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MetArt Sues MindGeek for Infringement - XBIZ.com

please do not settle with these scumbags Feras Antoon and hahahahahahaha Yousef.

It's Always Sunny in Miami. Would love to be there for the "discovery" phase when MetArt open MG like a can of worms.

This should prove interestin'... :)

100 infringements times $150k each ain't cheap

hope they open those books wide open for all to see :1orglaugh:thumbsup

And the plot thickens.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh - GFY members doing business with them can start shitting in pants now. So we have the Hydentra lawsuit and the investigation for money laundering going on. Not a good Q3 for MG I'd say.

Quite engaging.

is a lot of money :2 cents:

Why I am not surprised.

go get them MetArt

How did these suits fare?

Also what's the legal stance on DMCA law that the URLs Met-Art supplied were or were not on the premium site?

I hope Met-Art win or open the books to find a can of worms. Hopefully something that will get the tax people involved.

"Wissam" Yousef? - thought he was long gone:Oh crap

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Fucking cheese thieves.

a couple of years already, no idea why he shows back up here

As it turns out they were around the whole time and all the people who said the Mansef to Manwin thing was just a cover were pretty much spot on.

Imagine how differently things would have went for the paysite side of the industry if everyone did this circa 2008.

+1000 :thumbsup^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yeah, instead the industry joined in.
Weird. Like native Americans joining the US Cavalry as scouts back in the day.

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Originally Posted by manwin/mindgeek/corporate tube ass kissing apologist
this is obviously a misunderstanding; tubes have gone the legitimate route of licensing their own content nowadays.

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I hope MET ART realize they have the power to change the landscape in adult in a massively POSITIVE way.

There's a special place in Hell for everyone that continues to do business with upload tubes.

It's an adjoining room with Politicians next door.

And Dick Cheney stops by every Thursday evening to water board you.

MindGeek is a monster ...

People actually tried to get paysites to team up on something like this back then, only few were interested.

:2 cents:

well he is in lawsuit so guess not. :1orglaugh

I know. I remember watching it. I think that is where the inspiration for the movie "The Human Centipede" came from-- watching the Bros in the adult industry join their mouths to the asses of the tube owners.

Ok......

Finally a company with balls

So:

1. How many of those lawsuits mentioned in the XBiz article has Met-Art won?
2. How much $$$ has Met-Art made off these lawsuits?
3. Does Met-Art now make more $ filing lawsuits then it does selling monthly porn memberships?

Inquiring minds and all that. :)

I suspect the answer to the why didnt this happen years ago comes down to "timing is everything"

Things arent looking so great for MindGeek these days Im hearing Fabian is even sweating...he has burned through a lot of money to stay out of jail and his trial hasnt even started yet...now if the Feds get to him and HE starts talking a lot of the "bro club" is gonna be in deep shit.

anyone closely associated with Mansef/Manwin/MindGeek should be sweating big time because its coming...prolly not soon...certainly not soon enough but it IS coming.

and hot females! :thumbsup

100 may be on the low end dependent on how they do their copyrights. There's infringement on 500+ unique URLs, which could mean statutory damages on each URL.

That could potentially bring the amount to $75m.

so much money in the motion :winkwink:

I'm guessing the premium section is filled with misappropriated movies. Maybe time for programs to get their DMCA agents on it and make a list.
We are.

The lawsuit regards the sponsor content that Mindgeek put in a member's section, free of sponsor ads, and started to charge for without permission and in many cases were told specifically NOT to do.

A bunch of companies are pretty upset about it, us included. I know other companies are also planning on taking action.

Ironic isn't it, that the companies that supported them over the years are the ones getting fucked over and will now be the ones that actually take the legal actions everyone has begged for all these years; cue the Mike South "I told you so" he has waited years to tell me.

:upsidedow

Go ahead, guess I have it coming...

Now it makes sense, thank you

Man up and make it right. For your karma, eviscerate those pieces of thieving shit.
You will be loved, admired and respected and something tells me business will improve many times over for everyone.

Please coalesce the adult program owners who have been screwed into a group that changes our communally bleakish future in its present course. You have that power, Far-L.