to say who they have issued fines to, however they will not say who have actually paid them verses who has not.

More detailed info here

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/...e-verification

We suspect the likelihood of Ofcom ever seeing the money from this fine is low, and the most likely outcome will be that the bevy of sites that 8579 LLC operate will end up being blocked from UK IP address blocks. The question is whether the firm will bother or if Ofcom has to get UK providers to block the sites.

The reality is that even if the government blocked the IP's for these sites anyone who still wants to visit them will just circumnavigate the issue via a VPN