Ofcom Complain To Dutch Regulator

There are several big differences. Some of the channels banned were broadcasting material beyond R18. Also despite being based abroad their primary market was the UK and possibly Eire. That immediately weakened their position, if they were aimed at their home markets and the UK was incidental it would have been harder to ban them under the law at the time.

As it was the bans made it illegal to advertise the channels, sell decoder cards or publicise them. In the UK.

Regulation has moved on since then and there may be new tools in the toolbox that we havent thought of, but Sky is an open platform that is legally obliged to carry channels without favouritism and Eurotic is a well established channel with a genuinely internation audience. Ofcom would be hard pushed to convince a foreign regulator that the content is harmful or even causes offence.

Until they do that it cant be banned from Sky. And since there will be no need to buy a decoder card, they won't need to advertise and the premium rate phone lines cant be blocked a lot more people will be able to watch and call.

As channels go its definitely different.