SEATTLE — For the second time in recent weeks, Pornhub parent company Aylo has prevailed in a copyright infringement case against sites pirating its content.
On Friday, Judge Kymberly K. Evanson of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington granted Aylo’s motion for default judgment in Aylo Premium Ltd v. Popravkin Anton, after the defendant failed to respond to the suit.
Aylo filed its complaint in February 2025, alleging that Anton owned and operated websites “trafficking tens of thousands of pirated works,” including more than 9,000 registered works owned by Aylo, and had failed to comply with DMCA takedown notices.
Aylo sought $15,000 in statutory damages per work infringed, though the Copyright Act allows for 10 times as much in cases where infringement is “committed willfully.” However, the court awarded $10,000 per infringed work, describing this as “in line with awards in similar cases.” The total award comes to slightly more than $90 million in statutory damages, plus $19,360 in attorney’s fees and $990 in costs.
The court also granted Aylo’s request to have Anton’s infringing website domains transferred to Aylo’s control. The order lists those sites as 3prn.com, freshporno.net, frprn.com, homexvideo.com, kojka.com, mojva.com, onlineporno.cc and pornheal.com.
In December, another judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled in favor of Aylo in Aylo Premium Ltd v. Alex Abdullaev and John Does 1-20. In that case, the complaint, filed in May 2025, asserted that the defendants were trafficking tens of thousands of pirated works, including 2,040 registered works owned by Aylo, across dozens of domain names as part of “a coordinated network of infringing websites” under the “PornXP” brand. In a similar default judgment, the court granted Aylo $5,000 per infringing work, for a total of more than $10 million, and required that the infringing domain names be transferred to Aylo.
