Porn producers strike back at video pirates, filing 12 federal lawsuits in Sacramento

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Story : http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article209715004.html

Now that the courts and the nation have come to know Stormy Daniels, it may be time to become familiar with Strike 3 Holdings LLC, which bills itself as “the owner of award winning, critically acclaimed adult motion pictures” that draw 20 million visitors to its websites every month.

Strike 3 Holdings also is a victim of widespread copyright infringement, the company alleges, and on Monday filed a dozen lawsuits in federal court in Sacramento seeking damages against individuals in Citrus Heights, Carmichael and other areas in the region, part of a nationwide legal fight involving hundreds of lawsuits nationwide.

The lawsuits target “John Doe” internet subscribers identified only by their internet protocol addresses and seek penalties against individuals suspected of using a high-tech downloading system known as “BitTorrent” to connect to other computers and “simultaneously download and upload piece of the file from and to other users.”

“Defendant is, in a word, stealing these works on a grand scale,” the lawsuits claim. “Using the BitTorrent protocol, defendant is committing rampant and wholesale copyright infringement by downloading Strike 3’s motion pictures as well as distributing them to others.”