The lawyer in a landmark civil lawsuit against pornographic giant Pornhub’s parent company says a successful result could rein in harmful practices endemic to online porn. On June 17, Michael Bowe of Brown Rudnick LLP filed a complaint in a California court on behalf of 34 female plaintiffs against MindGeek, which owns the Montreal-based pornographic video-sharing platform. The lawsuit alleges that Pornhub and MindGeek exploited and knowingly profited from child pornography, rape videos, trafficked content, stolen content, and other non-consensual content. The suit represents the first claims against MindGeek under the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act, alleging that the company is a criminal enterprise engaged in financial crimes and human trafficking. Bowe explained to The Epoch Times that a RICO suit “holds everybody in that entity equally responsible if they were an entity that conducted themselves consistently in a pattern of …