TACOMA, Wash. — MG Premium, a MindGeek company described by their lawyers as "among the world's leading providers of adult entertainment content," was granted early discovery last month by a Washington State court in their lawsuit for damages and injunctive relief against the operators of YesPornPlease.com and VShare.io.
Last April 6, U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle granted MG Premium’s Ex Parte Motion for Early Discovery, “to determine the names and addresses of certain subscribers connected to certain IP addresses that have been used to operate the YesPornPlease.com and VShare.io websites and domain names to infringe upon Plaintiff’s copyrighted works.”
Judge Settle also granted “permission to then issue interrogatories to and depose the subscribers identified by these ISPs in order to determine whether the subscriber is a proper defendant in this action.”
MG Premium alleges that the lawsuit, filed in the Western District of Washington State, "seeks to protect thousands of its copyrighted audiovisual works from blatant infringement by" Does 1-20, doing business as YesPornPlease.com and/or VShare.io.
MG Premium alleges that the defendants "own and operate websites engaged in the business of copying and distributing infringing audiovisual works" under the guise of "acting as a distributor of user-generated content."
The original complaint included over 60 pages in a spreadsheet format listing 3,078 videos that MG Premium alleges YesPornPlease has pirated.
The enormous list includes thousands of titles like "I'm Not a Doctor But I Play One on Brazzers," "Carwash Day! Bubble Butts and Sudsy Sluts" and "Sir Keiran's School of Anal Training Part 3."
"Operators of websites serving pirated content, who show blatant disregard to content owners by ignoring copyright law and the DMCA takedown process, should expect to be targeted with numerous measures taken by copyright owners to protect their valuable works," noted industry veteran Jason Tucker, president of copyright enforcement company Battleship Stance, at the time of the February filing.
"These pirate operators cause substantial and irreparable harm to all copyright owners, the largest of which will always be the most persistent in protecting their brands and content from theft, piracy and illegal use," Tucker added.
At the time of publication, YesPornPlease.com reroutes to a similar website named Porngo.com.
