Key facts
- Stripchat lost its legal challenge against EU tech regulators' decision to include it under the Digital Services Act.
- The European Commission designated Stripchat as a very large online platform three years ago.
- The Digital Services Act requires very large online platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content.
- Breaches of the DSA can result in fines of up to 6% of a company's global turnover.
- Stripchat disputed the European Commission's user number calculation used for DSA classification.
- The General Court rejected Stripchat's arguments, stating the Commission provided adequate reasons for its decision.
Adult content platform Stripchat, a subsidiary of Cyprus's Technius, has lost its legal challenge against the European Union's decision to classify it as a very large online platform under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The ruling was made by Europe's second-highest court, the Luxembourg-based General Court.