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New Copyright Lawsuits Go After Porn On Bittorrent

Posted by Soulskill on from the enjoy-explaining-that-subpoena-to-your-parents dept.

neoflexycurrent writes "Three adult media entertainment producers filed suit Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging copyright infringement against hundreds of anonymous defendants accused of trading videos using Bittorrent. This kind of action resembles the much-criticized mass litigation undertaken by the US Copyright Group against hordes of unknown accused Bittorrent users trading movies like The Hurt Locker. In this case, the subject matter promises to be more provocative."

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  1. Sounds fair by InfiniteWisdom · · Score: 4, Funny

    When people download porn without paying for it it ultimately hurts the working stiffs...

    1. Re:Sounds fair by bytethese · · Score: 4, Funny

      *rimjob*

      er...

      *rimshot*

    2. Re:Sounds fair by rubycodez · · Score: 3, Funny

      but those that ride to the top get paid well. And don't forget those further down the pipe always have various ways for back end money.

    3. Re:Sounds fair by FrankDrebin · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Honestly honey, I wasn't looking at porn, I was applying for work at Research In Motion. Seriously, I'd love to get a RIM job..."

      --
      Anybody want a peanut?
  2. New Copyright Lawsuits Go After Porn On Bittorrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They're not the only ones going after porn on Bittorrent; it's very popular.

  3. Re:Sounds like extortion by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trannies From Hell

    Reminds me of my 94 Ford Mustang that would intermittently fall out of gear on the highway.

  4. Great opportunity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly, we need to relax copyright law in order to hurt the porn industry, for the sake of the children.

    If you support strong copyright law now you hate children, right?

  5. Debbie does litigation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like an orgy of injustice to me. I can't wait to watch all those lawyers screwing everyone and everything. Wheee

  6. Re:If I Had $1,000,000 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cool, let's take every tired Slashdot argument about piracy and make it topical!

    If they made better pornos with hotter girls (like they did when I was 13), people would pay for them, especially if they had a fair price, say $2 each.
    Haven't they heard of "Try before you buy"? I download porn all the time and also own 2,000 porno DVDs. In fact I just purchased the collectors edition of Asian Cumholes 8.
    Most porno is downloaded by "collectors" who would never buy the porn and don't even masturbate. They just want to fill up their harddrives and empty lives!
    How many innocent victims are being accidentally prosecuted by the PornIAA? I meant to download a Linux distro ... really.

  7. Oh to be... by roc97007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...a juror on that trial...

    --
    Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
  8. Re:The circle is complete by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then they came for me, who was sharing porn. I didn't shrug, because it kind of needs both hands to do it properly.

    -- FTFY

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  9. Re:Uh oh by thrawn_aj · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... rewind the boring scenes ...

    You're doing it wrong.

  10. Re:If I Had $1,000,000 by sr180 · · Score: 2, Funny

    My mates all do this already anyway. Whenever we transfer money to each other via electronic banking, (say for footy tipping competitions or the like) we add a description line such as "Big black anal dildos."

    The poor guy who ran our last footy tipping competition had to show up at with his bank statements for a loan he was applying for. Of course his statement was full of payments for dildos, gay sex, escorting etc etc...

    --
    In Soviet Russia the insensitive clod is YOU!
  11. Re:If I Had $1,000,000 by russotto · · Score: 4, Funny

    The poor guy who ran our last footy tipping competition had to show up at with his bank statements for a loan he was applying for. Of course his statement was full of payments for dildos, gay sex, escorting etc etc...

    You think that's bad? A guy I know ran one of those, and had to get a loan from an American bank. And you know what everyone put in the memo line? "Footy-tipping competition", that's what.