Vivid Drops PornoTube Lawsuit Alleging Piracy
 

XBIZ REPORT: Vivid Entertainment Group on Monday dropped its lawsuit against AEBN that alleged company division PornoTube.com and parent company Data Conversions Inc. pirated its adult properties.

http://www.xbiz.com/news/100701

Collusion, I tell you!

cliff notes? why did they drop it

they can re file the case maybe the attorney saw something

maybe they will join them. Iv seen it happen, your not going to win so partner up with them.

where is gideon? lol

My thought exactly.

Just amazing if you ask me.......

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=791149

what the fuck

Like I said. This was all "Smoke and Mirrors" type shit.

Bronation. According to wikipedia, youporn and pornotube have the same ownership.....bronation....bronation......bronatio n...

Interesting turn of events. I wonder if Vivid will issue a press release on the matter.

I'm not surprised. Vivid never had a case and they knew it.

They only filed the suit in an attempt to scare PornoTube into complying, or force them to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars defending themselves.

But it didn't work, and it wasn't worth the cost for Vivid.

Plus another court dismissed the Io vs Veoh case a couple of months ago, and that was practically the same thing. Veoh was accused of having infringing porn, some of which had copyright notices in them.

The Court said:
-they have a DMCA policy and respond to notices
-they are not required to spot check videos, and if they do, it doesn't constitute "actual knowledge" of infringement
-they can feature some infringing videos on their homepage and it doesn't constitute "actual knowledge" of infringement
-they can deal with users who upload infringing content any way they want
-a copyright notice is meaningless - Veoh doesn't have to watch the video, and even if they did it would still be meaningless
-and nobody can figure out what is copyrighted vs what isn't anyways because some user submitted content can be professionally produced, and some copyrighted content can be deliberately filmed to look like amateur

I think that Vivid knew about this decision. It would have been an easy defence for PornoTube (and will be for any other Tube site).

Not surprised by this at all. And this is the lawsuit that Cambria called "ground breaking." If my sources are correct ... wait to you see who will be doing a seminar together ... very shortly...

I told ya guys when this happened Vivid would drop the situation then join them.

SHit like this is clear as day to me. SHouldnt be a surprise folks.

Sky is falling

beat me too it.

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