We just went after a site that was pirating our video line (asianguys.com videos) and selling on their website in the Japanese section of their website. We went so far as to actually buy the videos from them and verified they were copies as we knew they were not buying from us or our distributors. The crappy part is that we have also been a customer of theirs for years paying ever increasing prices for their Japanese video titles, while at the same time they have been coping and selling ours...
We tried talking to them. We got them to sign an agreement to stop copying our videos in mid august this year, but they persisted. we went after them on several fronts.
1. we contacted verisign concerning violations of their secure site certificate use policy. They indicated their desire to remove their certificate and did so. the offending website got that notice yesterday and called us asking if they could buy some of our videos and pay by check. We told them no.
2. we contacted their web host in Japan, where it is illegal to sell uncensored porn....and their security department is eager to take action.
3. we contacted networksolutions with whom the site registered it's domain, and used a Name server redirect from NSI to point to their nameserver in Japan. NSI shut off the redirect today essentially removing
the domain from the internet until they comply with our copyrights. This effectively shut off the website...at least for now.... probably until they can transfer the domain to a new registrar and get pointed back at their server again, but on a Friday night... who knows... at least they should be down for a few days....
We hope this shot across the bow will get them to either get with the program and start purchasing the videos they are charging $60 to $80 USD per copy for....or at least stop selling our videos.
Interestingly enough, I notified some of the larger companies by phone, and emails in August to the specifics of this company that was pirating their videos and none seemed to really be inclined to take any action. We are talking Falcon, Bel Ami (US righs handled by Colt Videos), Jet Set, Rascal, and more..
Anyway, round 1 goes to the producer.... we are obviously happy that we were at the very least temporarily successful in this pursuit.
