Hong Kong-based Oron.com says it’s just an ordinary cloud storage company, like Dropbox or Apple’s iCloud. So why, it asks, should an American pornography distributor get an order freezing all of its assets and effectively shutting down its business?

The porn company — San Francisco-based DataTech Enterprises, also doing business as Raging Stallion — says there’s a key difference: Oron’s users post their content publicly, not to a private account, and Oron then pays them a commission when other users pay to download the files.

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