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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
I do not think that the guys he is suing were running these sites where the photographer's content was illegally re-posted. If I understand correctly, these are American individuals simply re-posting the photographer's content on a surfer forum or forums to 'share" with their friends. That's what makes these settlements even more amazing in my opinion. Imagine being able to track down and sue some of the individual posters on a site like pornbb. A lot of them will be Americans with a job, maybe a wife and some assets, and many of them will have no idea that someone would or could come after them just for re-posting their content on a public or semi-private surfer forum.
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Jim, thats exactly right.
The site / domain owner was American in Ohio. Hew as hosting, paying for hosting in Turkey, etc.
He is liable for what he was doing, but we also knew he was a broke dick. Bankrupcy in 1999, investigators found late payment notices in his trash for mortgage and just in March Bank One sued him for not paying credit cards.
Going after him was done to get the data he had. He knew the REAL NAMES and addresses of t-shirt buyers / donators, and of course had the forum and all the logs that go with it - IPs, email addresses, etc.
That data is the most valuable thing. Its super easy to cross reference the IP in CCBill database for paying member with the IP in the forum database for the person posting what he just downloaded.
That is why we have three settlements, and will have more. They know we have them rock solid. They don't want the wife or boss to know. One guy IS A CONTENT PRODUCER of sorts -- he works at a Hollywood production company that makes movie commercials, like seen at start of a DVD. The IP address he was posting my stuff from was from their network --
Do you think he wanted to lose his job for viewing my site, then posting the content, from their office?
You would be surprised -- One of the guys on our list is a rel estate guy from Boston area and owns at least 11 houses and two apartment buildings.
He has enough to pay, and certainly would prefer to pay as opposed to going to court for pretty girl photos.