Court Awards Aylo $4.2 Million, Not $84 Million, in Pornhits Piracy Case

Aylo asked a Washington federal court for an $84 million default judgment against the operator of pirate site Pornhits, citing the same $15,000-per-work formula the court had previously approved in similar cases. This time, Judge Benjamin Settle denied the request, awarding the statutory minimum instead, while warning that anything more would be a "windfall." The porn company did secure a domain transfer order, however, which may be the most important of all.