Why I suspect MG Premium Ltd. will soon be suing defendants.

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MG Premium Ltd. is the owner of the websites containing adult content, [specifically, “Reality Kings,” “Brazzers,” “MOFOS,” “Babes.com,” “Twistys,” and others]. While at the moment they appear to be merely “shaking down” adult film websites [e.g., last year, WAXTUBE.COM; this year, YESPORNPLEASE.COM and/or VSHARE.IO], I cannot help but to think that MG Premium Ltd. will soon be suing downloaders accused of streaming their copyrighted adult films on Tube-like websites. 

[Less likely (because they have already tried this in the US with CEG-TEK), I suspect that MG Premium might again begin sending DMCA settlement demand letters to US-based accused internet users just as they are currently doing in Sweden as I write this article (currently, they are trying to shake down 16,594 accused internet users in Sweden who have been observed downloading their adult film titles).]

mg-premium-ltd. Pornhub has been ordered to expose copyright infringers

Why I think MG Premium’s lawsuits will catch internet users who are STREAMING CONTENT rather than downloading videos on BITTORRENT SWARMS:

In April of 2017, I suggested that in the future, internet users will be caught viewing streamed Tube-like videos.  I suggested that based on the Pornhub lawsuit (MG Premium Ltd. owns Pornhub.com), viewers of adult content would get caught by the Google Analytics tracker which is installed on many websites using Google Analytics to track their users. 

This would be a “next-gen” kind of lawsuit where the copyright holders move past tracking bittorrent use (an outdated method of tracking downloaders), and they would start using the pirated porn websites themselves to track the users by their IP address.

Unfortunately, I was wrong about the tracker, but I was right about the concept.  Instead of Google Analytics, I should have been looking at Cloudflare, the content delivery network (“CDN”) provider which hosts a majority of the content online. 

In the near future, I expect [from mere 1+1 observation] that MG Premium Ltd. will soon launch lawsuits against John Doe defendants… but not based on bittorrent use.  Rather, they will have companies such as Cloudflare turn over the IP address logs of which IP addresses accessed the pirated adult films on which dates and times.

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WHO IS MG PREMIUM LTD.?

MG Premium Ltd. is a subsidiary of Mindgeek. According to Ernesto from Torrentfreak, “[MG Premium Ltd.] the company, formerly known as Manwin, owns one of the most visited adult websites, Pornhub, and is also the driving force behind YouPorn, Redtube, Tube8, Xtube, and dozens of other sites.”

TechNadu, “MindGeek is the owner of Pornhub, one of the most visited porn websites in the world, as well as the owner of well-known adult production companies.”

NOTE: MG PREMIUM LTD. ALSO USED TO ACT UNDER THE NAME FROYTAL SERVICES LTD., THEN THEY ACTED UNDER THE NAME “MANWIN CONTENT.”

HISTORY: MG PREMIUM LTD USED A COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT COMPANY TO SEND DMCA SETTLEMENT DEMAND LETTERS.

The last time I saw MG Premium Ltd. acting in the “copyright trolling” space was in 2014-2016 when they hired Copyright Enforcement Group (“CEG-TEK”) to send settlement demand letters asking for money every time an accused downloader downloaded one of their thousands of copyrighted titles.

At the time, MG Premium Ltd. was using the business entity name “Froytal Services Limited”. I was tracking them for some time trying to warn those downloading their titles that they will receive a settlement demand letter from MG Premium Ltd. and others using CEG-TEK’s services. At the time, they were asking for $300/title allegedly downloaded, but back then, the Strike 3 Holdings, LLC “Tushy, Vixen, and Blacked” lawsuits did not yet get started.

In 2015, the average settlement for an MG Premium Ltd. case was something like $900 (~3 titles displayed on CEG-TEK’s page). Now we are seeing Strike 3 Holdings, LLC lawsuits ask for settlements closer to $30,000 or $40,000 and I have no doubt that MG Premium Ltd. has noticed.

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MG PREMIUM LTD. IN 2015:

In 2014-2015, most internet users at that time were fearful about $150,000 copyright infringement lawsuits filed in federal courts, as we see today with the Strike 3 Holdings LLC and (and in past years with the Malibu Media LLC lawsuits).

In 2015, MG Premium Ltd. (via CEG-TEK) went around the US federal courts and used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) to “politely ask” the ISPs to forward their settlement demand letter to ISP subscriber’s e-mail address on file.

Using DMCA settlement demand notices [which went into the e-mail inbox of ISP account holders], MG Premium Ltd. accused the ISP account holders of copyright infringement.

They threatened that they could file a copyright infringement lawsuit against them in federal court. However, “to avoid litigation,” they were willing to have the accused downloaders pay CEG-TEK (their agent) a modest settlement anonymously and conveniently using a credit card.

CEG-TEK was the company they hired to set up the settlement payment website and to handle the settlement negotiations should an accused downloader have multiple titles claimed against him (and most did).

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I knew that tracking the piracy of every one of their adult films was prohibitively expensive because the huge amount of computer resources it would take to track every single bittorrent swarm containing the various versions leaking on the internet of each of their movie titles (1080p, 720, high definiton (HD), low definition, clips, siterips, mistitled swarms, etc.).

Thus, I realized that MG Premium Ltd. merely resorted to selecting adult film videos (their most “popular” titles) which they believed would yield the largest number of settlements. For this reason, I posted an list of titles that MG Premium Ltd. was tracking.

The fall of CEG-TEK and the end of MG Premium Ltd.’s copyright trolling DMCA settlement campaign:

There is a lot of history in what ended up killing CEG-TEK’s DMCA settlement business, but to keep things simple, many ISPs got together and created the Six Strikes Anti-Piracy System where the ISPs stopped forwarding CEG-TEK’s settlement demand letters (cutting off MG Premium Ltd.’s ability to collect settlement payments).

Instead of forwarding the DMCA settlement demand letter, under the Six Strikes System, ISPs simply notified their customer that copyright infringement had occurred on their internet connection, and if it did not stop, they would share their identity with the copyright holder (exposing that internet user to a copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court for $150,000 per instance of infringement).

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The immediate result was that big ISPs were no longer forwarding CEG-TEK’s settlement demand letters. CEG-TEK then expanded the list of ISPs that agreed to forward its DMCA settlement demand letters, but in the end, to no avail.

While the Six Strikes System was meant to support the copyright holders’ interests by sharing user information with them, instead it killed the business of the copyright enforcement companies. It also caused other non-member ISPs to also start refusing to comply with the DMCA rules [as companies such as CEG-TEK and MG Premium Ltd. were exploiting them] by refusing to forward settlement demand letters in their entirety.

Most notable of these ISPs was COX Communications, which was eventually sued by BMG for refusing to send over DMCA notices to its subscribers. There is no doubt a lot to write about the BMG v. Cox lawsuit, but the focus in this article is on MG Premium Ltd., CEG-TEK’s old client.

The Six Strikes System eventually ended (as far as I know), but before this occurred, the idea of sending DMCA letters to internet account users became a useless endeavor.

The last time I spoke to CEG-TEK, they were waiting for the outcome of the BMG v. Cox lawsuit to determine whether they could continue their proprietary DMCA settlement demand letter “adult film copyright enforcement” business, or whether they would sell it to the highest bidder.

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I suspected at one point that Malibu Media LLC or other prolific copyright trolls would buy CEG-TEK’s DMCA settlement website and proprietary technology, but due to circumstances of Malibu Media LLC filing lawsuits against its own attorney Keith Lipscomb (the attorney running all of the Malibu Media LLC adult film lawsuits across the US), the sale to Malibu Media LLC never happened. (In full disclosure and in hindsight, CEG-TEK would never have sold their business model to Malibu Media LLC based solely on the fact that CEG-TEK tried its best to keep its operations legitimate and Malibu Media LLC had a bad reputation).

Instead, the CEG-TEK company is gathering dust and happily, no MG Premium Ltd. settlement demand letters have been sent out [to US internet] users since 2016.

WHAT NOW?

So where do we go from here? Honestly, at this moment, nowhere. The BMG lawsuit ended with COX settling the claims against it (giving DMCA settlement demand letters from companies such as CEG-TEK and Rightscorp (music) some “teeth” — because now copyright owners could force ISPs to shut down the internet accounts of those accused of copyright infringement — but those who were running CEG-TEK already moved on to other business ventures.

CEG-TEK is in the dustbin, for the moment, adult film company Malibu Media LLC lawsuits have stopped because Malibu Media LLC again is in litigation with their new attorneys, and Strike 3 Holdings, LLC cases are floundering like a fish-out-of-water with some federal court rulings killing their business method of suing accused downloaders for copyright infringement in federal court.

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The new tactic of “shaking down” large websites hosting pirated content.

No doubt the new tactic of going after the large websites hosting copyrighted content is a very profitable idea for the adult film copyright holders. Instead of shaking down end-users (downloaders) for a few hundred dollars per video, they can shake down significantly deeper pockets — the adult film websites hosting “free” adult film content [and, consequently making millions of dollars in advertising revenue]… and the adult film movie copyright holders want every penny of that revenue.

I am seeing the same trend on the movie front. I understand that movie companies have been going after the websites that are hosting copyrighted movie content… first The Pirate Bay… and most recently, IceFilms.info (currently down, and possibly down forever).

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My Thoughts: Staying Away From Downloaders is a Good Thing for Downloaders.

If the movie companies and the adult film companies can succeed in shutting down the website owners who host the unlicensed copyrighted movies AND they stop trying to sue and extort thousands of dollars from each accused internet user who was observed downloading the copyrighted movies, this would be a good outcome.

Of course, millions of users who rely on pirated movies and TV shows would be temporarily unable to access their movies without paying some cable company provider or subscription-based providers such as Hulu, Disney+, Netflix, etc., but at least the focus of the copyright holders will be in the right place — trying to stop the AVAILABILITY of pirated content.

…but “a scorpion cannot act in any way other than a scorpion.”

And yet, out comes the jaded part of me which laughs when I consider that “a scorpion cannot act in any way other than a scorpion.” MG Premium Ltd., Strike 3 Holdings, LLC, and other movie copyright trolls are not going to change who they are. They may shed their skin and change their tactics momentarily (perhaps now moving from tracking accused downloaders on Bittorrent to tracking them using Cloudflare or Google Analytics), but they will not stop going after the most profitable source of revenue… the collective deep pockets of those accused of downloading their copyrighted films.

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If you are old enough to get the “Little Shop of Horrors” reference, maybe giving the venus fly trap “a drop of blood” at a time to keep it momentarily satiated will stay the coming copyright infringement lawsuits (the “drop of blood” = each movie website who pays the copyright holders a multi-million dollar settlement).

But eventually, I have NO DOUBT that the words “FEED ME SEYMOUR!” will once again begin to ring in the halls of the federal courts across the US as new lawsuits are filed against accused downloaders yet again.

This time, however, I suspect that the copyright trolls will have changed their skin. They will no longer sue accused internet users who used BITTTORENT to download their copyrighted videos, but rather, they will use big-tech companies such as Cloudflare and Google as partners in their “Anti-Piracy” campaign to sue each IP address who visited a particular website and who streamed a particular video on a particular date.

Comparing the Little Shop of Horrors' Venus Fly Trap (Audrey II) to MG Premium Ltd. and their desire for a "drop of blood."
Comparing the Little Shop of Horrors’ Venus Fly Trap (Audrey II) to MG Premium Ltd. and their desire for a “drop of blood.”

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    RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT Sending DMCA Letters for Porn

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    In June, 2014, I exposed the list of adult film companies that were working with CEG-TEK.  This upset a lot of adult film companies, who turned around and started having CEG-TEK send letters using a variation on their name (which made no sense to me *IF* the reason they were having CEG-TEK send out DMCA notices was to “encourage ‘pirates’ to sign into their websites legitimately and pay an annual fee”).  Instead, like roaches, these companies scattered, but even so, I still tracked the name changes and I kept this list up to date.

    The reason this list is immediately relevant is because now Carl Crowell is sending out these same DMCA notices to Internet Subscribers through his RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT company.  For more about Crowell or his RIGHTSENFORCEMENT.COM website, click this link.

    Below is a list I compiled from my own records as to which copyright holders are hiring companies to collect $300 per title settlements on their adult film copyrights.  The exciting news from 2017 is that I now have an idea of what are the companies which are now working aggressively with Carl Crowell (RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT), including some which were not working with CEG-TEK.  I will list the most active companies first.

    REALITY KINGS (Manwin Content)

    Reality Kings (http://www.realitykings.com).  Reality Kings has obscured their name in the past after I posted the original list in 2014.  They have been known to send out DMCA letters using the names 1) Manwin Content RK Limited DBA Reality Kings, and 2) MG Content RK Limited.  Regardless of the name, it is still Reality Kings.

    Reality Kings is a giant corporation, comprising 45+ separated brand names, each of which have their own website.  

    For a list of some of Reality Kings’ titles that I know they have enforced via the DMCA letters, see my original list in the “ORIGINAL LIST OF PORN COMPANIES SENDING DMCA NOTICES” heading.

    BRAZZERS (MG Premium Ltd.)

    Brazzers (http://www.brazzers.com).  Brazzers also has obscured their name in the past after I posted the original list in 2014.  They have been known to send out DMCA letters using the names 1) Froytal Services Limited DBA Brazzers, and confusingly enough, 2) MG Premium Ltd.  The interesting point to note is that this MG Premium entity seems to be a common thread through a number of the big-name porn companies, which suggests that there is a common owner or entity through which they tunnel their copyright enforcement activities.  At this moment, I am not searching deeper into learning who they are.

    Brazzers is another a giant corporation, comprising 47+ separated brand names, each of which have their own website.  

    For a list of some of Brazzers titles that I know they have enforced via the DMCA letters, see my original list in the “ORIGINAL LIST OF COMPANIES SENDING DMCA NOTICES” heading.

    DIGITAL PLAYGROUND (Manwin DP)

    Digital Playground (http://www.digitalplayground.com).  Digital Playground is the third company that obscured their name as soon as I posted the original list in 2014.  They have been known to send out DMCA letters using the names 1) Digital Playground, and more frequently, 2) Manwin DP Corp. DBA Digital Playground.

    Digital Playground is another a giant corporation, comprising 47+ separated brand names, each of which have their own website.  However, unlike Reality Kings and Brazzers, Digital Playground has taken steps to mask the list of brand names by hiding them behind an “A(1), B(5), C(0)…” list.  Thus, I am sharing the full list below:

    For a list of some of Digital Playground titles that I know they have enforced via the DMCA letters, see my original list in the “ORIGINAL LIST OF PORN COMPANIES SENDING DMCA NOTICES” heading, below.

    ORIGINAL LIST OF PORN COMPANIES SENDING DMCA NOTICES

    Axel Braun Productions

    Celestial Inc., DBA Lethal Hardcore

    Cinderella Distributors Inc.

    Coast to Coast Video

    Combat Zone Inc.

    Daring Media Group

    Diabolic

    Digital Sin, Inc.

    Echo Alpha, Inc. DBA Evil Angel

    Fallout Films

    Froytal Services Limited DBA Babes (now known as “MG Premium Ltd.”)

    Froytal Services Limited DBA Brazzers (now known as “MG Premium Ltd.”)

    Froytal Services Limited DBA Mofos (now known as “MG Premium Ltd.”)

    Froytal Services Limited DBA Twistys (now known as “MG Premium Ltd.”)

    GGW Direct, LLC

    Giant Media Group, Inc. DBA Devil’s Film (they have changed this name more than once, but have kept the “Devil’s Film” trade name.)

    Girlfriends Films Inc.

    Intense Industries

    JM Productions Inc.

    JW Releasing Ltd

    Kick Ass Pictures Inc.

    LFP Internet Group, LLC

    Manwin Content RK Limited DBA Reality Kings (now known as “MG Content RK Limited”)

    Manwin DP Corp. DBA Digital Playground

    Marc Dorcel

    Marc Dorcel DBA SBO Pictures, Inc.

    SBO Pictures

    SBO Pictures DBA Wicked Pictures

    Metro Media Entertainment

    Millennium TGA, DBA Grooby Productions

    New Sensations Inc.

    Patrick Collins Inc., DBA Elegant Angel

    Pleasure Productions Inc.

    RLD Distribution LLC

    Second Phase Distribution Inc.

    Third Degree Films, Inc.

    Vivid Entertainment LLC

    White Ghetto Films Inc.

    Zero Tolerance Entertainment

    Now obviously you will notice a common theme along each of these copyright holders, and that is the “genre” of content they all produce. You will also notice that in this list there are “copyright trolls,” (meaning, companies who in the past have used or use the federal courts to sue individual downloaders for copyright infringement) and there are “not” copyright trolls (meaning, companies who have NOT sued defendants for copyright infringement). You can see which are copyright trolls by either searching the web for their name, or doing a search on PACER or JUSTIA to see whether they have sued in federal court.

    A few things to note.

    1) Many of the larger companies have multiple websites, and do business as multiple entities. For example, Froytal Services Ltd. “does business as” (“DBA”) Mofos and Brazzers (corresponding to their other websites).

    2) Many copyright holders are OLDER COMPANIES and FAMILY OPERATED BUSINESSES. This means that it is common to have former porn companies hire CEG TEK to track and send letters for “vintage” films from the 1970’s and 1980’s. The copyrights for these films ARE STILL IN EFFECT, and the former owners of those companies are now elder individuals who are now enforcing their copyrights from FORTY YEARS AGO. On the flip side, many older couples have been caught downloading a film from their youth thinking that since the titles were so old, it was probably legal to do so.

    In sum, all I ask of everyone is to understand that the bittorrent networks are no longer safe, and when you download something, assume someone else is watching you. And, be aware that there are companies out there like RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT who are lurking in the bittorrent swarms waiting for you to click on a link so that they can send you a settlement demand letter.


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      CEG-TEK asleep. Why new hits?

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      [UPDATE: This mystery has been solved.  Carl Crowell has created a new entity called RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT which has reverse-engineered CEG-TEK’s proprietary DMCA copyright infringement notice system.  Many of you have visited CEG-TEK links thinking that RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT was CEG-TEK, but really they are an ‘evil twin’ competitor.]

      This is confusing me.  CEG-TEK has not been active since last summer.

      As I wrote in December, CEG-TEK started to change the internal makeup of their company, and they changed the clients they were taking to more ‘mainstream’ movie clients.  …But then they went *SILENT*.

      [In passing, I want to note that CEG-TEK had a shake-up as well over the summer. They were changing their business model from sending DMCA notices and soliciting small $300 settlements for copyright infringement claims for just a few titles to sending notices only to “more egregious downloaders” which in turn would increase the per-person settlement amount paid to CEG-TEK on behalf of their clients. They also appear to have been changing their client base by transitioning away from little porn companies to more well-known copyright trolls (e.g., Millennium Films, LHF Productions, etc.) — copyright holders who threatened to sue downloaders (and in at least one circumstance did sue at least one client of mine in federal court.) The point is that they were changing their image from being a company who’s clients didn’t sue to a company who’s clients do sue…]
      – Excerpt from the “CEG-TEK and Lipscomb – Star Crossed Lovers” article, 12/21/16.

      CEG-TEK has been silent since the Girls Gone Wild fiasco in July, 2016, where their once-flawless DMCA machine started sending hundreds of duplicate notices to the same internet users.  At the time, I joked that ‘perhaps they were being so effective at stopping piracy that they were probably putting themselves out of business’.

      Then the following month, I noticed an across-the-board drop in activity from CEG-TEK.  As far as I knew, they even stopped sending DMCA letters to accused internet users through their ISPs.  I noted the defeat of a once-great foe, and even wrote a cautionary article revealing my observed changes in the “Unintended Consequences of Winning the Bittorrent Piracy War” article.

      Since August, 2016… silence.  September… silence.  October… silence.  November… silence.  December… silence.  January… silence.  February… silence.  March… some activity.

      In the past few days, I’ve noticed a significant ‘uptick’ in visits to the CEG-TEK articles.  I don’t even watch the keywords enough to notice the little changes, but this one looked significant.  That’s enough to pique my interest and ask you, the reader, whether CEG-TEK has risen from the dead.

      Please do share if you have received a DMCA notice of copyright infringement from Ira Siegel, from CEG-TEK (a.k.a. “Copyright Enforcement Group”), or some new attorney affiliated with their cause.

      What could CEG-TEK be up to?

      To me, this uptick means one of two things: 1) They started sending DMCA settlement demand notices out again, or 2) CEG-TEK is considering taking on a new partner (something I was gravely concerned about early last year).  When the opportunity passed and I learned from CEG-TEK shared that they would not pursue this option, I wrote the “CEG-TEK and Lipscomb – Star Crossed Lovers” article to share the disaster that could have happened if someone like Lipscomb took over CEG-TEK’s DMCA notification system and “copyrightsettlements.com” website.

      The confusing part is that their “copyrightsettlements.com” website forwards back to http://www.cegtek.com, which for the moment has been taken down and only shows the following notice:

      Settlement opportunity services are currently not provided through CEG TEK.

      So, what is going on with CEG-TEK?

      -Rob


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        CEG-TEK’s client list.

        I believe it is the duty of the copyright holders to “police their own copyrights,” meaning, if a company sees a file sharing tracker or website hosting an unlicensed copy of their copyrighted work, BY ALL MEANS, issue a DMCA takedown notice to the website or to the file sharing tracker, and that torrent will be GONE AND UNAVAILABLE for downloaders to take the content.

        [2017 UPDATE: Carl Crowell has created a new entity called RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT which has reverse-engineered CEG-TEK’s proprietary DMCA copyright infringement notice system.  Many of you have visited CEG-TEK links thinking that RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT was CEG-TEK, but really they are an ‘evil twin’ competitor.  Since the two entities operate almost the same way, and since Crowell has solicited (and likely taken) most of the clients on this list, this article is relevant.]

        2016 UPDATE:  I wrote this article in June, 2014.  Immediately afterwards, a number of the companies changed their names which confused the issue of who was a copyright troll suing defendants, and who was not a copyright troll.  It is now almost two years later, and while I usually do not update older posts, since this article does still come up from time to time, I am updated a few of the copyright holders’ names.  -RZC

        Rather than doing this, copyright holders hire CEG-TEK to target EVERY SINGLE DOWNLOADER with a letter forwarded by various ISPs, privacy providers, or university IT departments who are cooperating with CEG-TEK (sometimes for profit). Account holders receive “notice of infringement” letters sent directly to them either via an e-mail, FedEx, or a screen pop-up link along with a notification that they have violated the ISP’s terms of service. CEG-TEK’s letters now ask for $250-$300 per download, and they direct the accused downloaders to the “Copyright Settlements” website (http://www.copyrightsettlements.com) with a link which pre-populates the assigned Case Number and Password into the website.

        With the cooperation of the ISPs in forwarding CEG-TEK’s letters to accused downloaders, there is no longer an anonymity barrier between the accused downloaders and the copyright holders as there once was when CEG-TEK would need a court order to access the identities of the accused downloaders. Now, since various ISPs and universities (e.g., Charter, Suddenlink, CenturyLink, Giganews, etc.; NOTE: Comcast, Verizon, and the other big ISPs appear NOT to be working with CEG-TEK for the moment) have been useless in stopping the copyright holders from contacting the account holders, other than hiring a lawyer such as myself to create a buffer between the copyright holders and the accused account holders, internet users should probably be aware of which companies are using this extortion tactic of “we will sue you unless you pay us money for the video you have downloaded.”

        Here is a list I compiled from my own records as to which copyright holders are [at the moment] using Ira Siegel and CEG-TEK to “monetize” their “most pirated” copyrights. I want to point out that I am conflicted as to whether to post this list because the list itself can be deceiving — a title “not” on this list can still be monitored, and by no means am I suggesting that someone avoid these titles and download others. Perhaps by listing which companies are enforcing their copyrights using this extortion-type of “settle or else we’ll sue” method, it might shame the companies into doing something a bit more ethical (e.g., by policing their own copyrights and issuing DMCA takedown letters rather than attacking the downloaders as a means for financial revenue):

        Axel Braun Productions
        – “Batman XXX: A Porn Parody”

        Celestial Inc., DBA Lethal Hardcore
        – Fuck My Mom and Me 17

        Cinderella Distributors Inc.
        – Backdoor To Hollywood 6

        Coast to Coast Video
        – Older Women Younger Men 16

        Combat Zone Inc.
        – Daddy’s Little Princess #2

        Daring Media Group
        – Pretty Woman

        Diabolic
        – Swallowing is Good For You

        Digital Sin, Inc.
        – All About Ashlynn 1
        – Incestuous
        – Little Darlings
        – My Anal School Girl
        – My Plaything Ashlynn Brooke
        – Perfect Little Pussy
        – The Family That Lays Together
        – The Innocence Of Youth #3, #5, #6
        – This Is My First… A Gangbang Movie

        Echo Alpha, Inc. DBA Evil Angel
        – Fetish Fanatic 12
        – Fetish Fuck Dolls 3
        – Raw 16
        – Rocco’s Perfect Slaves 3
        – Rocco’s Young Anal Adventures

        Fallout Films
        – Naughty Girls 2

        Froytal Services Limited DBA Babes (now known as “MG Premium Ltd.”)
        – Abrasador
        – Amatores
        – Dancing With Myself
        – Hearts Racing
        – Love Encounter
        – Raving With Pleasure

        Froytal Services Limited DBA Brazzers (now known as “MG Premium Ltd.”)
        – Dani’s Back and Ready to Play
        – Driving Mrs. Madison Wild
        – I Can Walk!!!
        – Miss Titness America
        – Mommy Got Boobs 15
        – Sharing My Roommate’s Cock (Milfs Like It Big)
        – Slutty Sorority Contest
        – Teens Like It Big 12
        – The Dangers of Working From Home (Kiki Minaj)

        Froytal Services Limited DBA Mofos (now known as “MG Premium Ltd.”)
        – Best Vacation Ever! (Ivy Laine)
        – Cheerleader Fantasy
        – Flashing Gets Her Whatever She Wants
        – Fun And Sex Games
        – I Make It Rain On Your Tits (I Know That Girl; Dillon Harper)
        – Jewels for the Duch-ASS
        – Rub a Dub Gimme a Tug
        – Swinging Slut Buffet

        Froytal Services Limited DBA Twistys (now known as “MG Premium Ltd.”)
        – Burnin’ Luv
        – Cum Over And Taste..

        GGW Direct, LLC DBA “Girls Gone Wild”
        – ALL NEW COLLEGE GIRLS EXPOSED VOL 1
        – ALL NEW COLLEGE GIRLS EXPOSED VOL 2
        – ALL NEW COLLEGE GIRLS EXPOSED VOL 3
        – ALL NEW COLLEGE GIRLS EXPOSED VOL 4
        – ALL NEW COLLEGE GIRLS EXPOSED VOL 5
        – ALL NEW COLLEGE GIRLS EXPOSED VOL 6
        – Baby Bash Live & Uncensored
        – Bad Girls 2
        – BEACH BABES 3
        – BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
        – Best Breasts Ever
        – BEST BREASTS EVER 2
        – Best of Blondes 2
        – Celebrity Look-A-Likes
        – CO-ED TRYOUTS
        – CO-ED TRYOUTS 2
        – CO-ED TRYOUTS 3
        – DADDY’S LITTLE GIRLS
        – Endless Spring Break 3
        – Endless Spring Break 4
        – Endless Spring Break 5
        – Endless Spring Break 6
        – Endless Spring Break 7
        – Endless Spring Break 9
        – Endless Spring Break 10
        – Endless Spring Break 11
        – Endless Spring Break 12
        – Endless Spring Break 13
        – Endless Spring Break 14
        – EXTREME ORGY 1
        – EXTREME ORGY 2
        – EXTREME ORGY 3
        – FIRST TIMERS
        – FIRST TIMERS 2
        – Freshman Class
        – FRESHMAN ORIENTATION 1
        – FRESHMAN ORIENTATION 2
        – FRESHMAN ORIENTATION 3
        – FRESHMAN ORIENTATION 4
        – GGW – Extreme Sex
        – GGW – On Tour 1
        – GGW – On Tour 2
        – GGW – On Tour 3
        – GGW – On Tour 4
        – GGW – On Tour 5
        – GGW – On Tour 6
        – GGW – On Tour 7
        – GGW – On Tour 8
        – GGW – Sweet Young Sex Maniacs
        – GIRL POWER
        – GIRL POWER 2
        – GIRL POWER 3
        – GIRL POWER 4
        – GIRL POWER 5
        – GIRL POWER 6
        – GIRL POWER 7
        – GIRL POWER 8
        – GIRL POWER 8
        – GIRL POWER 9
        – Girls On Girls
        – GIRLS WHO CRAVE SEX
        – GIRLS WHO CRAVE SEX 3
        – Girls Who Like Girls
        – GIRLS WHO LIKE TOYS
        – Horny Cheerleaders
        – HORNY SCHOOL GIRLS
        – HORNY SCHOOL GIRLS 2
        – HORNY SCHOOL GIRLS 3 (PRIVATE TAPES)
        – HORNY SCHOOL GIRLS 4
        – Hottest Texas Coeds
        – ISLAND ORGY
        – MARDI GRAS INVASION
        – My 18th Birthday
        – Road Trip
        – ROCKS AMERICA
        – Sex Race
        – SEX STARVED COLLEGE GIRLS 2
        – SEX STARVED COLLEGE GIRLS 3
        – SEX STARVED COLLEGE GIRLS 4
        – SEX STARVED COLLEGE GIRLS 5
        – SEX STARVED COLLEGE GIRLS 6
        – SEX STARVED COLLEGE GIRLS 7
        – SEX STARVED PANTY RAID
        – Sexiest Moments Ever
        – Sexiest Moments Ever 2
        – SORORITY GIRL ORGY
        – SORORITY GIRL ORGY 2
        – SORORITY GIRL ORGY 3
        – SORORITY GIRL ORGY 4
        – Spring Break 2007
        – SPRING BREAK SEX RIOT
        – The Perfect Pair
        – THE SEIZED VIDEO
        – Ultimate Rush
        – Usually a siterip or a torrent containing 25+ titles.
        – Wild World
        – Wildest Bar in America

        Giant Media Group, Inc. DBA Devil’s Film (they have changed this name more than once, but have kept the “Devil’s Film” trade name.)
        – Ass Full Of Cum 4
        – Best Of Gangland Cream Pie
        – Cum On My Hairy Pussy 2
        – Cum On My Hairy Pussy 16
        – Don’t Tell My Wife I Buttfucked Her Best Friend
        – Gangland 70
        – Gangland 85
        – Gangland Cream Pie 24
        – Gangland Cream Pie 25
        – Gangland Cream Pie 26
        – Gangland Cream Pie 27
        – Gangland Cream Pie 28
        – I Wanna Buttfuck Your Daughter 10
        – My Wife Caught Me Assfucking Her Mother
        – My Wife Caught Me Assfucking Her Mother 2
        – My Wife Caught Me Assfucking Her Mother 5

        Girlfriends Films Inc.
        – I Dream of Jo 4 True Passion
        – Mother Daughter Exchange Club 27
        – Poor Little Shyla 2
        – Tides of Lust
        – Lesbian First Timers
        – Lesbian Seductions 46

        Intense Industries
        – Fucking Your Socks Off

        JM Productions Inc.
        – Suck Off Races 3

        JW Releasing Ltd
        – Kinky Business

        Kick Ass Pictures Inc.
        – Foot Fetish Daily 9

        LFP Internet Group, LLC DBA Hustler
        – Barely Legal 2
        – Barely Legal 16
        – Barely Legal 19
        – Barely Legal 84
        – Barely Legal 100
        – Barely Legal 127
        – Barely Legal 128
        – Barely Legal 131
        – Barely Legal 134
        – Barely Legal 138
        – Barely Legal 139
        – Barely Legal 140
        – Barely Legal Little Runaways
        – Barely Legal: All Stars 5
        – New Wave Hookers
        – The Opening of Misty Beethoven
        – This Ain’t Game of Thrones

        Manwin Content RK Limited DBA Reality Kings (now known as “MG Content RK Limited”)
        – 2 For 1 Pink
        – A Lavish Load
        – Belle Bottom
        – Bouncing Deluca (Big Naturals; Angel Deluca)
        – Cum Hard
        – Dirty Minds
        – Full Figure (Monster Curves; Katie Banks)
        – Getting Hardy
        – Girlfriends Revenge (GF Revenge 6)
        – Hello Alexis
        – Leather and Lace
        – Licking Lessons – Jasmine Wolff (Moms Bang Teens 2013-12-30)
        – Naughty Kennedy – Kennedy Leigh (Moms Bang Teens 2014-01-20)
        – Pussy Love (Money Talks – Esmi & Lily)
        – Riding Riley
        – Ripping Through
        – Sexy All Star
        – Sexy Stella
        – Sweet Veronica
        – Tits and Hips
        – Ass In Heels – Angell Summers (EuroSexParties 2013-05-30)
        – Busty Bikini Babes 1
        – Finger Licking Good
        – Lick It

        Manwin DP Corp. DBA Digital Playground
        – Bad Girls 5
        – Bad Girls 6
        – Bridesmaids
        – Code of Honor
        – Don’t Fuck My Sister
        – For Sale
        – Island Fever 2
        – Island Fever 3
        – Jack Attack 4
        – Jack’s POV 2
        – Jack’s POV 3
        – Jack’s POV 5
        – Jack’s POV 7
        – Jack’s POV 8
        – Jack’s POV 10
        – Jack’s POV 12
        – Jack’s POV 15
        – JACK’S POV 19
        – Jesse Jane Fuck Fantasy
        – Jesse Jane Kiss Kiss
        – Lost and Found
        – Nurses
        – Pink Slip
        – Pirates
        – Raven Alexis The Substitute
        – Riley Steele Deceptions
        – Riley Steele Satisfaction
        – The Girlfriend Exchange
        – Titlicious 2
        – Top Guns
        – unSEXpected
        – Web Whore
        – WHEN DADDY’S AWAY

        Marc Dorcel
        – Cathy 40 (Cheating Housewife)
        – WIFE NEXT DOOR

        Marc Dorcel DBA SBO Pictures, Inc.
        – Orgy Anthology

        SBO Pictures DBA Vouyer Media
        – Jack In Me POV 2

        SBO Pictures DBA Wicked Pictures
        – Daddy Did The Babysitter
        – I Was a Mail Order Bride
        – Octomom: Home Alone
        – Selfies
        – Spacenuts
        – Teen Ravers

        Metro Media Entertainment
        – Cute Little Asses

        Millennium TGA, DBA Grooby Productions
        – Buddy Wood’s Shemale Bedtime Stories

        New Sensations Inc.
        – Almost Heaven
        – Anal Sex Secrets
        – Ashlynn Brooke Is Sexy
        – Big Bang Theory A XXX Parody
        – Big Girls Are Sexy #3
        – Double D Vixens
        – Friends A Xxx Parody
        – I Can’t Believe I’m Doing This (Zeina Heart)
        – I Love Asians 11
        – I Love Asians 5
        – Redheads Are Sexy #5
        – Sexy Student Bodies`
        – WKRP in Cincinnati: A XXX Parody
        – Young Girls With Big Tits 10

        Patrick Collins Inc., DBA Elegant Angel
        – Alexis Texas Is Buttwoman
        – Big Wet Asses #3
        – Big Wet Asses #6
        – Big Wet Asses #7
        – Big Wet Asses 16
        – Cuties 4
        – It’s A Daddy Thing!
        – It’s A Secretary Thing!
        – It’s A Secretary Thing! 2
        – Massive Facials 5
        – Performers Of The Year 2014
        – Real Female Orgasms 10
        – The A Line
        – The Bombshells 5
        – The Greatest Squirters Ever! 4

        Pleasure Productions Inc.
        – Wild Honey 2 (Tera Patrick)

        RLD Distribution LLC
        – Girls Of Red Light District – Sasha Grey
        – I Bang Teens (Megan Salinas)
        – White Dicks Black Chicks

        Second Phase Distribution Inc.
        – Big Butt All Stars – Crystal Clear
        – Mama Turned Me Out 3
        – Mama Turned Me Out 4
        – Mama Turned Me Out 5
        – Pigtail Virgins

        Third Degree Films, Inc.
        – Big Boob Orgy 2
        – Curve Appeal
        – Illegal Ass 2
        – Laid In Lingerie 2
        – Laid in Lingerie 3
        – Spunk’d 7
        – Spunk’d 8
        – Top Ten 2

        Vivid Entertainment LLC
        – Farrah 2 Backdoor and More
        – Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom
        – Kim Kardashian Superstar
        – Raven Alexis Unleashed
        – Raylene’s Dirty Work
        – Tera, Tera, Tera (Tera Patrick)
        – Tila Tequila Backdoored and Squirting
        – Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide to the G-Spot

        White Ghetto Films Inc.
        – Group Sex Junkies

        Zero Tolerance Entertainment
        – Dr. Ava’s Guide to Sensual BDSM For Couples
        – Is Your Mother Home?

        Now obviously you will notice a common theme along each of these copyright holders, and that is the “genre” of content they all produce. You will also notice that in this list there are “copyright trolls,” (meaning, companies who in the past have used or use the federal courts to sue individual downloaders for copyright infringement) and there are “not” copyright trolls (meaning, companies who have NOT sued defendants for copyright infringement). You can see which are copyright trolls by either searching the web for their name, or doing a search on http://www.rfcexpress.com to see whether they have sued in federal court.

        A few things to note.

        1) Many of the larger companies have multiple websites, and do business as multiple entities. For example, Froytal Services Ltd. “does business as” (“DBA”) Mofos and Brazzers (corresponding to their Mofos.com and Brazzers.com websites).

        2) Many copyright holders are OLDER COMPANIES and FAMILY OPERATED BUSINESSES. This means that it is common to have former porn companies hire CEG TEK to track and send letters for “vintage” films from the 1970’s and 1980’s. The copyrights for these films ARE STILL IN EFFECT, and the former owners of those companies are now elder individuals who are now enforcing their copyrights from FORTY YEARS AGO. On the flip side, many older couples have been caught downloading a film from their youth thinking that since the titles were so old, it was probably legal to do so.

        In sum, all I ask of everyone is to understand that the file sharing networks are no longer safe, and when you download something, assume someone else is watching you. And, be aware that there are companies out there like Copyright Enforcement Group (CEG-TEK Int’l) who are waiting to send you a settlement demand letter.


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