Hot Money: The New Narcos

Episode 4: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie

How is it legal for porn sites to host millions of videos uploaded by users? The answer is in the story of an Ohio family in the early 1990s. In this episode: a family IT business, an FBI raid and a court case that set the precedent for porn – and for tech giants like Facebook and Twitter.  If you’d like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to <a data-remove-tab-index="true" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="https://pushkin.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ec28005461416f0b42178894f&amp;id=1694c40f69" href="https://pushkin.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ec28005461416f0b42178894f&amp;id=1694c40f69">sign up for our email list at </a><a data-remove-tab-index="true" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="http://Pushkin.fm" href="http://pushkin.fm/">Pushkin.fm</a>.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Hot Money is back. In this series, Financial Times reporter Miles Johnson investigates a mysterious murder in a small town that leads to a web of drugs, money laundering and state-sponsored assassinations stretching from Dublin to Dubai. At the centre is a cocaine super cartel that is revolutionising the global drugs market. This eight-part investigative podcast, published twice-weekly, probes the links between criminals and legitimate businesses, and between governments and gangsters.