Pornographers suing unknown (for now) file swappers in Massachusetts
By adamg on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:09am
Over the past couple of months, companies that produce porn films have filed a series of lawsuits in US District Court in Boston against scores of unidentified BitTorrent users they claim are illegally distributing such classics as "Illegal Ass 2" and "Big Wet Brazilian Asses 7."
The copyright suits list the defendants only as Does, but say the plaintiffs have their IP numbers and will use that to seek their names and addresses from their ISPs. The suits seek an end to the file swapping, destruction of any copies of the films and, naturally, lots of money.
- Patrick Collins vs. Does 1-30 - Copy of one of the suits (they're all pretty much the same, save for the name of the plaintiff, the number of Does and the film details).
- How BitTorrent is used to distribute files illegally - 5M PDF by the plaintiffs' consultant.
- Sample listing of IP addresses
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At least music and film companies
can make the argument that they have to pay residuals to performers and that file sharing cuts into those payments. Patrick Collins and all the other porn studios don't pay a dime in residuals to the performers in their films.
This is nothing but greed and sour grapes from a guy who has made millions off the sweat (literally) of his performers and now because BitTorrent users are not helping him to buy that Aston Martin Rapide he wants, he's got to blame someone. Let's see how far it gets him.
lots of
RIAA/MPAA/COP math in there too.
Oh shit!
Oh shit!
Who downloads "Big Wet Brazilian Asses 7"?
Everyone knows that when they switched directors after "Big Wet Brazilian Asses 4" the series became a mockery of itself.