TACOMA, Wash. — MG Premium, a MindGeek company described by their lawyers as "among the world's leading providers of adult entertainment content," has filed a complaint for damages and injunctive relief against the operators of YesPornPlease.com and VShare.io.
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 complaint includes 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.
"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, both allegedly infringing websites were down, although YesPornPlease immediately rerouted to a mirror page with the following notice:
"This page is currently offline. However, because the site uses Cloudflare's Always Online technology, you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will automatically be served the live version."
Cloudflare, a leading content distribution network, was targeted by MindGeek last year in an attempt to uncover people using their services to conceal their identities.