Judge Spanks Insatiable Gay Porn Pirate
Written by Ernesto on October 03, 2008A federal judge from California again backed a major gay porn distributor by slapping a previously convicted pirate. The man in question, Gilbert Michael Gonzales of Palm Springs, has now been told told that he will be arrested the next time he is caught with his pants down.
This is not the first time that Gilbert Gonzales, also known as “MikeyG”, has been to court for his sharing habits. Last year, we reported that he was identified as the leader of ‘an online gay porn piracy ring’, against which Titan Media filed a lawsuit.
Titan Media advertise themselves as ‘the premier creator of all-male erotica’ (aka ‘gay porn’), and they are known to go after sites and individuals who they say are illegally using their content. Gilbert Gonzales, who regularly posted infringing files on his weblog, was one of the key players according to the company,
In April, Gonzales was served with a $1.275 million default judgment for uploading 17 films to file hosting sites, but that didn’t stop him. He continued to share the work of Titan Media and its parent company Io Group Inc., and often accompanied his uploads with the message: ‘I will never stop sharing what I have with others.’
According to a report from AVN, the court was not amused by Gonzales’ repeated and defiant offenses. Judge Marilyn Hall Patel wrote in a second order for injunctive relief that, if he continues to share infringing material, “the court shall issue a warrant for the arrest of Gilbert Michael Gonzales.”
Since the regular anti-piracy outfits (MediaDefender excluded) don’t want to be associated with companies such as Titan Media, with the CEO of BayTSP saying: “We don’t want to be known in the porn space,” they had to go after the pirates themselves. With some success it seems, as the company managed to track down the remaining 21 “John Doe’s” that were listed in last year’s complaint.
Most of the 21 others have already decided to settle for a substantial, but undisclosed amount. Among these men were architects, restaurant owners and several married men, according to Io Group vice president Keith Webb, as if that should be some sort of surprise.
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When sex is commercialized, it should no longer be considered “speech” or “art” and has the same meaningfulness and value as prostitution. The same goes for culture–when culture is commercialized, it is no longer “speech” or “art” and has the same meaningfulness and value as prostitution.
Roze
http://www.28chan.org/fs/ <- A file-sharing discussion board
interesting :p
torrentfreak, be ready to answer your questions about homosexual rights, your sexual orientation etc…
that company really showed him that he cant fuck with them :D
lol wut
next time download straight porn.
muppet.
first they came for gay porn and I said nothing…
next they took all the lesbian porn and I said nothing…
then they took the german porn and I said nothing…
then they took my porn and there was no one left…
“Gonzales was served with a $1.275 million default judgment for uploading 17 films”
Gay or not, that’s a stupidly disproportionate amount of money for any video (they’re damn sure not “films”, what a laugh). How do they justify these damages? The only damage accrues to the people that watch these pieces of “art”.
“next time download straight porn.
muppet.”
does it hurt when you try thinking???
How about some hot P2P action! LOL
limewire/Gnutella network
will someone please think of the children?
pls seed stuck @ 2%
AIDS kills fags dead.
@3
Who cares if he is gay? He is a pirate! He is one of us!
Besides, lots of people are gay. It’s a pretty common thing. What are you, like 5 years old or something? Get used to it.
This time its gay porn but tomorrow it could be your favorite type of porn that gets put on trial.
Ch!ld pr0o0n
is best :D
AIDS kills fags dead
AIIIIIIIIIIIII ??
@ Sebastian Bach
You said: “AIDS kills fags dead.”
Last time I checked, it kills straights as well. ;)
Anyways, yeah… that is a lot of money to be fined for sharing some cheesy porn flicks. And it is also true that if a bunch of hicks sit back and say “it’s queer shit, I don’t care,” then it’ll be that much easier for the porn companies to start catching people who are downloading hetero porn in the future.
Does this, technically speaking, make him a ‘butt’ pirate?
Come on, doesn’t anybody remember the AIDS Kills fags dead shirt and Sebastian Bach? And yes I am well aware that aids kills everybody, except for Magic Johnson.
Gay Butt Pirate….
Aww you guys new it was comming!
spyware & pr0n.
just thinking about the pop-ups and botfarms makes me limpish.
#12 yer comment is the funniest thing I’ve read since the last time I saw it here. funny funny funny, dood.
Seeedz pls
This guy has massive balls. I mean… he really gives it out hardcore. Most people stop after being served once; but 17 times and he’s back for more?
I guess the punishment of going to jail for endless servings of his favorite activity doesn’t scare him much.
god dam. the entire torrent community could use a little more uploader ‘dedication’ such as this. This guy def has big shiny balls. Comcast (or similar) sends us a simple letter and were lighting up boards in panic.
Go Mikey go. Lead the community. You’re a true VIP in my eyes buddy.
Seems they finally got wise.
By the lack of outrage that would normally accompany such an article, it would seem the anti-pirates have figured out that you need to nibble at the fringes of a movement before you can gain any traction.
They have pirates.
The public appears to hate gays.
An intersection gives you gay-pirates… everyone hates them, easy marks.
He was obviously running a warez board. Rapidshare kind. They picked on the easiest gay porn guy they could catch. That is right #25.
i’m glad they got the judgement that they did. don’t you pirates understand that when people don’t pay for content that companies have paid to create…eventualy the content goes away entirely. if the companies don’t have money to make the content, because it is given away for free, then the content stops.
@#27: That remains to be tested, which we are in the process of..
Right now, it seems that some people will always pay for content, even if there’s free content available.
As long as the companies make a profit, they will produce content.
‘don’t you pirates understand that when people don’t pay for content that companies have paid to create…eventualy the content goes away entirely. if the companies don’t have money to make the content, because it is given away for free, then the content stops.’
*YAWN*
HEy bearbisquit!
2001 called. They want their arguement back. Welcome to the new millenium my friend.
OR NOT.
@27
Yeah, like the only content that is produced is the content that comes from being paid rather than out of love… surely the idea of people “doing it for love” is absurd…
@ the guy that said aids kills gays
you know, stats have shown that more straight people have aids than gay people.
I hope he doesn’t catch Bad Aids
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kFNs2mOkKzc
bearbisquit , That’s an old argument. They’ve been saying that for years, YEARS! And guess what, there’s still music being produced, movies being made. I think you can rest that argument, it doesn’t hold water anymore.
@#1
people have to make a living you jackass. just because someone charges money for their art doesn’t negate the artistry. what a deluded little idiot you are. the only person that could possibly have such a cock-eyed, baseless opinion is some jobless little loser living in his parent’s basement. i suppose you think teachers are prostitutes too? afterall, shouldn’t teaching the next generation be enough of a reward? please kill yourself.
@33
The difference is that teaching is a job, art is more of a personal/social thing. Teaching is merely meant to perform its function, whereas art is meant to be more meaningful.
best fucking title evar!
@ 14
not my Ass-to-Mouth porn… NOOOO!!!
@ Cult Leader Lettuce
Last time I checked AIDS hasn’t killed anybody, get your facts strait!
AIDS is a a Immune Deficiency disease that was genetically Engineered by the United States, and accidentally released (or a control, in their experiment) in 1982. The Soviets always were experimenting with genetic strains of a form of HIV, the virus that is the cause of AIDS…
and you the Pat Robinson of the world, as usual, get your facts wrong.
Yup… the world is only 5000 years OLD… PRAISE JESUS!
All you Atheist Communists… burn in the lake of fire!
The article is a little unclear about how the legal process works. Someone doesn’t just get “served with a $1.275 million default judgment for uploading 17 films to file hosting sites”.
He would have been served with a lawsuit alleging that he violated copyright by uploading those films. The lawsuit (complaint, technically) would have claimed that he caused $1.275 million in damage to the plaintiff. The $1.275M is probably what the statutory damages works out to be for 17 films, I haven’t done the math.
The defendant then failed to respond to the lawsuit. By failing to respond, he let the plaintiffs win “by default” – the same as if an opposing sports team doesn’t show up for a game.
So, the defendant lost his right to argue about the facts or the damages because he failed to participate in the legal process, and the plaintiffs get whatever it was they were asking for.
Of course, getting a $1.275M default judgment against someone isn’t really the same thing as actually collecting it – nor does it mean that the person stops doing what they were doing. In a literal sense, the only thing that’s happened to the defendant so far has been that he received some paperwork which he ignored. Chances are the original lawsuit also requested that the defendant be ordered to stop pirating movies, too.
Hence, the judge’s comments that if he doesn’t start paying attention to the court’s orders, he’s going to be looking at jail time, not just financial consequences that don’t mean much to people who don’t have anything in the first place. (I don’t know what the uploader guy has, maybe he’s a multimillionaire – but chances are if he was, he’d have defended himself.)
wtf where have all the seeders gone??????? stuk at 98%!!!! CMON!!!
this guy deserves as much support from the pirate communities as anyone. set your predjudices aside for the greater cause.
Sounds like this guy needs to take his action offshore to a country not so scared of the US Kangaroo courts!
Jiff
http://www.privacy-center.ru.tc
I herd Pedobear is dancin in the wood?
Wow, there are some ignorant mother f***ers on here. I find it really funny that it’s somehow funny because it involved gay porn. Even so-called tolerant people are snickering. Well go ahead. Just remember, if this pirate ship goes down for good, we all go with it. It’s really not amusing to laugh at your fallen comrades and it really says a lot about your character.
And AIDS is really not that amusing. It’s not a gay disease and it kills many people across the globe every day. (As in it is the cause of their death, not the thing that actually kills them, so don’t start.) Those people include children who inherit it from their parents. If cancer’s not funny, neither is AIDS. Now please STFU and sit down.
I wonder if a child-porn producer can also sue for copyright violation?
Maybe everyone involved should be extradited to a country like Saudi Arabia, where that kind of stuff is a severe violation of their laws there.
No explanation as to how the guy was caught or how the 21 other guys were found. How does a private company do that?
@45
“(As in it is the cause of their death, not the thing that actually kills them, so don’t start.)”
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semantics is the dead horse that pirates will continually flog to make themselves feel better about stealing.
i am surprised that you’re surprised they applied the same childish debate technique to the topic of AIDS.
How the hell can anyone stake a claim for copyright on porn movie? There are no artists, there is no new idea, anyone can do it! ;)
Mikeyg is still doing this on a site called ourgtn.org under names like badchimp and other ids
This has been an Orpheusman TM. production
I guess that judge needs to look at gtn.
OurGtn is nothing more than a bunch of pretentious freaks.
Boy, you really do sound disturbedly schizzo … I remember having seen this Orpheustroublemaker on other sites where he got banned.
Found a new site to stir things up?
Gay Torrent News…….KABOOM
Orpheusmoron you’ve got nothing – better go see a shrink b4 it’s too late.
Again another lame prick that wants my attention..why is it always the trolls or losers that are always trying to get my attention positive or negative and cant tell who they really are. THIS IS ME I AM USING MY REAL ID. I know you cannot, because you guys have no balls. Its always behind fake names and fake ids you spin your evil. Now do’nt you have some chat room you need to run off to and live in, i guess that is your substitute for real nuts.This is a huge waste of time i am off to the clubs while iam sure you are off to some chat room near you.
OK Kids – lets clear a few things up:
1. To all you “Fag-Haters” out there – I have been HIV+ for 6 years now and completely off of my meds for over a year – and I haven’t died yet.
2. Yeah, I got spanked – but NOT because I’m an “Insatiable Gay Porn Addict” – I created a site that allowed members to share whatever they pleased – thus the 21 Does.
3. I am no longer a member of the GTN pirate site. I was a Mod there because I was ASKED back after a nasty crash last year. Since that time, GTN has reverted back to it’s old ways by promoting undeserving members and punishing people who don’t go along with the current regime. Plus, when I first stumbled upon GTN, it was a “freer” site – there weren’t rules but rather guidlines and it worked – everyone behaved. Not true anymore so it was time for me to leave.
4. NO – my computers have never been seized and I am still around on various other sites. I will never share anything Titan-related again because I’ve been warned – twice. But there are others out there who will continue to do so. I am not encouraging them or helping them to do this in any way – take my situation as a legitimate warning – they are watching and you will be caught eventually.
so there it is – in black and white.
Well said MG especially on point number 3. But, most already know how gtn is. That is why most dont speak there unless they are part of the little nazi group or blind sheep. On another point how could you be so upset with gtn when you are there less than a week or so ago talking and posting titan films? PS The nasty crash was gtn being spanked for being bad. Guess they have not learned from the past so they are doomed to repeat it.
“posted by [someone else]“? That is funny: reading these blurps it is so bloody obvious this is the same guy posting here all over again … you’re pathetic!
Doesnt a webmaster monitor this site?
Apparently not – and if “someone else” really had their facts straight, they would realize that I haven’t been a registered member of GTN for almost 2 months now.
Whats obvious is that MG and Anon are working together. As far as Anons other observations wrong again and if you really knew the truth you would still be stupid. Try again and next time dont hide behind MG. This practice of changing the facts and deleting others post so you look right all the time, or trying to change public perceptions might work in gtn but, not in the real world.
I think I will repeat myself when I say that you suffer a form of mental illness, drawing conclusions as you do.
I am not working with anyone or a website and I cannot delete responses on torrent-freak; it appears the discussion here drew the webmaster’s attention.
Furthermore my observation that you were or indeed are the same person but now as ‘SOMEONE ELSE’ was not “wrong again” as you have just confirmed that very fact.
I rest my case. Go see a professional, for your own sake. You still show the same behaviour I remember you by.
I think the topic of deleting post was on gtn , not here . Again i think you show how stupid you really are and how much you are working for gtn. Nice try, now try harder because you are still stupid . Now everyone knows how stupid you really are. And again if you think everyones views are related to one individual, you must really have a hard on for that guy.
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