Who is up for a class-action suit against megarotic?
 

Remember you will most likely need legal money up front.

Who is in?

isn't that German guy in Hong Kong?
where u going to file it? california?

Any company that is proudly sponsored by our friend at Adult Friend Finder, is legit enough for me. :)

Despite what you think, you can sue people in other countries. It doesn't make it easier, but it can be done.

http://www.megarotic.com/video/?c=premium

That is an open and shut case if you ask me. They are making money off something that clearly isn't their to sell.

I dont think so it's free porn

The thread title sounds like "So... i'm bored, wanna go sue someone we don't like today?" - any caselaw on the books for this sort of thing? Is it even winnable? Are they located in a country that doesn't give a fuck?

If your trying to be serious, then let's get a serious thread going here... otherwise....

Who cares.

Well I can sue you for no reason tomorrow. Companies can sue John Doe based on IP address. The question is what are you getting in return? Privacy in Hong Kong is probably different from what you used to. I’m not trying to decoupage your efforts, knock yourself out, but there are reasons why most successful and vicious spammers live in countries like Hong Kong, Russia, the Ukraine..

And AFF is making money off of the people who are involved with illegal activities. Why not sure AFF too. It is their only sponsor.

i say we hire a couple mercs....

going after the sponsors will be the ticket.

Great point.

Find some grounds to stop their cash flow and they'll close up shop, its much easier and cheaper to do than getting a class action suit.
WG

The guys is actually in China.

hong kong has been under chinese control for some years now...

Leave AFF alone Will. Jay uses AFF on his sites. AFF is a stand-up company. If AFF supports Megarotic and is their primary sponsor, it must be Ok.

Hong Kong IS China, Redneck Jesus… :1orglaugh

More like 10 years. Jay must have missed that back in 97

Sounds like a good project, but I don't have standing.

You most likely won't be able to do shit if he's in China. Therefore I'd target his sponsors (which there is legal precedence for) and potentially the processor and hosts.

US lawsuit against China?

Don't think that would work BUT, as far as I know pornography is illegal in China.. think from the other end - theoretically they could get busted by the Chinese government (if they really are in Hong Kong)

Any lawsuit like this would be a very interesting precedent for sure..

It's probably triad or serious government business

oh.... good fucking idea... anyone know how to report people to the government in china? dude'll get executed :D

I like how you think...

AFF deserves to go down as well for underwriting content theft, if that is what is occuring.

ADG

Bingo...the police busting him would be 1st page news in all of China...the guy lives at Hyatt in Hong Kong ...Schmidt i think his name, owns megavideo and megaupload....fuck segpay for processing him too

Now who said this thread wasn't serious? He could be exectuted over this shit.

I did. Prove me I was wrong. Let me see what you can do.

Stand up Jay, You have what it takes .. Money, name.. well your name wont mean shit outside adult webmaster community, but I dare you to do it.. I will contribute to your legal fund.

I couldn't join the "class" because I don't own any content and therefore have no cause of action against them.

I would however be supportive of any type of "legal fund" that was put together for this purpose after the case was filed. :thumbsup

I can not post URLS but its
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz who Jay is thinking of. I have no idea if he owns it but he had a cool website back in the day and was active in the gumball 2000 stuff

this will never get done. It never does.

Despite the whole content theft thing you've got to have some respect for guys who can push something to that level.

AFF is their main source of income. AFF is in California sue them. :2 cents:

i apologize then :Oh crap I am ready for my lashes, just let me know when.

hmm the fact that he is in china and operates a porn site is enough for chinese law to arrest/ convict him I tought ?

I'd prefer to send my lawyers Leroy Brown and Andre Jackson of Smith, Wesson and Rutger LLP.

There are SOME adult companies who agressively persue this sort of thing, but we are really relying on them. Most likely nothing will ever be done.

Rutger sure can be creepy, especially in bladerunner.

This one is my favorite.
http://www.megarotic.com/?v=RLQF9WJE

I would be interested in contributing to something like this. Not able to join the class action part.

In other industries I have worked in we have lobbyist who try and get laws changed to protect our interests. Has anyone thought about something like that or contributing to the ones that the regular movie and music industry have?

Dropping them a line about the illegal porn operation they have running.

Beijing Public Security Bureau
[email protected]

Ministry of Public Security, P.R. China
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Hong Kong Chinese Police
https://secure1.info.gov.hk/police/e...lEnquiries.htm
[email protected]

Megarotic Limited
Room 1204, 12/F
48-62 Hennessy Road
Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Hong Kong

How about stop supporting companies that support these kinds of sites

I've never promoted AFF.

neither have I

never will

Hire some Triads to take him out !

he is ignoring all those posts. dont you see?

Actually it's not "IN" China, it's on the bottom of China. :1orglaugh

Amazes me China allows it I always thought porn was a big no no there.

At the recent Prague show I bumped into the Commerce Gate rep, the billing company for Megarotic. She said they had some problems with Megarotic but have now been assured the content is legal. After asking her if she was joking she said no they had been assured it was all legal.

What we need to do is keep hitting them, their hosting companies, Commerce Gate and everyone else with DMCA's until something gives.

It's cheaper than lawyers.

They have a site with legal content and payweb does their billing and it is called megarotic...and I suspect it will soon be their only site as the user uploaded content site built the traffic for their legal content site.

why dont you just hire a hitman?

should be much cheaper.

CommerceGate billing (NOCREDITCARD.COM) is processing for them......a lot
of adult companies use NCC for phone billing and such.....I'd first put pressure
on them......CommerceGate is the number 1 choice for processing when you
have illegal content.

Makes far more sense to sue the sponsors. Granter, megarotic will get new ones, but sponsors may be a bit more wary of where they get their traffic if there is a judgment in your favor. Far more winnable to stay in the States and certainly more collectable. :2 cents:

Suing somebody in China will prove to be an uphill battle just to win the right for a court to hear the case.


Then even if you win by using some long arm statute and get a judgement or whatever it will be another uphill battle to enforce it.