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Earlier this week Jizz.com was hit with a $100M lawsuit filed against them by Zero Tolerance. The suit, filed by attorney Chad Belville at U.S. District Court in Phoenix, claims more than 1,000 infringing acts against Zero Tolerance, along with sister companies Black Ice and Third Degree Films.
If you were keeping score, it was the fourth multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed against the company and operator Igor Gens, who also is owner and operator of Vancouver, B.C.-based IG Media, also named as a defendant in the suit.
YouJizz and Gens last year was sued by Private Media Group in two similar tube site copyright suits, but those cases were eventually settled out of court.
And just last month Kink.com sued YouJizz and Gens over the alleged infringement of 420 videos. That suit seeks $63 million in damages.
Not content with that, Gens and YouJizz made it five when Pink Visual slapped a suit that included them along with the operators of HiSlut.com, MyHotBook.com, TheHotLoop.com, Slutload.com and HardSexTube.com.
Pink Visual claims the defendants have been “reverse palming off” its library of porn.
According to a story on www.xbiz.com, Pink Visual said that it has identified 89 copyrighted movies that have been rebranded and streamed illegally on tube sites. The suit seeks at least $13.35 million in damages, as well as restraining orders on alleged illegal practices by the operators of the sites.
The Pink Visual suit claims, in an act of blatant piracy, that the companies engaged in a pattern of removing [Pink Visual’s] watermark and trademark from its copyrighted motion pictures and replacing them with defendant’s watermarks and trademarks.
The suit said Slutload.com, HardSexTube.com and YouJizz.com distributed the misbranded content over the Internet through their respective tube sites.
The suit, filed last month at U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, named only one defendant by name — HardSexTube’s operator, Szent Laszlo of Budapest. The others are named as John Doe defendants.
It’s Pink Visual’s second run in with Slutload, which last year settled with the company over allegedly infringing 53 of its films. Settlement’s terms of that suit were not disclosed, with the exception that Slutload agreed to adopt and employ digital fingerprint filtering technology offered through the Free Speech Coalition’s Anti-piracy Action Plan. Slutload later was sold to Reality Kings.
Pink Visual said that it regularly monitors the web for infringement and misuse of its trademark, typically sending cease-and-desist and DMCA notices of copyright infringement to pirates. It also said that it employs copyright filtering software offered by Vobile Inc.