from www.southfloridagaynews.com – Gay porn studio and distributor Corbin Fisher is ready to crack down on possibly tens of thousands of gay porn thieves.

“This company, like a lot of adult entertainment companies, is taking a pounding from online content theft,” said the General Counsel for Corbin Fisher, Marc Randazza [pictured].

He said the company has 40,000 IP addresses of users who have illegally downloaded the studio’s material.

Recently the company offered an amnesty deal for users that would exempt them from any lawsuits brought forth by the company. The deal consisted of a one-time fee of $1,000 and as a bonus they received a one-year subscription to their website. Only 20 people came forward to accept the deal. That amnesty deal has ended.

Now Randazza says he is willing to offer a second amnesty deal to SFGN readers for a one-time payment of $1,900. Those that come forward this time though will not receive a one-year subscription to their website.

Randazza said the company recently won a lawsuit against an illegal downloader that resulted in a $250,000 judgment in their favor.

“One of our DVDs sold 600 units, and on one website alone, it had been downloaded 11,000 times. Something had to be done about it,” he said.

Even so Randazza said his company doesn’t want to sue these individuals and that’s why the company offered the amnesty.

“We’re trying to be as fair as we can. That’s why we even initially offered a one-year membership to our site,” he said.

“We felt good to resolve it this way with those 20 individuals.”

Randazza said their upcoming lawsuit will focus heavily on the South Florida area.

“If I look at my chart South Florida has a pretty big red circle on it,” he said.

Since word of the lawsuit has spread Randazza said the pirating has gone down and their subscriptions to their website have gone up.

“I think the reaction, even from people stealing our materials, has been positive,” he said.

“A subscription to our website is really not a lot of money. We have some of the highest quality gay content you can find.”

Randazza then touted his company’s philanthropy and said they’re the largest donor to Equality Florida, the largest civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for Florida’s LGBT community.

But he also noted: “you can’t be all that charitable when you’re being robbed blind.”

Corbin Fisher has studios in Florida, Nevada and California.

Randazza said the new amnesty deal will last two weeks. E-mail [email protected] for more information.