Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement

This summer, we discussed news that the producers of The Hurt Locker had sued 5,000 people for sharing the movie over BitTorrent. Reader suraj.sun writes with word that a porn company is now following suit, filing a complaint targeting 7,098 people for illegally sharing one of their films. Quoting: "Axel Braun Productions filed the complaint Friday in US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, alleging that the defendants illegally shared the adult film Batman XXX: A Porn Parody. The film was written and directed by Axel Braun and distributed by Vivid Entertainment, one of the country's best known porn studios. ... '**** 'em all,' Braun told Xbiz. 'People don't realize that when you pirate a movie it hurts all of the people who work very hard to get it produced — from the cast to the production assistants to the makeup artists. So we are going after every one of them who pirates our content.'"

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Re:Havent seen it. Let me go Download it...

[Zero__Kelvin]

"The reason porn cannot be sold to minors is that it is considered worthless and thus not protected by the first amendment."

The reason porn can be sold at all is be cause it is protected by the First Amendment. If it was not protected, then it couldn't be sold to anyone. The fact that it cannot be sold to minors is due to a specific exception to said free speech statutes. In fact, a recent case even suggests that the mere appearance of depicting minors, when they are in fact adults, may be protected as well: (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California)

"In the recent Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition case, however, the Court held that sexually explicit material that appears to depict minors might be constitutionally protected."