I think that having their servers in a location where prosecutors aren't on an obscenity hunt insulates them from many worries. Max, Rob Black, etc, they were shipping DVDs, physical product that can be bought and sold anywhere to establish jurisdiction and get the wheels turning on a witch hunt prosecution.
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Thinking of cracked-out and/or tweaking whores getting their throats and asses brutalized for the next hit makes me hard. --Rear Admiral