After taking a loss of more than $29 million to copyright infringement over the past six years and $8 million in legal fees, the owner of Perfect 10, Inc., Norman Zada, is waging a war against the two largest and most successful credit card companies in the world.
Zada filed papers in the U.S. District Court for Northern California this week against Visa International, First Data Corp., Cardservice International, MasterCard International, and Humboldt Bank.
Perfect 10 gained industry notoriety for its 2002 court injunction against Cybernet Ventures, Inc., the owners of Adult Verification Service Adult Check, for featuring more than 10,000 copyrighted Perfect 10 images in the Adult Check family of websites. And while Perfect 10 won the suit for an undisclosed amount of money, admittedly, it was only the tip of the iceberg.
Zada's complaint against the two credit card behemoths and the banks that process their transactions is that they are facilitating and profiting from the illegal use of copyrighted material on adult entertainment websites. The complaint states that Visa and MasterCard have made large sums of money from the sale of pirated adult content and should be held liable for any related copyright violation.
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