recently, Two Arizona-based companies sued, The aim is to prevent pirate sites from spreading their content. The case itself is not unusual, But the implications are profound.

CP Production company (Hereafter called CP) Founded in 2005 years, Produce adult entertainment media, And use their own website to spread the word. Fornix holding (Hereafter called Fornix) Be for CP Companies dealing with intellectual property issues, So far it's registered with the United States Copyright Office 157 A video.

The owner of both companies is David from Arizona．Graves (David Graves) , He seems to be in charge of everything from production to anti-piracy.

11 month 15 day, Fornix and CP The U. S. District Court for the District of Arizona unilaterally filed for a temporary restraining order and a temporary injunction. The aim is to quickly shut down several piracy sites. On these websites, CP Was illegally provided for free.

Piracy is a widespread problem in America, It affects thousands of content production companies. What stands out about this case is the far-reaching demands made in a very short period of time. The court's approval of tough anti-piracy measures within days is also noteworthy, Especially given some of the unusual features of this case.

A statement in support of the temporary restraining order

The core of the petition for a temporary restraining order is simple. Graves said in a statement, DaftSex. com The website is linked 1734 a CP A pirated copy of the video. The other two domains daftsex. tv and daftsex. porn Be directed to DaftSex. com.

Another website Pornwild. com in 2022 years 5 Available from around January CP Video of, It was also provided without permission. Graves said, The website is linked 1339 Infringement video, And the other two websites Pornwild. to and Pornwild-to. nicepornproxy. com Be directed to Pornwild. com.

Graves spoke to a content monitoring company DaftSex. com The email address provided on the website was sent 1700 Multiple takedown notices, But the email has now disappeared. Send to Pornwild. com the 1600 An email was sent to the domain name WHOIS Listed in the record withheldforprivacy. com address. Graves said, No response was received from these sites.

Apply for a provisional injunction／Preliminary injunction

Fornix and CP In their initial statement, Due to DaftSex. com and Pornwild. com The operators of the company hide their identity, They are listed in the application Doe #1 and Doe #2.

To overcome the identity problem, The applicant will EasyDNS, Namecheap and Cloudflare Be named as a defendant. Thanks to Google "Provide search service, The defendant's website came up in some searches" , So Google is also named as a defendant.

Fornix and CP right DaftSex and Pornwild A temporary restraining order was filed in 11 month 15 Daily submission.

Applicant asks for more

In order to prevent DaftSex and PornWild The operator of the company is aware of the case, Fornix and CP accusatory "Willful and persistent infringement" Unilateral request for restraining order. Their demands include:

－Deactivation and cancellation DaftSex and Pornwild Domain name, And prevent re-registration;

－Shut down daftsex. com, daftsex. tv, daftsex. porn, pornwild. com, pornwild. to and pornwild-to. nicepornproxy. com And remove all copies of infringing works;

－delete DaftSex and Pornwild Copies of all Plaintiff's works uploaded to third party websites;

－Stopping direction DaftSex and PornWild All Internet services are available, Including domain name registration, trusteeship, Security service, Content transport and reverse proxy services;

－Forcing Google to remove all of them from search results DaftSex and Pornwild website.

Before the applicant 11 month 15 Date after submitting the application, Diane．Humetewa (Diane J humetwa) The judge ordered 11 month 17 A telephone hearing will be held on Sunday. It is reported that, The subpoena was sent to the cloud service platform Cloudflare the EasyDNS, Google and NameCheap. But the hearing was later rescheduled to be in 11 month 21 Hold on a daily basis.

Google Presence, Start of rejection

A copy dated 11 month 18 The day's records show, Fornix and CP Voluntarily withdrew the right EasyDNS prosecute. To learn more about this fast-moving case, TorrentFreak The website has contacted EasyDNS And raised some questions. EasyDNS CEO Mark．Jeftovich (Mark Jeftovic) According to, He knows nothing about it.

Jeftovich said: "We have never received any documents related to this case. Your email is the first I've heard of this. "

After checking their system, EasyDNS I did manage to find out some information about it. One piece of material is a copyright removal request sent to the customer. The other material includes a copy from Veriscredit (Verisign) Notice of, In order to comply DaftSex injunction, A domain name is transferred to the domain registrar EuroDNS On the registration label.

Jeftovich explained: " (Third material) is 5 An E-mail from some lawyers the other day, Ask if we'll attend the hearing, I received it on the day of the hearing. replied our agent, 'What do we have to do with this? ' But we never heard back. "

Jeftovich then EasyDNS The removal from the case raises a theory. He said: "I guess Google, Namecheap or Cloudflare One of them did attend the hearing, Point out the regulation 230 Or other safe harbor provisions, Get all ISPs out of the dock. "

Coincidence or not, in 11 month 18 day, A Google representative showed up. The next day, Namecheap, Cloudflare And Google out of the dock.

Temporary restraining order granted

After the telephone hearing, Judge Humetwa granted the plaintiff's request for a temporary restraining order, The details are as follows:

"The plaintiff was not required to post bail. The defendant must disable the infringing domain name, Suspend service for these infringing domain names and prevent transfer. Google should do so if necessary, Remove infringing domain names from search results. "

The preliminary injunction will be dealt with separately. (Compiled from torrentfreak. com)

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