Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons
German law does not allow hardcore pornography without an effective age verification system, and the German Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien" (Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons)" placed YouPorn on its index. As a result, since April 2007, the German site of the Google search engine (codice_1) classified YouPorn.com as a hardcore pornography website and replaced it with a link to Chilling Effects, claiming that a "German regulatory body reported illegal material".