Porn Industry Targets 16,827 BitTorrent Users and Counting

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Adult Copyright Company files copyright infringement complaint against another 9,729 BitTorrent users, the largest John Doe mass lawsuit ever, and brings its grand total to 16,827 and counting.
The music industry’s now defunct “sue-em-all” campaign is beginning to pale in comparison to the exploits of the AdultCopyrightCompany as it targets suspected file-sharers by the thousands.

Yesterday, on behalf of West Coast Productions, the AdultCopyrightCompany filed a copyright infringement complaint against another 9,729 John Does, the largest ever of its kind, bringing the total number of accused file-sharers caught up in its mass lawsuit campaign alone to 16,827 and counting.

The AdultCopyrightCompany previously targeted 7,098 back on October 29th.

It’s by far the most aggressive anti-P2P campaign thus far, nearly surpassing the 18,000 the RIAA targeted, though that was over the course of 5 years, not days or weeks.

The best part is the warning they make to settle as soon as possible as well as the admission that others besides yourself may be responsible.

The suit against the 7,098 John Does occurred a mere days after a number of porn studios got together for an event dubbed the “Content Protection Retreat” (CPR) in which they tried to figure out how to turn the rising tide of piracy that has placed its business at greater risk than others because its income is derived mainly from individual sales that occur in the privacy of one’s home.

They said they find themselves “battling a consumer mindset that adult content is something one should not have to pay for” and have been “scrambling to prevent further infringement on their intellectual property rights.”

The goal of CPR was to “drastically reduce the piracy of adult content by 2012” and this effort by the AdultCopyrightCompany is likely a part of those efforts.

They might be able to extract settlement payments from a thousand, or even tens of thousands of people, but in the end technology will prevail as it always has. Even if the porn industry was to somehow put a dent in illegal file-sharing of copyrighted porn titles it’ll never be able to eliminate sites that stream copies of the same content.

The game of whac-a-mole continues.