Gay Site charging money for pirated content -See if it's yours
Hi guys. I saw on another board some info about a site that is charging for memberships yet all the content is stolen from our sites. It's called www.itsallgay.com.
Look to see if your stuff is on it and if so, here's what you can do.
The name of the company is Mash & New Ltd.
The payment processor they are using is http://www.segpay.com/
Contact Kristie at kgreer@segpay.com with links to each of your pirated videos and copy the email to fraud@segpay.com. She will use this information to get segpay to drop the account. Make sure to put your proper company and contact info in the email so she can contact you with any questions if need be. Their phone number is 1-800-996-0398 but I think Kristie is the one taking care of this case specifically.
The hosting company is Reflected (http://www.reflected.net/)
They are out of Chicago and their abuse number is 1-877-888-3800 and the DMCA email address is dmca@reflected.net.
I'm sure you all know how to send a proper DMCA notice. We can get this guy shut down by the end of today if we all pull together.
If everyone here who's content is on this guy's site contacts Kristy and Reflected asap we can get this site shut down today. I suggest we also post back here when we're done. Then we can keep track of how many companies have complained so they can't say they didn't get enough response about this.
Known Identities of Pirates
I was looking through this site and found a few scenes of mine on here, mostly from JizzAddiction.com. In looking through the profiles of the people posting the scenes, I have been able to identify 2 of the posters so far. I also have identified a guy that posts on Rapid Share all the time. He has ceased posting my material but he's still very active posting a lot of other companies work.
I have a couple questions which I should probably direct toward smy lawyer, but I'll run them by anyone here first - 1) If I were to share the information I have of the people posting that I gleaned from my billing records, am I violating any privacy laws? If not.... 2) Would it be of value to file suit against these people and try and get some press out of it to persuade the would be casual pirate to thinking twice about posting stuff? And if so.... 3) Would anyone else whose copyrights these pirates have infringed on be interested in going after them with me? Some of the companies involved are EnglishLads.com, BoyFun.com, BoyStation.net, BuzzWest.com, Chaosmen, among others...
Thanks in advance for any info/ideas/suggestions you might have!
Zak