founded june 22 2005 ; 11 years ago 2005 06 22 1 headquarters montreal quebec canada area served worldwide key people feras antoon ceo david tassilo coo lenc sterili ceo products pornographic films parent mindgeek website www.brazzers.com brazzers br z rz is a pornographic production company based in montreal quebec canada . the online network consists of thirty one hardcore pornography websites . as of october 2015 brazzers.com has a traffic ranking of 1 650 . 2 while their sites are managed from montreal most of their scenes and photographs are shot in las vegas los angeles and miami . contents 1 history 2 operations 3 litigation 4 awards 5 references 6 external links history edit founded in 2005 by a group of montreal investors brazzers became part of a larger group of pornographic sites under the corporate name of mansef . in 2010 mansef was sold to fabian thylmann and rebranded as manwin inc. 3 in december 2012 thylmann was extradited from belgium to germany on suspicion of tax evasion . 4 in october 2013 thylmann sold manwin s assets including brazzers to an internal management group mindgeek headed by ceo feras antoon and shareholder david tassilo . 5 in 2014 brazzers celebrated its 10th anniversary with a billboard in times square in new york city . the digital billboard was located at the corner of 47th and 7th and viewable for the entire month of august . 6 previously in 2010 brazzers had used a times square billboard to promote its safe sex campaign and to announce its get rubber slogan and website . 7 in september 2016 http vigilante.pw broke the news of a database breach suffered by brazzers which affected almost 1 million users after the site was hacked in april 2013 . 8 9 10 11 12 operations edit brazzers is currently headed by ceo feras antoon and owned and operated by mindgeek a multinational officially registered in luxembourg . 13 brazzers came under industry criticism for associating with streaming media sites like pornhub . in response in 2009 brazzers initiated an anti piracy campaign . 14 the company was acquired by manwin in march 2010 . 15 litigation edit in 2008 after being fired producer bobby manila served brazzers with a lawsuit for fraud and violating the terms of his contract . the lawsuit was eventually settled out of court . 16 in february 2010 a lawsuit was filed by pink visual studio accusing brazzers parent company manwin of infringing on copyrighted content by distributing unlicensed video content on their free video sharing sites . brazzers network has been accused of benefiting from unlicensed content by indirectly benefiting from traffic from sharing sites but this was the first time a well known studio had filed a lawsuit . a class action lawsuit was considered by other studios . 17 awards edit 2009 avn awards best adult website 18 2009 avn awards best new video production company 2009 avn awards best big bust release big tits at school 2009 xbiz award affiliate program of the year 19 2010 avn awards best big bust series big tits at school 20 2011 avn awards best membership site network 21 2011 avn awards best big bust series big tits at school 21 2011 avn awards best vignette release pornstar punishment 22 2012 avn awards best big bust series 23 2012 avn awards best membership website 23 2013 xbiz award nominee vignette release of the year for big tits in sports vol 9 and day with a pornstar ; additional nominations include vignette series of the year for big tits in sports and milfs like it big and all girl series of the year for hot and mean 24 2014 xbiz award studio site of the year brazzers.com 25 references edit brazzers.com whois dns & domain info domaintools . whois . 2016 . retrieved 2016 02 21 . brazzers.com site info . alexa internet . retrieved may 18 2014 . meet the new king of porn . retrieved january 18 2012 . porn king detained on suspicion of tax evasion . retrieved december 17 2012 . fabian thylmann sells stake in manwin to company management . retrieved december 17 2012 . smithberg allen . brazzers marks 10th with times square billboard . avn.com . adult vide news . retrieved july 31 2014 . javors steve . brazzers unveils massive new york city billboard . avn.com . adult video news . retrieved september 13 2014 . breach of brazzers forum bbc http www.bbc.com news technology 37285715 breach of brazzers forum hibp https haveibeenpwned.com pwnedwebsites brazzers breach of brazzers forum mybroadband http mybroadband.co.za news security 178474 the south african government departments exposed in the brazzers porn forum hack.html breach of brazzers forum thenextweb http thenextweb.com insider 2016 09 05 hackers ejaculate 800000 brazzers accounts onto the dark web breach of brazzers forum lifehacker http www.lifehacker.com.au 2016 09 brazzers porn site forum hack lead to 80000 accounts exposed manwin op rations en coulisses . retrieved october 12 2013 . webmasters seek solutions in tube site wars . xbiz . retrieved july 25 2011 . pardon rhett july 15 2010 . brazzers mofos tube sites acquired by manwin . xbiz newswire . retrieved april 22 2012 . manila vs. brazzers.com settles out of court . xbiz . retrieved july 25 2011 . adult studio tackles tube sites . afterdawn.com . retrieved july 25 2011 . 2009 winners . avn award . retrieved july 25 2011 . 2009 xbiz award winners . xbiz . retrieved july 25 2011 . 2010 avn award winners . avn award . retrieved july 25 2011 . a b 2011 avn award winners . avn award . retrieved july 25 2011 . 2011 award winners . avn award . retrieved july 25 2011 . a b 2012 award winners . avn award . retrieved november 21 2012 . xbiz nominees 2013 xbiz january 2013 dan miller january 24 2014 . 2014 xbiz award winners announced . xbiz . retrieved january 25 2014 . external links edit official website v t e american pornographic film studios active duty adam & eve anabolic video athletic model guild bang bros bijou video brazzers caballero home video catalina video clubjenna cobra video cockyboys colt studio group combat zone corbin fisher devil s film diabolic video digital playground elegant angel evil angel evolution erotica extreme associates girl candy films girlfriends films grooby productions helix studios homegrown video hot desert knights hot house entertainment hustler video jet set men jm productions juicy pink box kink.com larry flynt publications lightspeed media corporation lucas entertainment mantra films naughty america new sensations nova studios pink visual puppy productions raging stallion studios randy blue reality kings red light district video sean cody shane s world sin city smash pictures studio 2000 sx video third degree films third world media titan media treasure island media triangle films vca pictures vivid entertainment vivid superhero wicked pictures zero tolerance entertainment list category v t e mindgeek studios brazzers digital playground men.com reality kings video sharing websites pornhub network pornhub pornmd redtube xtube youporn other mydirtyhobby sextube television playboy tv spice networks related articles fabian thylmann playboy enterprises wicked pictures retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title brazzers & oldid 744315492 categories companies based in montrealfilm production companies of canadafilm production companies of the united statescanadian pornographic film studiosamerican pornographic film studioserotica and pornography websitesinternet properties established in 2005milf pornographyhidden categories use mdy dates from february 2016pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages catal deutschespa ol fran aisfryskbahasa indonesiaitaliano polskiportugu s svenskat rk e edit links this page was last modified on 14 october 2016 at 12 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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