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Emre Temiz from Turkey is the biggest scumbag. I shut down one of his tubes so far and getting ready to shut down his new one. He's a rat who lives in a cave and can only survive off stealing content. I call theses guys "Click Monkeys" because their only skill is "click-download, click-upload".
These sites were warned many times to stop posting my videos but they ignored all the legal warnings. Most of them relied heavily on my videos so they figured if they stopped posting my videos then their sites would be dead anyway so they didn't have anything to lose. Pornez.net had 280K stolen videos posted. The lawsuit prevents Registrars from notifying the tube owners about the legal action as well as preventing them from redirecting the traffic or transferring the domains.
A few tubes took my videos down but it was too late and the Judge suspected that they would just wait for the dust to settle and put them back up so he awarded me the TRO. Too little, too late!
Tubes might have servers outside US copyright jurisdiction but the domains can be shut down. Registrars don't want to be involved in copyright lawsuits because Judges are awarding producers $15K per video which adds up pretty quick. All the big Registrars have agreed to cooperate as long as we didn't include them in the lawsuits.
The important part is to register all your videos with the US Copyright Office. It's easy and you can submit the videos online. You pay $65/video and upload a very small version of the video. You get copyright protection right away.
Using a service like DMCA Force helps a lot because they keep accurate records of all the take-down notices sent. Any tube that doesn't comply can be shut down.
We're working on a new batch of tubes so I'll keep you guys posted on the progress.
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