The Utah Department of Commerce has agreed not to enforce a controversial law requiring age verification on adult content websites and to crack down on VPNs that seek to circumvent it — at least until a federal judge rules in the case.

Aylo Freesites, the owner of some of the largest adult websites in the world, including Pornhub, is suing Utah over the law. They have asked a federal judge for an injunction that would block the law from going into effect, arguing it subjects any website that hosts adult content to potential civil or criminal liability.

So far, U.S. District Court Judge David Barlow has yet to issue a ruling on Aylo’s injunction request.

But in a recent court filing obtained by Fox 13 News, the Utah Department of Commerce and Aylo entered into a joint stipulation. The agency would not enforce the new law pending Barlow’s ruling or until after administrative rules setting the specific terms that adult sites would have to follow to comply with the law are hammered out. In exchange, Aylo agreed to keep its current “geofencing practices” in place (Pornhub and other sites have blocked Utah IP addresses as a political protest of the Utah Legislature’s bills).

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