The Pornographers Have Turned On the Pirates [Torrents]

Axel Braun , pornographic auteur, has filed a federal copyright suit against nearly 7,100 individuals. The offense? Sharing his Batman XXX: A Porn Parody via torrents. It’s basically a NSFW version of the summer’s Hurt Locker case .

The script is predicted to play out an analogous as a consequence as it did then : lawyers will gather the IP addresses of folks that shared the movie, subpoena those people’s ISPs for identifying information, then offer an out-of-court settlement that most will take. Actually, the only difference can result being the quality of the soundbites:

” F– ‘em all,” Braun told Xbiz . ” People don’t realize that after you pirate a movie it hurts the entire folks that work very hard to get it produced-from the forged to the production assistants to the makeup artists… So we are going after all and sundry of them who pirates our content.”

And honestly, it’s not surprising that pornographers would hunt down an analogous protections as Academy Award winners. Content is content, despite the nipple count.

What’s disappointing is that the customarily filmmakers turn to these sweeping shakedowns, the more legitimized it becomes as a controlling method. It didn’t work for the music industry inside the previous decade, and it hasn’t done anything to stem movie torrenting yet in this one. Maybe it’s time in finding a smarter way. [ CNET ]

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