FraternityX piracy warning on new film
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Curious if anyone noticed this on "Smoking Cock" which is circulating including here:
hXXps://www.gay-torrents.net/torrentdetails.php?torrentid=0f2161b1fe8c471bd030d9b078dbc28faf7db14e4344e524
Every few minutes a screen pops up stating it was illegally downloaded and it gives the person's login ID as well as their IP address, certainly something I've never seen before. Another reason to always use a VPN, even if you're using a found password. -
Here is a snapshot of what you saw –- it was on the .mov file format of this film.
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That is pretty bad.
However even what OP suggested wouldn't really help in this instance. The VPN will give a different IP but your username will be very useful to identify you based on the billing information you have provided in the site.
Now if this user's account was hacked/cracked then he will be in trouble for somebody else screw up.
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What came to my mind immediately was the huge Flava Works judgment against a man for uploading 10 of their films to the tune of $150K per film = $1.5 million. They had embedded unique codes in the films:
hXXp://operationgaga.com/topic/7799-american-court-awards-15-million-in-damages-to-gay-porn-piracy-case/
What I found incredulous were the comments expressing annoyance rather than concern about this on one of the other torrent sites:
hXXps://gay-torrents.org/details.php?id=f5fc0603c518cd2ff5cb0921f3dd1688366ca452
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Does this version have those annoying piracy warnings flashing throughout the video like the .mov version already uploaded?Quote
Privacy warnings are bean cut out.Quote
Thanks very much for the effort of cutting out the warnings. This and the other one needed someone with scissorsI once "traded" a pay site password at an exchange site and got an email from the porn company showing me hundreds of IP addresses that had all tried to log on using my now deactivated login and pass. Whether they can do anything about it is another question.
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That 1.5 million judgement was a default judgement as the accused did not show up (respectively his lawyer) and defended himself. So the accusation got the only word …
but yes, that will likely become expensive, even if with a settlement before it is going to court or to pay a good lawyer.
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I can finish off the mystery of this thread.
Yes, that torrent was posted at GT.net. We have since confirmed that the person who uploaded is one of the chief honchos at the company that owns Frat X. He crudely doctored his company's own video, perhaps to fake some sophisticated tracking system that does not in reality exist, and posted the clip himself with fake warnings at tube/file hosting and various (not just GT.net) torrent sites.
So, no member at Frat X has been caught out with this. This torrent was entirely fake. It seems to be a warning to their own members not to capture these clips and post them. Let's see how successful that is in reality.
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Fascinating stuff, but to me, it goes at the heart of torrents and the like. Namely, would I actually buy their stuff, with so many fuglies in it? Right now I have P90X coming to me through the Interlibrary system. If it's any good, it's easy enough to dupe. Would I drop $140 on this if that was the only option? Absolutely not.
I'd be curious to know what kind of tracking system was in place that enabled Flava Works to successfully sue for $1.5 million (whether they get it or not is another question).
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I think the real question at Frat X is this: would you pay $40 per month subscription, for 2 new clips a month, that you can only stream and not save to your hard disk?
You can decide if that is good value…
On Flava, I have it on good authority that they do actually watermark their clips, so they can identify precisely which of their members share their stuff to the world. Assuming, of course that their members don't use fake email addresses, VPNs, and that they do use anonymous pre-pay credit cards. How they actually embed the codes, I have no idea. But it is expensive for companies to do this.