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.'"

Comments

I agree

[should_be_linear]

'People don't realize that when you pirate a movie it hurts all of the people who work very hard to get it produced'

Re:Intellectual Property

[Anonymous Coward]

You downloaded Batman & Robin??

Re:download does NOT equal loss of sale

[rolfwind]

Can we say that not every download is a loss of sale, but some losses of sale can be attributed to downloading?

Just because the RIAA/MPAA presents cases in black and white, doesn't mean we have to. It's harder to make them look ridiculous with their huge fines if we're not grounded in reality either and pretend d/l music/movies is so good that it helps children in Africa heal from AIDS and prolongs unicorn marriages.

Maybe then it would help get saner copyright laws that isn't tilted towards corporate insanity.

Side note

[93 Escort Wagon]

'**** 'em all,' Braun told Xbiz.

Interestingly, this statement also describes the main plot line of Batman XXX: A Porn Parody.

Re:Justifying piracy.

[Paradise Pete]

Piracy isn't theft, yet GPL violations are referred to as "stolen GPL code.

If you can't see the obvious difference between making an unauthorized copy of something and presenting someone else's work as your own then I can understand why copyright law is so screwed up.

Compulsory superman joke

[janwedekind]

Superman is kinda bored so he just starts flying around looking for something to do. He's flying over Wonder Woman's house and sees her bedroom window is open. He stops for a glimpse and sees her lying on her bed naked. She's lying there and squirming around looking real hot.

Superman gets turned on looking at her so he decides what the hell, I can just fly in real quick, give her the ole' in-out and be out of there before she even knows what hit her. After all he is Superman. So, in he goes, wham-bam and he's out of there.

Wonder Woman knew something happened and says, "What was that?" The invisible man says, "I don't know but, damn, is my ass sore."

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

[Teun]

Plus the porn industry is heavily protected by lobbyists from the paper towel industry.