Crackdown on File-Sharers Trading in Gay Porn
Written by enigmax on October 03, 2007After being a relative safe-haven for file-sharers, the sharing of porn is becoming the latest target for increased legal action. Following on from promised action against people involved in mainstream porn, a leading distributor of gay porn is now flexing its muscles against those it accuses of infringing its copyrights.
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve reported how parts of the adult content industry is aiming to tackle sites which they believe are involved in the illegal distribution of their intellectual property.
Titan Media advertise themselves as ‘the premier creator of all-male erotica’, (aka ‘gay porn’) and they are also cracking down on sites and individuals who they say are illegally using their content.
Previously, after the CEO of anti-piracy company BayTSP refused to chase porn file sharers saying: “We don’t want to be known in the porn space”, companies like Titan had to go it alone, even going as far as complaining directly to KaZaA in 2004.
No stranger to taking (or at least threatening) legal action against P2P in more recent years, Titan has previously targeted sharers on the eDonkey and other networks, including several blogs.
Now, according to industry publication AVN, Titan Media has shut down what it calls ‘an online gay porn piracy ring’, which in reality were half a dozen blogs (some hosted by Google) carrying links to gay porn stored on sites such as Rapidshare.
The lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California names Gilbert Michael Gonzales (aka ‘MikeyG’) as the brains behind the operation, also listed 21 ‘John Doe’ as defendants and alleges copyright infringement of 45 Titan Media productions.
President of Titan Media, Keith Webb told AVN: “The message we are sending is that you can run, but you cannot hide. Mr. Gonzalez thought he could hide behind anonymous blogs and postings, but he was seriously mistaken. People need to realize that nothing they do online is anonymous. Every single posting, upload, download, or page view is tracked and recorded, and can eventually be traced back to the individual. Mr. Gonzales taunted us in his online blog postings to try and catch him and shut him down…so we did. If you steal Titan Media property, we will identify you and we will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.”
Back in 2004, Titan admitted tracking down those it said infringed its copyrights and threatening them with legal action. However, as an alternative to a messy and costly lawsuit, it offered alleged file-sharers an amnesty in return for them taking out a valid subscription to Titan Media’s products. Titan did not immediately respond to emails requesting a comment so we are unable to confirm if this is still the case.
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titan sucks.
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I’m going to have to side with the porn industry on this one. I don’t want gay porn showing up in my torrent searches! I really don’t want any porn showing up in my torrent searches. I’m not against porn. But I just don’t really care for it as far as torrents go. That’s why I like Demonoid, no porn. And fuck canada! Ah, just kidding. They have good beer.
[quote comment="180575"]I’m going to have to side with the porn industry on this one. I don’t want gay porn showing up in my torrent searches! I really don’t want any porn showing up in my torrent searches. I’m not against porn. But I just don’t really care for it as far as torrents go. That’s why I like Demonoid, no porn. And fuck canada! Ah, just kidding. They have good beer.[/quote]
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[quote comment="180575"]I’m going to have to side with the porn industry on this one. I don’t want gay porn showing up in my torrent searches! I really don’t want any porn showing up in my torrent searches. I’m not against porn. But I just don’t really care for it as far as torrents go. That’s why I like Demonoid, no porn. And fuck canada! Ah, just kidding. They have good beer.[/quote]
So … Do tell, What exactyl DO you Download so as i may add this to not only include gay porn but also what you download as well - Typical. As long as it doesn’t effect you it’s fine - Wait until the story’s about YOUR interests…. ;)
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I’m detecting a subtle correlation of humor here.
[quote comment="180030"]Most of these type file sharers surely reside in Canada anyway. Maybe they can form a coalition with ex-demonoid users and march through the streets in their underwear together. xD.[/quote]
“its ok” I can tell you must be from the U.S. - go suck some ass you closet queen.
It’s about time they starting doing something about all that faggot shit on the internet.
Since when did Westboro read TorrentFreak?
So how long do they expect gays to continue their patronage of the companies who do this, once they get a reputation for outing gays?
I wonder if the gays are just going to just take this like men or pussies? (Had to ask!)
You don’t need to ask such things we all know gays are feeble minded weak creatures exploited for their anus.
I’m sorry, but ‘gay porn piracy ring’ jut had me in tears of laughter. It’s called a cockring, you use them in your films enough… god.
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I’m really starting to lose faith in this site. Comments are more discouraging and ornery than they are interesting or entertaining.
This from an industry wracked with piracy themselves. What’s that big porn industry forum, can’t remember the name, sure someone here will. One of the guys running some of the biggest porn sites in the US has already been chased by dvd producers for stealing their copyrighted work and making it available on his websites. He uses intimidation and bullying tactics to get his way, and when they dont work, he just uploads other’s content anyway and ignores copyright issues. They need to get their own house in order before they start chasing the poor defenceless gays lol. Instead of offering them paid settlement why doesn’t titan just have some lovely new curtains made, or get their offices redecorated in some lovely pastel shades by the guys they catch.
I completely understand the thought process behind this, but the entertainment industry (porn, music, movies, etc) is seriously just killing themselves with bs link this. you go and out people? like wtf! no gay, but half of my friends are lez. I can’t imagine what this dude is going through if he was closet.
as far as the it doesn’t effect me attitude, it does. hearing crap like this only makes me want to start running ftp servers again.
He’ll I’m not even into gay porn, but i think a seeding team should be made, just as a f’u to these guys. Hell I’ll buy them if people want to seed them
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