i guess known of you guys been sued, i get sued 3 to 5 times a year, The judge always ask can things be workout before going into a trial. then if this cant be work out, then it might go to trail. which might take another 3 to 6 months

Nice, I still say - some of us may be too small to file lawsuits, but we can help the tube situation by just refusing to do business with anyone who allows their ads to be shown on an illegal tube site.

I wonder how far the rabbit hole goes for Bright Imperial - exactly how many shell companies and peripheral parties exist, shielding the true owner(s).

$40 million. That's a lot of money.
The lawsuit, which was filed earlier this year, claims that RedTube has unlawfully offered free movies as loss leaders in an attempt to crush its competition and seeks to have RedTube shut down.

1. This will fail, garentie
2. Host and sponsors are far from being liable
3. Most importantly, its a us class action suit or w./e means shit to everyone out side of the us

Interesting news

who won? who lost?

one thing is for certain many more tubes will pop up in it's place....

Who or what is garentie? I guarantee I have never heard that word before.

:2 cents:

We need a complete list :thumbsup

Stop playing the english teacher and try responding to the actual points he made.

So what was the result of this? Moving forward or not?

Like somebody said before, I doubt anything was settled in the first hearing. It's a 40 million dollar case apparently, this thing could take time.

:1orglaugh

If giving away free video becomes a crime we're all in for a different industry. :1orglaugh

The authorities are not really interested in 2257, if they were they would of been checking sites that obviously don't have documents and not checking companies who are likely to have documents.

Teen Revenue is the one who filed suit? NICE! They have always been my #1 and now I have even more reason to send them additional sales.

So F true!
The irony of it all, is that the adult industry- at least some of it - is fighting against unfair regulations, censorship, .xxx ... u name it... and the real criminals benefit under these shelters. By screwing those who fight "for" them.
At some point there will be a tipping point. Not only for adult industry, but on the internet in general. The politicians, especially the right/conservative ones, can just lean back and wait for the excuse. The ones crying most, when it happens, will be those who can't run a legal and fully open business.

Very true. Unless Governments do something drastic a great opportunity will be missed.

Here's the Answer
 

Quoting from the below article: "If the case ever had legs, those legs appear to have suffered the equivalent of a tibia-fibula compound fracture. Yesterday, the Honorable Maureen Duffy-Lewis dismissed the case under California?s Anti-SLAPP statute, Cal. Code Civ. Proc. 425.16."

http://randazza.wordpress.com/2009/0...ound-fracture/

:Oh crap judge laughed them out of court - not sure why they chose go that route when i'm sure that Pornhub and all the big tube sites have Teen Revenue videos on them -proving that Pornhub and other tube sites in no way meet the criteria for safe harbor protection under the DMCA is far easier than the anti-trust argument.

again one more of my predictions came true.

hard battle 2 fight

It was a retarded case to begin with LOL. We've been talking about it in the office and I can't believe that teenrevenue guy was stupid enough to waste his time and money on this case. Oh well. I give him points for trying but it was a huge waste of a try.

I imagine nobody knew how it would turn out because the american legal system is so screwed up. The only hope was getting a brain dead judge. Unfortunately for him he didn't.

some interesting staff to read...

Me too. :2 cents:

you respect him wasting money on a dog of case which had a snowballs chance in hell of winning why ?

I respect him having the balls to try something unfortunately it wasn't well thought out or researched. I'm guessing he was given bad advice.

On a personal note I'm not very well educated in the legal arena. I do my homework and get as much information as possible but for the most part when it comes to legal situations I rely on my lawyers for guidance. I'm not sure if this was Kevin's idea that he shoved down his lawyer's throat or their idea that they shoved down his.

my opinion is the exact opposite when you go after a dog of a case and lose you create a legal precedent that your opponents can use against you to further extend their rights.

not researching this case before, blindly going in with this dog has now absolutely established the law on the side of the tube sites. IT means arguements that could have won are going to have overcome this ruling to get by, making it way worse for everyone.

this cheerleader mentality has to stop, cheering a guy on waste money on dog of a case like this is actually the worst thing you can do for your industry.

Actually that's a good point. I hadn't thought of it that way.

I proved my other point I don't know shit about the legal system lol

So RedTube won?

not only did they win but the case was ruled to be such a dog that teenrevenue had to pay all of red tubes legal bills.

really bad precedent set for everyone else.

No actually thank god they lost.

The implications had they won would have been quite worrying. Would have opened up a can of worms, not just for tubes.

HAHA redtube is the shit!

damn fucked twice :Oh crap

not the point i was making it was a snowballs chance in hell of winning

it would have been better if they never filed the case at all, the precedent set now and doubles if not triple the cost of legitimate arguements (like when you fully provide for the fair use rights of your customers).

:1orglaugh

bunch of porn sites in court..

Was the entire case thrown out or just the part that claims the advertisers are "aiders and abettors"?

wow that fucking sucks.

honestly, i think they are hear to stay until ISPs start to block them or some CP ends up on the site and they are shut down by the DOJ... neither of which i can see happening

the entire case was booted. anti-slapp doesn't kick in until the case is over.

For once I agree with Gideon. This was a stupid case and should never of been even thought of. Shows how much serious thought Kevin Cammarata put into it. He got terrible advice and never went anywhere else to get another opinion. His lawyer ripped him a new ass hole, maybe.

The legal route is not the route to go to beat Tubes, it will likely cost fortunes and achieve little. Might even set precedents that will make it harder and more expensive in the future.

someone should definitely inform the officials there... i'd love to see what's going on then... :upsidedow

the legal tide is turning against piracy but it's gonna be years - gideon can run around the room in circles making airplane noises but slowly judges are figuring out what's going on.
piracy is piracy, it's not such a gray area. we all know what Pornhub et all are doing - not so hard to convince a judge or jury.

i think that Viacom vs Google/YouTube lawsuit is gonna be landmark.

That is the most idiotic write up I've ever seen. The guy doesn't have a clue about what the case was about.

btw being it's Brazers whom owns many of these illegal tubes. Why doesn't someone sue them for unfair business practices? I'm sure it could be argued that they are trying to dilute their competitions content by giving it away for free on tube sites, causing their competition harm.

says the guy who praising teenrevenue for going forward with this dog of a case.

unfair trade practices don't apply as long as the safe harbor makes their actions legal. you are trying to make the arguement that an action ruled by law to be perfectly legal is unfair.

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/famil...ying%20jpg.jpg

it not going to win especially since the only reason the law protect them is because the copyright holder chooses not to fulfil the fair use rights of their customers.

:1orglaugh

So curious, wtf is it you do in this industry other than tell us all how great torrent and illegal tubes are?

i would think that pointing out that tubes and torrents are next vcr if exploited properly would be enough :winkwink:

A hearing to strike the $40 million lawsuit brought by Internet adult entrepreneur...
40 M ... omg