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Hi, came across this article online…do i have to worry about using gaytorrent.ru?

Bits Torrents users are in for a little extortion. You've been warned!
Chicago lawyer leads fight against porn piracy

More than a dozen pornography studios are using a Chicago attorney to launch an attempted crackdown on the illegal online sharing of their movies, borrowing a page from the controversial campaign launched this year by the Hollywood makers of "The Hurt Locker" to go after thousands of alleged copyright violators.

John Steele, 39, dubbed a "pirate slayer" recently by an adult-video trade publication, has filed the first seven of what he expects will be 10 lawsuits this year, each potentially targeting thousands of people. It's the first time that type of lawsuit has been filed here, copyright attorneys said. Federal judges here have so far ordered Internet service providers to turn over the names of around 3,000 customers.

The legal technique of filing " John Doe" lawsuits naming thousands of defendants from across the country has come under fire from privacy groups. They question what they call the heavy-handed tactic of going after BitTorrent users who typically lack an attorney, often live in a different state than where the lawsuit is filed and fear the embarrassment of being named in a court file as having downloaded pornography.

Such lawsuits drew headlines last spring when the producers of "The Hurt Locker," this year's best-picture Oscar winner, went after thousands of BitTorrent users in a case filed in Washington.

"It's a fundamentally unfair process," said Corynne McSherry, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which intervened in the "The Hurt Locker" case. "And there is the added reason that they're going to be named as a person who downloaded porn. Some of it is gay and lesbian porn, and not everybody is out about their preferences."

Steele said judges have upheld the technique, which he said is the only feasible way to go after so many defendants.
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