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• The 18 USC §2257 record-keeping regime: 1988-2026 — The US federal record-keeping requirement that has structured adult-content production compliance for almost four decades — its 1988 origins, the amendments that have reshaped its operational meaning, the 2010s litigation that narrowed its enforcement scope, and the post-2020 environment in which the regime now operates.
• How adult-content discovery works in 2026: SEO, AI search, and the directory layer — The traditional path from intent to adult content (search query → SERP click → site visit) has been reshaped over 2023-2026 by AI-search-engine arrival, SafeSearch defaults tightening, and the rise of directory-layer discovery alongside the tube-site dominance. A working overview of the contemporary discovery topology.
• The economics of independent adult studios: a Mylfed case study — A working overview of how a single mid-tier adult production house — Mylfed — fits into the post-tube, post-OnlyFans, post-payment-processor-pressure economy of the independent adult industry, and what its catalog structure reveals about studio-led production at scale in the mid-2020s.
• The post-2020 payment-processor reordering of adult media — How a sequence of Mastercard, Visa, and platform-policy decisions in 2020–2021 restructured the compliance, distribution, and labour landscape of the legitimate adult industry — and what the new equilibrium looks like five years later.
• Tube-site economics and the consolidation of adult video distribution — How the free-to-view tube-site model that emerged in 2006–2007 reshaped adult video distribution, what the consolidated ecosystem under MindGeek/Aylo and its peers actually looks like in mid-2026, and where the structural pressure points sit going forward.