Porn site Flava Works ordered to liquidate
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Quick read:
Miami-based Flava Works (formerly Chicago-based, and owner of several gay porn sites, including: CocoDorm, MixItUpBoy, RawRods, & PapiCock, among others) has been ordered by a Miami Federal Court to liquidate its assets (including IP) to pay Adam4Adam the monies due as a result of a lawsuit. This is a "final action" taken by the court because Flava Works has consistently delayed and otherwise defied prior court orders.Details:
Back in 2014, the owners of FlavaWorks filed suite against Adam4Adam.com (a gay hookup site, as-if you didn't already know that!) alleging copyright infringement - specifically that Adam4Adam was using their (FlavaWorks) content in advertising, promotions, and other online content for Adam4Adam.FlavaWorks further claimed that multiple DMCA notices were filed with Adam4Adam and were ignored.
Long story short, FlavaWorks lost in court - badly. Further, the court awarded Adam4Adam court costs (that's a very bad sign). But as-if that wasn't bad enough - FlavaWorks essentially ignored the court awards and judgements, then thought that playing musical lawyers (6 different attys since 2014) would let them continually delay... it didn't work.
In 2019, out of frustration, A4A filed for a "seize and sell" order to get what they were due from the earlier court judgements, which the court has now granted, as-of this past July (2021). [Courts DO NOT move quickly!]
Needless to say, FlavaWorks is appealing... the owner released a statement to the effect that they are trying to "clean up this mess, not going out of business and have filed Chapter 11 to reorganize these" debts. (NOTE: the actual quote said "reorganize these debits", but that's a word-choice error).
Stay tuned - but if I was a paying subscriber to those sites, I might be worried about my investment there...
