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I can't remember Evan and I agreeing on much of anything. I haven't been a fan of some of his business, umm, "concepts" in the past, so we aren't exactly on the same page.
To an extent, the idea of legal action in this particular case is good. Exclusivity of license is an important issue, and rights holders need to agressively and jealously protect those rights.
However, specifically in the case of Mr Skin, well, I am not seeing the same application here. Mostly for the reasons that all of Mr Skin's content is lifted from other sources, and from companies with MUCH deeper pockets and stars to protect. However, judging from the specific lack of action on the behlf of the studios to get their copyrighted material removed suggests to me that there is a reason, maybe a legal angle that protects them.
I think all of the others look pretty cut and dry, if Xpays is the only license holder, and they have not granted a license to anyone else (or have granted limited license that doesn't allow redistribution) than I think they are pretty much good to go.
Of course, they might also want to try to sue the usenet and every ISP and company that distributes it, because the hilton video is "out there".
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