Telecommunications Giant Optus gets $17 million porn bill

TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant Optus has been asked to pay up to $US13 million ($17 million) in alleged unpaid commissions to its former business partner in the international porn trade.

Lawyers for the telco and Gibraltar-based porn merchant Gilsan were in the NSW Supreme Court this week to determine both parties' claims for payment.

The claims follow a sensational civil lawsuit in which Optus was outed as the middleman in the trade of internet porn from the Pacific island of Vanuatu to customers in the US and Europe.

The phone company was also shown to have hosted computers in its Australian data centres from which Gilsan served graphic sex photographs and videos directly to its mostly US and European customers.

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Good grief.

Man, no jobs are safe here in the US!