Dorm Angels Under Investigation?
 

WTF is this ?

SEATTLE, Wash. ? A three-year-old porn site that originated out of a dorm room at Seattle-based University of Washington is the subject of a recent investigation by the state's Attorney General's office.
According to Dr. Norm Arkins, the associate vice president of university relations, the investigation of DormAngels.com is based on allegations of trademark infringement. Arkins told XBiz that some of the site's content is believed to have been shot at recognizable locations on the university's campus.

"We have not actually seen the website," Arkins told XBiz. "Our interest is in our name and whether images of the campus have been misused. We have property rights in the images and our name."

Founded by former business student Brett Jennings with just a few thousand dollars and a partner named Jeff, DormAngels based its content on hundreds of co-eds eager to make $100 an hour posing nude and semi-nude. Many of the models featured on the site claim to be former students, or students from other colleges and universities in the region.

Jennings started his online career with a job at a search engine and then returned to the University of Washington to finish his degree. He and his partner recruited talent through the school newspaper and other alternative papers.

Arkins added that the school's administrative offices are in the process of communicating their concerns with Jennings and that if the allegations are true, and if Jennings fails to cooperate, they will issue a cease-and-desist order to have the website disabled.

The Attorney General's inquiry came on the heels of a News Tribune article that featured DormAngels. Prior to that, school officials had not wanted to interfere with Jennings' First Amendment rights.

DormAngels is just one of many attempts students have undertaken to launch student-based porn websites on campuses. Earlier this year, Harvard University students launched a nude magazine featuring talent from the female student body.

Now an alumnus of the university, Jennings attributes his rise in the ranks of online adult porn to applying some fundamental business tactics to the thriving Internet sex industry that is always looking for content featuring college-age girls.

"Looking around campus there were 20,000 cute college girls, most of whom were complaining about not having any money," Jennings said. "I had $12,000, but I knew that wasn't going to get me through two school years, and Jeff had a digital camera that was a present from his parents. It was an obvious equation."

Jennings and his partner are also the owners of another adult website, MidwestMandy.com, which focuses on one single girl and already equals the amount of subscribers as DormAngels.

Jennings has said that he fully intends to cooperate with the investigation into his website

do you have a link bro?

Damn.

Mandy's site had as many members as DA? Wow.

crap

damn thats some serious shit

i'm sure Brett's willing to cooperate cause he has his act together and nothing to worry about.

the most interesting thing in that article is the fact that MidwestMandy has as many members as DormAngels.

good luck with the investigation Brett!

bret actually went to college?


lol j/k


good luck with all the legal shit

I thought Mandy quit Dorm Angels..

Sucks..I read about the previous situations but looks like it is turning from bad to worse

sounds like theyre just pissed that he did something from "recognizable" places on campus. im sure they can settle it out. brett's a cool guy.

not a bad kisser either. :1orglaugh

Crazy stuff, good luck with everything Brett.

So true..


good luck Brett.:)

Someone else who occasionally frequents this board had something of a similar nature happen to them.

The purchasers of their old home had someone come to them and say they saw the home in the website. One of their stage names was the same name as one of the new owners. Total coincidence.

The state where they originally started came after them for obscenity charges and in the end they closed their site as part of a settlement to keep from going in front of a jury.

Brand protection of a trademark is not something to be taken lightly, but hopefully Brett and any partners he has have saved money along the way for attorneys fees and other incidentals if they are going to fight.

Ouch..still will leave a "blackeye" as affiliates are so fickle when they hear of any situation with any sponsor..Hope they can end these allegations quickly

Frankly as long as they are paying on time and in full, I don't think their other issues should be concerns of their affiliates. I know that doesn't always translate into realities, but this is the land of innocent until proven guilty and from what I've seen, they've always been stand up guys. Until they announce a problem, I don't foresee one.

Maybe I'll eat those words in six months, but they are nice guys with a nice program.

DM just has to make a few changes, no biggie

I just got off the phone with Brett, It's business as usual

Everything you read on the internet is true

This is not that serious. We did shot two sets of content on campus and it was on public property and we dont for see this as a problem. We do mention that the girls are UW students, but that is a statement of fact. So we dont think we are infringing on their trade mark.

They havent make content with us yet. Naturally we are not going to fight the UW legal team. So we will comply to what ever they want us to do.

Hopefully this will be good for a couple of joins.

That's the way it should be :)

They will stop at nothing to get their cut of the cash.

Fuckers.

This part makes me laugh: