Porn movie pirates, beware: You may be sued

[bostonkid9]

let them sue ! we have nothing to lose here !! :clown:

You are certainly braver than I am.

 

[Roald]

Sorry Hot Mega but you are clearly not in the industry. And no im not going to argue about it lol

I was once on a panel with the CEO of Hustler and told him that I did not agree with going after the surfer. Of course he dissagreed. So I agree that this is not the best solution but most of your points are just..well...BS. Like you say, you dont know enough about this industry

 

[Patrick_S]

Kind of funny that an industry who constantly steal other peoples ideas (all these retarded "XXX parodies") is going after people who commit copyright infringements.

 

[STDiva]

Until these idiots in these corporations and companies can get the definitions between THEFT and PIRACY right, I will continue to download porn, music, movies, etc. In the meantime, here's a helpful little guide everyone can understand:

That pic doesn't make sense. I mean sure you don't care if your car would be "copied" and is still there but Honda probably would be pissed as that's one less car sold.

That picture is retarded. If you built the car and were selling copies of it, it might make sense.

And don't act like there is a difference between theft and piracy. :1orglaugh When you download a movie, cd, etc, you're stealing, whether you want to admit it or not. Stealing = theft.

 

[Ravenholm]

Yeah so there's to be no dressing up while doing porn. That means no Jack Sparrow outfits. Otherwise you are likely to be sued. After all that would class you as a "Porn Pirate" if you dressed in such a way.

 

[z9102]

That pic doesn't make sense. I mean sure you don't care if your car would be "copied" and is still there but Honda probably would be pissed as that's one less car sold.

And that's the fundamental issue.

Everyone knows that copying digital content is just copying, but it's those who manufacture the content who try to brainwash the public into believing it's theft because they're angry they're losing out on a "potential sale" when it's nearly impossible to determine how much money they've lost.

 

[D-rock]

Seems you've answered your own question from what I can see.


No, Joe Q Public isn't. At minimum these people could win many of these on default as people fail to respond.

I think the consumer ought to come down hard on them not because the consumer of allegedly pirated material is right or wrong but this is IMO a clear attempt to take advantage of a situation and bilk people.

I think if someone broadcasts something they legally own and another person captures it....too bad IMO.

This is just the nature of that business...work to make it tougher to for people to get unauthorized copies of your copyrighted work.

Don't try to go after the very (type of) people who may have spent their money helping your industry become what it is today.

I do admit that I don't know enough about all of this stuff but my basic premise is I don't like them using the system to as a means of raiding the pockets of people who obviously like their work.

Someone is a fan of your work...work with them to give them what they want...not give them the no Vaseline treatment.

But that requires a make lemonade from lemons mentality and not a shyster's mentality.

In an industry where some people try creatively "drive" revenue with things like the "their fish is throwing up bubbles" fund to line their pockets...what else should we expect?

Even if they somehow won against people by default (and that would probably require them to go around the country to charge them in the jurisdiction where those people committed the alleged crime, and they would probably have to charge each person individually unless they were part of some conspiracy against that one production. Although since it's a federal crime at least they wouldn't probably wouldn't have to go completely local.) Still what are they going to do spend thousands of dollars on lawyer fees, even more preparing paperwork and sending it to you in an official manner, even more money gathering evidence and making the courts issue warrants so it can be collected, and even more keeping lawyers on retainer just for your case just to get back that thirty or so bucks that somebody owes them. That assumes they don't accidentally target people that are innocent which these types of things have before. That also assumes somebody just doesn’t fight them and make them drag it out through the courts just to spite them.

Even that would assume they have pretty good evidence against somebody to win the case in the first place. Like I said unless somebody is a big time pirate and has uploaded literally tens of thousands it not hundreds of thousands of dollars of material it's a pretty big waste of resources and doesn't make much sense to go after people like that.

 

[Roald]

article is gone

Yes but don't worry, they are still suing tons of people

 

[PirateKing]

Arr matey yar, ye porn pirates beware or we'll keelhaul you down to Davey Jones' Locker arr!

Stop that!

 

[Ravenholm]

The link in the first post is no longer available. So I didn't get to see what the article said.

 

[Roald]

The link in the first post is no longer available. So I didn't get to see what the article said.

it comes down to companies like Hustler among others are going after the downloaders. So if you download a Hustler video from an illegal source you might get sued.

edit: http://www.alternet.org/story/15186...s_crack_down_by_exposing_illegal_downloaders/

 

[lurkingdirk]

it comes down to companies like Hustler among others are going after the downloaders. So if you download a Hustler video from an illegal source You Might get sued.

edit: http://www.alternet.org/story/15186...s_crack_down_by_exposing_illegal_downloaders/

So, just to be totally clear, if I do something illegal, there may be legal consequences?

That's just fucking outrageous.

 

[Roald]

So, just to be totally clear, if I do something illegal, there may be legal consequences?

That's just fucking outrageous.

Haha yeah no shit huh

 

[StanScratch]

So, just to be totally clear, if I do something illegal, there may be legal consequences?

That's just fucking outrageous.

Yeah. I know. I also read somewhere I could get busted for ass-raping Walmart customers, which is bullshit. I mean, they are asking for it, shopping at Walmart and all that.

 

[larss]

This probably sounds really stupid, but how do you know when you illegally download porn?
There are some sites that let you download when you pay a subscription, and others that let you download when you join as a member!

It's quite simple most of the time. If it is a video from a specific website then the chances are you are downloading an illegal copy if you are not a member of the site and are not downloading from within the site itself as a member.

Larger companies may get very pissed off with this, but it is the smaller performers sites that really take a hit from this, and, even worse, the pirates can make money by the number of times that their pirated copies are uploaded from sharing sites. Most of the time, a stolen credit card is used to purchase membership, a whole stack of stuff is then downloaded before the card is cancelled and the owner of the site has to pay back the money (usually plus a fee to the CC handling company, so they lose out twice), and the stolen material is then uploaded onto sharing sites.

If you like your porn, then download it legally, or you will kill off the small independents and most of the time you will be backing organised crime.