CF Torrent/HotFile Sharers

I saw this and thought people might like to know.


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Corbin Fisher: Torrent Thieves Can Settle for $1000 Until Feb. 8
Those who refuse the offer to ‘admit their mistakes and move on’ will be liable for up to $150,000 in damages for each infringement
Jan 26th, 2011 02:21 PM

SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Liberty Media Holdings, parent company of online gay adult content provider Corbin Fisher, issued a statement Wednesday saying it is offering a limited-time amnesty to torrent users who have shared its content. In 2010, the company says it won millions of dollars in court judgments, including a recent $250,000 judgment against a single torrent user. The company also announced that it is about to launch a new wave of anti-piracy lawsuits, targeting torrent users.
“Despite the fact that these people are stealing from us, we wanted to give them a chance to admit their mistakes and move on,” said Corbin Fisher’s COO Brian Dunlap. “Therefore, we are offering this limited period where we will resolve these cases quickly and cheaply.”
Any individual who has been illegally uploading, downloading or torrent-sharing Corbin Fisher material can come forward in the 14-day grace period (beginning January 25, 2011 and ending February 8, 2011) and settle the claims against them for a one-time payment of $1,000. All those settling will be given a year's membership at Corbin Fisher's premier online adult content sites (AmateurCollegeMen.com and AmateurCollegeSex.com).
Those who participate in this offer must commit to ending their days of piracy. For their commitment to helping Corbin Fisher stamp out online piracy, participants will be immune to any legal action for content infringement that occurred before the date of their settlement. Torrent users not taking advantage of the amnesty period will be liable for up to $150,000 in damages for each infringement.
A list of thousands of torrent users has already been provided to Corbin Fisher by an independent research group, and all of these users will be targeted in the first wave of lawsuits to be filed in February. Anyone who has shared Corbin Fisher content via a torrent site is encouraged to contact the company immediately.


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Here's the Hotfile article:
http://anonym.to/?http://newswire.xbiz.com/view.php?id=129652

Kai... he has 5 posts. He's probably a newbie... lighten up a little, won't ya, buddy?

yeah sorry...my bad. Just im sure even how to do that. I will be mindful next time. Just some very pertinent information that I came across that I really felt needed to be shared.

:nail biting:

I dunno, sounds pretty serious. They are even fighting HOTFILE.

Its basically the same thing when you confess your sins to a priest, you get so much freebies

We should have more megaupload links.

SAN DIEGO, Calif.—In September of last year, Liberty Media Holdings, parent company of online gay adult content provider Corbin Fisher, successfully shut down pornilove.....com, a gay content pirate site that at the time CEO Jason Gibson explained operated its “theft scam” in coordination with Hotfile.....com, a free file hosting and sharing service. Liberty has now filed suit in an action that characterizes Hotfile......com and other defendants as “a confederation of intellectual property thieves.”


Corbin Fisher general counsel Marc Randazza filed the lawsuit Jan. 6 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, naming Hotfile, Anton Titov, Lemuria Communications, PayPal and 1-1000 John Does as defendants. According to the 27-page complaint, Titov is an “alter ego of Defendant Hotfile” and also “the sole owner of the stock of Defendants Hotfile and Lemuria,” the latter of which is described as “the alter ego of Defendant Titiv,” and a “Florida corporation that provides hosting services to Defendant Hotfile......com to facilitate mass copyright infringement.”

The John Doe defendants, unknown at the time of the filing, according to the complaint, posted Liberty’s “copyrighted works on Defendant Hotfile’s website and/or on Defendant Lemuria’s servers.

PayPal, a defendant that is pointedly not included in the “confederation of intellectual property thieves,” seems to be added as a defendant because it allegedly has the “care, custody and control of multiple bank accounts owned by various defendants.” The complaint requests that the court order PayPal to freeze all assets and funds in any accounts belonging to the defendants pending the outcome of the case.

More generally, the complaint alleges a vast conspiracy on the part of all of the defendants, excluding PayPal, to use a warped business model built on a potentially legitimate platform.

“Defendant Hotfile......com, like Grokster before it, has a theoretically legitimate use. Certainly there are large files that users might want to share with other users with no illegal content. Defendant Hotfile’s practical and overwhelmingly popular application, however, is singular and transparent: To profit from the illegal sharing of copyrighted materials, many of which are the intellectual property of Liberty.” The suit alleges 800 known instances of Corbin Fisher content illegally uploaded to Hotfile.com.

The complaint also alleges that the Hotfile business model, which it calls a “pyramid,” encourages and abets copyright infringement.

“Defendant Hotfile.com’s financial model works in this manner: a user uploading a file to Defendant Hotfile.com receives a ‘referral fee’ if another, separate user signs up for Defendant Hotfile.com’s premium download service as a result of seeing the newly uploaded file. Defendant Hofile.com receives revenue from members paying for the ‘premium membership package.’”

The plaintiff also states that Hotfile......com is not allowed the protection of safe harbor provisions provided by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) because, “During the times relevant to this Complaint, Defendant Hotfile.....com failed and refused to register a DMCA agent in the United States Copyright Office.”

In addition to injunctive and declaratory relief, Liberty is asking the court to freeze all domains owned and operated by the defendants—excluding PayPal—and all assets and funds in their PayPal accounts, a full audit of amounts owed the plaintiff, reasonable attorneys fees and statutory damages of $150,000 per infringed work. It also wants the court to issue an order “finding all the Defendants were involved in a civil conspiracy to commit the aforementioned wrongful acts and are therefore all jointly and severally liable for all of the co-conspirators’ acts.”

Multiplying the 800 acts of infringement by $150,000 comes to $120,000,000.

Corbin Fisher attorney Marc Randazza declined to be interviewed for this article. AVN is attempting to contact the defendants or their attorneys.


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hmmmmmm

(If I Post a file to hotfile how do they know that its not for personal use or to share)

I dont really like there stuff nowadays so i dont share there files at all

I wonder how many people will end up getting hit with lawsuits?

i know i was kinda wondering the same thing, ahd how many people actually took the amnesty offer their lawyers provided. The amnesty thing sounds a little strange to me.

gcboy78 said:

i know i was kinda wondering the same thing, ahd how many people actually took the amnesty offer their lawyers provided. The amnesty thing sounds a little strange to me.

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In more than a few US states, these flat-sum cash demands to prevent litigation would land the lawyers in jail for criminal extortion. They're very carefully bringing these suits only in US states where they can get away with it.

Several mainstream Hollywood film studios have issued strict orders from the executive suites not to pursue these kinds of extortive lawsuits. That's because studio VIPs have heard from a high-placed confidential source that the Justice Department is investigating these lawyers and that they may face federal criminal prosecution in the near future.

Well they are doing a second round of amnesty pleas. And I read somewhere where they said they have 30k IP addresses that they will be suing. Will they really be able to do that. That would be a big chunk that has downloaded any of their movies.