53 gay porn pirates face new round of P2P lawsuits
t’s not just the game plan of the RIAA and the new US Copyright Group—numerous rightsholders have resorted to mass federal lawsuits against P2P users, including those in the gay porn industry. On Monday, Lucas Entertainment filed its first such lawsuit targeting 53 BitTorrent users alleged to have shared its pornographic film Kings of New York.
The complaint is brief. Lucas says nothing about why it thinks that these users downloaded its film except to note that “monitoring of online infringement of Plaintiff’s motion picture is ongoing.” Instead, it has simply presented the judge with a list of 53 IP addresses, all of which are said to have visited gay-torrents.net (“a private website known for its vast index of videos depicting gay pornography”) and then shared the film in question.