Porn Companies Defending Their Copyrights Does Not Equal Extortion (YNOT)
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In late January, New Jersey–based news site NJ.com reported on what adult film companies Strike 3 Holdings and Malibu Media using what they call a “prolific litigation strategy” to go after people who illegally download their work. While porn companies say they sue “people in the Garden State and across the country simply to protect [their] copyrighted content,” wrote Rebecca Everett, “Opponents say it’s a shakedown scheme.”
These two companies, each of whom own high-end adult membership sites (Strike 3 is the parent company for Greg Lansky’s award-winning sites Blacked, Tushy, and Vixen), have between them filed lawsuits against nearly 10,000 individuals nationwide since 2014, according to NJ.com. The suits are leveled at individuals suspected of downloading their films illegally using BitTorrent, a file-sharing platform that allows users to anonymously share files… many files.
