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He now admits that he and co-defendant Paul Hansmeier set up an elaborate 'honeypot' operation by buying up the copyright to porn videos in the name of various shell companies - and then uploading the videos to torrent sites themselves.
When they couldn't find enough copyrights to buy, they even made their own porn videos and uploaded them, he admits.
The pair then persuaded the courts to allow them to subpoena internet service providers and identify the IP addresses from which the porn videos had been downloaded.
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