Im getting conflicting info on this but something for sure isnt passing the sniff test...heres my post on it from today
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MikeSouth.Com
No sooner had I announced that Hush Hush Entertainment was suing Manwin/MindGeek than I see AVN and XBiz runnind stories about MindGeek suing Xvideos. This raised a million red flags for me that apparently XBiz and AVN cant see, but lets look at it closely.
First if you read the Mindgeek lawsuit it reads almost identical to the one filed by Hush Hush Entertainment. I am not at all saying its the same, far from it. What I am saying is that MindGeek is alleging that Xvideos is doing EXACTLY the same thing that HHE alleges that MindGeek is doing. The first thing that popped into my mind is how could Mindgeek hope to prevail on both fronts.
Now here is the back story that you wont read on AVN or XBiz because they are completely in MindGeeks Pocket.
You see back in the days when Fabian was fronting for Manwin one of the targets that Manwin wanted badly was Xvideos.com, one of the few tubesites that was arguably larger than pornhub. Xvideos also owns xnxx.com yet another large tube site. When manwin tried to purchase them they were basically told to go away, not gonna happen.
Well that didnt stop Manwin, now Mindgeek from still coveting the sites and brands. A solid source inside MindGeek tells me that this lawsuit is a strongarm tactic to force xvideos to sell.
Another source tells me that the sale is already a done deal and that the lawsuit is a diversionary tactic to get a legal precedent that would help to shield MindGeek from future lawsuits like the ones filed by MetArt and HHE.
As I have pointed out these guys have found MindGeeks soft spot, that being a court ordered discovery in which Manwin is forced to open their financials to scrutiny, and even though MetArt claims otherwise Its pretty much a guarantee that MetArt was paid well to settle and I expect HHE has the same expectations, I will be surprised if Mindgeek doesn?t settle this one quietly but doing so is sending a message to everyone that MindGeek has stolen from and Mindgeeks worst nightmare is that they will line up around the corner with civil suits for copyright infringement. Watch this Xvideos lawsuit very carefully. I suspect it will tell us an awful lot about Mindgeek.
And for the record, I applaud HHE loudly?I dont care if they do settle it? every single dime taken back from Manwin/MindGeek is a win for the people they stole from I hope MindGeek ends up feeling like they are being pecked to death by ducks.
Thats my $0.02 on it.