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Porn Industry News: Pornhub Returns to Australia & More

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This week’s porn industry news: Pornhub returns to Australia for age-verified iPhone users, OnlyFans rewrites its creator terms, a court pauses Minnesota’s AI nudification ban, and clip stores and subscriptions start to merge.

This round of porn industry news has a little bit of everything. There’s a big platform coming back to a country it left, a major creator site quietly changing its rules, an AI court fight and some smart new ways for creators to get paid. Here’s what happened.

1. Pornhub Is Back in Australia (If You Use an iPhone)

Aylo, the company behind Pornhub, announced on Tuesday that Australian users can access the site again, as long as they’re on an Apple device and have confirmed their age through Apple’s Australian age-verification process, XBIZ reports.

Aylo restricted access to its free video-sharing sites in Australia back in March. That was its response to the country’s new Designated Internet Services Code, which requires sites whose “sole or predominant purpose” is adult content to put age-assurance checks in place.

Aylo has long pushed for device-based age verification instead of site-by-site ID checks. Alex Kekesi, Aylo’s VP of brand and community, said that “today Aylo welcomes eligible age-confirmed Australian iOS users back to Pornhub.” In a longer statement published by AVN, Aylo urged Apple to expand the system globally and called on Google and Microsoft to do the same, arguing that phones, tablets and computers “could and should start as kid-safe devices by default.”

It’s the same move Aylo made in the U.K., where it reopened to Apple-verified users in May. XBIZ notes that U.K. regulator Ofcom has since opened an investigation into whether that approach meets the Online Safety Act, and it’s not yet clear how Australia’s eSafety regulator will react.

2. OnlyFans Rewrites Its Terms of Service

In creator-economy news, OnlyFans has new terms of service that take effect November 1, according to the Riverfront Times. The company emailed creators about the changes on October 1.

The biggest change: OnlyFans can suspend an account and hold earnings if it thinks a creator “may have breached” its rules. The old 2024 terms required a “seriously or repeatedly” breach. Other notable changes include:

  • A ban on tools “designed to collect any data or information” from content, and on using creator content to train AI.
  • A rule that AI-generated or AI-enhanced content must clearly feature the verified creator, not just carry a label.
  • Currency conversion fees taken out of payouts, and the option to add “any Tax, fee or other amount” to fans’ payments.
  • Only “reasonable efforts” to notify users about future changes.

The 20 percent platform fee isn’t changing, and creators still have six months to dispute a suspension, though now it has to be in writing.

3. Court Pauses Minnesota’s AI Nudification Ban

The biggest AI story in adult entertainment news this week comes from Minnesota. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, a temporary block on the state’s first-of-its-kind law banning nudification technology, the Star Tribune reports via GovTech. The law stays on hold while xAI’s lawsuit goes forward, and the one-page ruling gave no explanation.

The law carries a $500,000 fine per violation for tech companies and lets victims sue. According to PetaPixel, xAI says it doesn’t oppose the goal of banning non-consensual AI nudes of real people, but argues the law “extends far beyond that goal” and covers constitutionally protected images. A lower court had refused to block the law in early September. Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office said it respectfully but strongly disagrees with the ruling, adding: “We will continue to vigorously defend the law as the appeal proceeds.”

4. Clip Stores and Subscriptions Are Merging

On the business side, adult creator platforms are blending the two main ways creators get paid. Clips.com has launched StorePlus, which lets creators sell subscriptions to selected clips, from monthly to annual plans and with discount codes, alongside single-clip sales, according to XBIZ. Creators keep 80% of StorePlus sales.

Coming from the opposite direction, subscription site MintStars has launched Clipstore, which lets creators sell individual videos at their own prices with “no subscription required,” AVN reports. It’s open to all MintStars creators now. Both launches follow Clips4Sale’s C4S+ streaming subscription, launched in September, which pools revenue and shares it with creators based on factors including time spent streaming their content.

Quick Hits From the Porn Industry News Wire

  • AVN Awards hosts: Cherie DeVille and Skitty will co-host the 44th AVN Awards Show on Saturday, January 23, at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, AVN announced.
  • Piracy crackdown: Takedown Piracy says it removed 1,884,339 MEGA.nz links to unauthorized copies of its clients’ content between May and September 2026, per AVN.
  • Creator wellbeing: Pineapple Support CEO Leya Tanit will host a mental health panel on online fame at CreatorConX Ibiza on October 15, XBIZ reports.

The Takeaway

Age checks are moving from websites to devices, AI rules are being fought out in court, and creators are getting more ways to sell (along with stricter terms on the platforms they depend on). We’ll keep covering the latest adult industry updates here on the XStream blog, so check back in a couple of days.

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