Porn Studios Set To Target 65,000 Movie Uploaders
Written by enigmax on September 12, 2009In July many adult movie studios filed a copyright complaint against 10,000 alleged porn uploaders. The producers wanted a large number of convictions but were disappointed when prosecutors went after just 10 individuals. The studios have responded by reporting another 65,000 file-sharers and demanding action.
Two months ago, a collection of fifty US and Japan-based adult movie studios filed a mass copyright complaint against around 10,000 South Koreans accused of being heavy uploaders of porn.
The studios also filed suit against 80 websites accused of aiding and abetting the distribution of the illegally uploaded movies.
A National Police Agency spokesman said that the lawsuit was filed at 10 police stations in the South Korean capital, Seoul, and in the Gyeonggi province. The studios asked the police to investigate the infringements, which carry a potential jail sentence.
However, from the 10,000 complaints issued, prosecutors charged just 10 people with copyright infringement. In response, the disappointed studios say they will fight back. Next week they promise to re-file their lawsuit, but this time will increase the number of individuals accused to 65,000.
Kim Han-Seo, a lawyer representing the movie producers, said that the prosecutors were not tough enough so they had decided to up the ante.
“Now, we’ve drawn up a new list of some 65,000 users who fit this guideline,” he said. “We’ll see whether the prosecutors will press charges against them all.”
As we reported earlier on our sister site FreakBits, at the end of August distributors of a hit Korean disaster movie called in the police after it was leaked to the Internet and was downloaded 100,000 times. Kim Han-Seo said that the Korean authorities had responded quickly to that local problem, but accused them of different standards when it comes to protecting foreign content, such as the material produced by his porn movie employers.
“We believe that [the prosecution] should not be discriminatory in applying copyright laws. Illegal copying and distribution run rampant in Korea because it is one of the world’s most wired countries. We decided to take legal action to minimize our past business losses and to protect anticipated future profits,” he said.
The threat now is that if the local Korean authorities fails to act in a way that pleases the porn producers, they will take their case directly to the US government instead.
The initial lawsuit indicated that the studios had also harvested the IP addresses of around 100,000 individuals who downloaded the adult movies but to date, there is no indication that they will become a target.
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Duh, only 65k. They should get real: sue the whole internet!
@caffeine addict – They said uploaders, not downloaders. Heh-roh!
yes, ofc the police and court have plenty of manpower to investigate 100k ppl and give them a fair trail.
just wont be able to enforce any other law for the next 5-10 years.
@Kim
everyone’s an uploader on bittorent
@caffeine
Not if you use the bastard leecher setup where it’s 100% leech, no upload at all.
Amateur porn FTW.
Scumbag chasin scumbag ,, excuse
“The threat now is that if the local Korean authorities fails to act in a way that pleases the porn producers,”
I guess that’d mean gettin down on their kneez for a nice BloJ
FUck ya!
Don’t touch my porn!
@8 :D hahaha
awwww poor porn producers. guess those whores gotta go back to prostitution
Why does anyone bother downloading professional porn? It looks really fake.
ewww asian porn lol
Over 9000 complaints! Attack the weak point for massive damage!
All of this is going on and I still have not seen screech’s sex tape. saved by the smell sounds like a winner to me. where can I TORRENT it?
“The threat now is that if the local Korean authorities fails to act in a way that pleases the porn producers, they will take their case directly to the US government instead.”
If they are anything like the music industry… they cant be pleased no matter what (short of shutting down the internet and giving them back the good ol’days).
Actually, if they are like the music industry maybe the retractable batons that were given from TPB guys will work with them as well?
Oh teh noes… No moar pr0nz sharing?
WAIT! I’m starting to regret ever getting that 2 girls 1 cup video! Bastard Koreans!
“The end of porn as we know it” … riiiiiiiiiight… NOT!
Don’t see anything happening unless the whole internet goes down… which will never happen :)
Piraten um den sieg!!!
@13
and where is that?
Someone should raid their own families and see if they are completely “clean” of copyrighted material (of any nature). Then they have permission to talk against file-sharers.
The details of this story are still confusing. So the original 10,000 are South Koreans, but is the new list of 65,000 South Koreans? And what does taking action in the United States mean? Going after people in the United States or using the U.S. legal system to go after people in South Korea? Some more details about which studios are involved would be helpful, too.
I’m glad the adult torrent site BootyTape ( http://www.bootytape.com ) has a huge amateur section. :)
I think this is a stunt by the US government in attempt to turn our heads away from what they had been doing. Unfortunately Obama has yet to do anything about it.
Isn’t porn illegal in South Korea? Or is just filming porn illegal there, but “downloading” is ok?
Anyway, Japanese porn is the best :D
i will never buy porn let alone korean porn. Downloading is far better cuz if i don’t like the performance of d bitches en hoes i just delete d whole fuckin movie. Period
What if one of the soon to be convicted happens to be a 10 year old?
65,000 seems to be a tiny number. I’m mean, even though 65,000 people uploaded port, WAY more than that download it so how is this going to help them?
someone explain to me…
how the heck do they get these peoples names??? Are these idiots using limewire or someother p2p software like that?
Surely this isn’t from torrents?
I don’t understand how people get caught!
Doesn’t surprise me. What does surprise me is how many people download this crap.
Porn is shit; it’s fake, acted, superficial, exaggerated and boring. It’s a total waste of bandwidth as far as I’m concerned.
joe, your ip address is visible with bittorrent too. i can’t understand people who think they are untouchable just because they use bittorrent, like it was a protective shield or i donno…
oh and i forgot to mention that bittorrent is p2p too.
bloody stupid. You have any idea how long it would take to litigate 65000 infringement case? You’d have to hear nothing but porn cases for years…What judge is going to want to hear about every sex position known to man for the rest of his career. We have already seen the extent of your evidence gathering abilities and the lack of knowledge you possess on the technology involved…. I’d love to see them take it to the US government….lol….talk about political suicide being known as the guy that picked up the porn industries interest on copyright infringement…lmao
@28
Try watching Japanese porn, you’ll see the difference. Even the weirdest fetishes are present, things you even never imagined could be done.
I agree that western porn is dumb and crap, it’s always the same thing, fake… Japanese porn on the other end, most of it is censored (unless it’s studio that exports outside of Japan) so they focus on the stories and such even more.
Can’t change what the internet is for.
That’s right put them all in the concentration camps.
Porn studio set to fail 65,000 times.
Say what?
I thought 80% of porn revenue these days where from the internet (and just under 20% was from pay-per-view).
The largest proportion of there sales come from memberships on there site-clusters – memberships people only get after they know that the site has what it wants to offer.
In otherwords, there’s no better advertising for the porn industry like lo-res samples of one of there many films.
That’s why Brazzers went from being a mediocre porn site, to the world biggest, thanks to pornhub.com
So surely, all these Koreans looking at your shit is only going to increase the numbers of paying customers?
I would rather be a billionaire, with 90% of my product illegally sold, than be broke with no one seeing my shit.
TBH, they are just greedy.
viktor, an IP address alone doesn’t many anything at all: FWIW, they could also have analyzed the log files of their web servers to get IP addresses en masse. Or they could simply have picked up random IP addresses from the well-known Korean netblocks, and sued indiscriminately in a scatter-like way, in the hope to get one hit per 1,000 victims.
BTW, an IP address is no proof of copyright infrigement yet, for many reasons:
* Even finding the incriminating material on the computers is no proof, because that doesn’t necessarily mean that the files have been uploaded (downloading isn’t illegal, IMHO).
* Being part of a BitTorrent swarm alone is no proof either: I could register with a tracker, yet never upload anything, or only upload random data.
* Uploading a chunk to an agent of the copyright owner (e.g. some pi, media sentry or similar outfits) could be a weak proof, but that’s not an independent witness.
Short of uploading infringing chunks directly to an official agency that is recognized by the judicial system as independent witness (police, …), it is very difficult to prove that a bittorrent client is infringing copyright…
… unless they have a global surveillance infrastructure in the Korean backbones; which is probably not the case (yet).
“The threat now is that if the local Korean authorities fails to act in a way that pleases the porn producers, they will take their case directly to the US government instead.”
Yes, because elected officials are just so-o-o anxious to be seen as friends of the pornography industry. :P
The porn moguls who reap billions off the abuse and debasement of others (I’m not anti-porn, just calling a spade a spade)can cry like little girls all they want but at the end of the day most view their plight as akin to someone stealing a bag of weed from a drug dealer. Who are they going to complain to that actually gives a $hit?
All someone has to bring up in court is the massive amount of legally free porn on the internet that’s been available and widely-accessible since 1995, and then point out the fact that the Pornography industry is still an economic powerhouse.
Lets see them track people who upload to DDL hosts… rapidshare now refuse to give info :)
and well they can only track you through public trackers… and fuck them
Porn itself looks like not ethical business for many.
These mass attacks against sharing on Internet starting response waves on political level. Citizens pushing politicians into parlaments to change the laws that non-commercial sharing is legal.
Porn releasers must start to get used to this new world, and adjust old business models accordingly, instead of trying to adjust the Internet.
Voters decide what is legal whats not, and countries can have different legal systems on this political matter. If majority thinks no-profit sharing for any information must be legal, period. Do not release, then nobody will have that. Otherwise count in your business plan, that bits will be shared.
I am in a sales business, in the middle of supply chain, and Internet with direct sales is now killing 95% of my possible profits. So what? Time to change business, not fight against the Internet.
The Adult industry failed years ago. No one pays for porn anymore, it’s all about the advertising.
With North Korea rattling its saber more than usual these days, and most of the US’S military in the middle east, Can the south Korean government afford to lock up 10k or 65k or whatever potential soldiers?
Jesus fucking christ, can’t they just concentrate on something worth concentrating on?
Like earning more capital then to waste more resources catching these pirates.
Seems to me they are almost out of ideas.
Seems like a Scare campaign to me, very blatant scare campaign.
No one person (or group of people, be they 1/2 or even 3/4 of the number of accused) can go after 60,000 people! Its impossible, and to expect jail time for each? (or even see if they will press charges, 60,000 people to prosecute takes alot of man-hours, and ironically, plenty of money)
I doubt they have lost, if any money since the Internet, or BT became popular.
Warner Bros. seems to be having a Record-Breaking, opening season some 7.07bil since May 01, 2009, but then again, Piracy is bad Kids heh
@41
Rattling their Saber? Pun? =O
Asian porn FTW !!
*the one eyed snake sheds a tear*
so – what is the korean site i should go to?
only 10 were went after because it’s not worth filing copyright infringement on porn.
I got one after sharing a material in Empornium. They tracked my IP and local authorities send some letter requiring a $600 fine. Court waits me in 2 weeks.
I make my own pr0n starring me and my slutty tube socks
This is why sites like Redtube and Youporn succeed.
Oh poor them!
Fancy upstanding pillars of society in the porn industry should be exploited in this way! What a disgrace!
I’m sure they’ve done nothing but good throughout their careers, including the wonders they are performing for gender equality and morality in society.
No expenses must be spared to support their righteous claim!
This menace must be stopped at all costs! Call the “Department of Homeland” ! Call NATO, Call the MAFIIA!
@41 Fionn256
You are a muppet! What does North Korea have to do with this? Nothing!
It is not a threat to anybody apart from possibly its’ own citizens. Anything else is American propaganda.
Check the EXTREMELY strategic position of North Korea (next to Russia’s Pacific fleet and next to China and Japan) and you’ll see why the US’ cares.
Plus the North Koreans aren’t buying as much Coca Cola, Mc Donald’s and Starbucks as they ought to.
North Korea ought to improve it’s internal human rights situation and make sure that all citizens are properly fed. But they are FAR from the only country who has problems on this front.
Americans are usuaslly nice, but the foreign policy of their country STINKS! There is nothing more hippocritical.
Fail. Epicly.
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ha. I dont do porn that much but if I do its everywhere so I rarely use bt for porn. much safer alternatives out there
but jus wanna say im glad I dont watch korean porn
Ha! Show me one court system anywhere in the world that isn’t already so clogged with cases that they’re willing to add another 65,000 cases into the system. Never happen. The porn industry can suck a fat one.
“The threat now is that if the local Korean authorities fails to act in a way that pleases the porn producers, they will take their case directly to the US government instead.” – What the FUCK?
The internet is for porn, now quit your fucking whining bitches!
The internet is for porn, now quit your fking whining bitches!
That is some funny shit!
so billy bob what ya get extradited for
A pair a tits
“around 100,000 individuals who downloaded the adult movies”
ROFL, let this bastards go after everyone who download porn… its a big waste of time, and money.
In deed i’m sure they have really lost more money in legal sue, then with file sharing.
Everyone has the right to protect their interests. Everyone has the right to profit from their work. Even if it’s a porn producer.
Wake up people.
No more porn IS the end of the internet!
Although I didn’t locate the actual report that said the internet is for porn (its out there somewhere) , this should help. “The Internet was completely funded by porn,” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10952475/
To sue for the most prolific item on the internet is nonsense. Might as well just take the net down instead of doing virtually nothing to stop porn.
“The porn industry faces at least as much online piracy as Hollywood, said Dusty Lillo, a spokesman for the company. But for companies like Naughty America, pirated half-hour movies mean more viewers — and more viewers means more potential customers. It’s a dynamic that doesn’t work as well for a Hollywood studio that may have its fortunes for the year tied up in one or two $100 million blockbuster films.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10952475/
The people suing those for porn are dushbags who have not obviously been informed.
what thouse
Check the digg comments, some morons think you stole the story from freakbits, i.e. from yourself. The sheer idiocy…
I say fuck ´em exactly the way they fuck in the movies…haha
wow, don’t they break rules when tracking peoples activity in first place?
Sunny @
http://www.torrentkit.com
Profit is good, Profiteering is not and the greedy bastards should jump from some bridge somewhere and spare the human race from their crap.
I think is time to lobby governments everywhere to make it illegal to try and collect from people who don’t use IP material in a commercial manner.
If we can’t change the actual laws we can complement them drawing clear lines between non commercial uses and commercial uses.
Omg that’s what I call pimpin’.
“Protecting their b*tches !”
gotta be a big perv to actually PAY for porn
who’s gonna pay for porn? lame.
Maybe they should better focus on making quality stuff? Mainstream pr0n is extremely repetitive and unbearably boring nowadays. All those tattooed whores look like total crap.
Most good videos are homemade now. Or made by small teams.
Again with the “it’s bad so we pirate it arguement.” If it was bad, then why would people want it, pirated or legally bought?
65,000 uploaders? They should have used a database with 32-bit integers.
Actually, the DA *did* try to file all 65,000 cases. But the Court’s calendar crashed after 2038.
porn was fun to watch and ”interact” with when i was 13 years old. now im older and have not become a perv, oh and i have a girlfriend nowadays, i find the stuff to be pretty boring and uninspired.
good luck litigating against 65,000
people, some of them probibly not older then 13.
funny how the spammers come out and post comments for an article about porn.
@81 millionaire-fuck off with your get rich quick con game.
@72 kssf- fuck off with your lose weight scams.
wheres the moderation torrentfreak?
Protect intellectual property! Think of the pr0nstars… Think of the pr0nstudios… PiRACY IS THEFT!
IFPI. International Federation of Pornographic Industry. Don’t warez that *XViD-Pr0nstars.torrent!
“Today, we are declaring war on software piracy… At home or abroad, intellectual property must be protected.”
-Vice President Al Gore, October 1, 1998
“Today, we are declaring war on pornography piracy… At home or abroad, intellectual property must be protected.”
-President Barack Obama, October 1, 2009
Big mistake doing this
If sports are declared legal to pirate, isn’t sex a sport?
http://www.p2pforums.com
Streaming and BitTorrent Sports Links Site Declared Legal
protecting porno copyright would make law enforcement look like asses, hence they ignored it for the most part.
BOOBIESS!!!! BOOBIES ON DA INTERWEBZ!!!
porn industry is big they’ll rape teh police in no time.
happy days ahead
This is good, the porn industry sides with the RIAA and it makes them more laughable, the RIAA won’t want them on their side and then it is a case of selective enforcement, yay porn!
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