Porn Downloaders Are Suing Porn Producers for Allegedly Shaming Settlement Money Out of Them
LatestPorn producers have been capitalizing on American prudishness in a big way by obliquely threatening, i.e. through lawsuits, to erase the very discretion that is internet porn’s solemn promise for viewers who illegally download videos. These furtive porn consumers, however, have had enough, and now a Kentucky federal court suit accusing several porn producers of racketeering, fraud, defamation, and other such extortionist dealings has been filed on behalf of a Kentucky woman named Jennifer Barker.
The suit comes just a week after a judge characterized a BitTorrent lawsuit filed by Malibu Media “an extortion scheme.” Barker alleges that a representative from Intellectual Property Protection (a company named in the suit as working for porn studios) called her at work and at her home, demanding a legal settlement (cash money) for the porn (produced by Malibu Media) she allegedly illegally downloaded (Barker has denied illegally downloading anything). According to Wired, which has been keeping tabs on the porn industry’s seemingly extortionist strategy for combating piracy, Intellectual Property Protection threatened to publicly identify Barker as a furtive porn watcher, banking on the fact that this would be such a grievous humiliation that she’d just ante up the settlement money and go back to quietly fingerblasting herself while she watched however many pairs of shaved genitals mash tastefully against each other. The federal suit claims that IPP,