Since you obviously don't have a model release and have no way of proving her age, you'd be in hot water. You might not go to jail for it, but it would seriously fuck up your life. Of course if we really wanted to be dicks about this, we can just file a complaint against you with your local police department and tell them we believe you are posting pictures of children under the age of eighteen. We go to court over copyright issues on a weekly basis.īuss explained to Attrition the legal process Lightspeed's lawyers would use to go after Attrition, and that they might want to make it easy on themselves.

Not only do we own the copyright on 'ALL' Tawnee Stone pictures, but we also own her trademarked name. However, this is only a matter of filing a document in a courthouse.

You are right We do need to prove we have ownership. And they were.īuss/Lightspeed responded to Attrition saying, Tawnee Stone's content is also named in the current 'Doe' filing and IP address supoenas which involve defendant Comcast.īut back in 2003 when asked for a link or attachment supporting Lightspeed's copyright claim, Buss went postal with Lightspeed's legal threats.Īttriton 'went postal' as well, notifying Lightspeed/Buss that all e-mails would be published. In 2003, Buss and Lightspeed's attorney Robert Apgood tangled with security bloggers at over an alleged 'stolen' photo of Lightspeed's contract star Tawnee Stone that was found on Attrition's website. When Buss (aka 'rochard') obtained personal information on people he believed has violated Lightspeed's ownership of porn content in the past, it was handled with a personal touch. Lightspeed's curious history with copyright - and hackersįor five years Lightspeed's (now former) VP of Operations Richard Buss worked with Lightspeed's lawyers to enforce copyright and IP. The physical letters sent out also include a convenient credit card payment form that can be mailed back to Prenda. When Prenda gets info associated with an IP, they call or mail the indivdual and attempt to wrestle $3-4,000 out of the target. They actually want to harvest settlements of several thousand dollars each from individual Internet service subscribers to be identified from a list of approximately 6600 IP addresses (.)Īccording to letters that have been published online by people who have been identified by Lightspeed as alleged bad guys, the threats Lightspeed holds over people's heads are the fear of legal costs - and as with all porn IP shaekdowns, an underlying expectation of shame by public association with porn content. Clair County, nor are they interested in any discovery pertinent to those claims. Lightspeed and its lawyers aren't really interested in pursuing their claims against a single individual in St. When AT&T and Verizon successfully fought back against Lightspeed's subpoenas, the companies had said, Lightspeed 'hired' a company called Arcadia Data Security Consultants (which, conveniently, shares an address with Lightspeed and its owner, Steve Jones) to identify the culprits. (.) Lightspeed alleged that thousands of people 'belong to a hacking community where hacked passwords are passed back and forth among the members.'

Lee explains why he thinks Lightspeed is accusing thousands of people of hacking into their Web sites instead of the usual copyright infringement claims, Lightspeed wants the identities of everyone behind the IP addresses it has collected - at any cost. Prenda/Lightspeed concluded that 'These vicious efforts' (are) 'all perpetrated from the shadow of Internet anonymity.' In addition to executing denial of service attacks on Lightspeed's website properties, the hacking communities have posted names and photos of Mr. In its opposition bid insisting it needs the identities, Lightspeed says there is a 'master hacker' behind it all, who is the 'worst of the worst' and runs a blog called 'World's Biggest Hackers' - and that they're out to get him:įinally, the hacking community has targeted Plaintiff for retribution (under the cover of anonymous IP addresses of course). The ISPs now stand accused of 'negligence, computer fraud and abuse, civil conspiracy, violations of the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practice Act, and aiding and abetting. Lightspeed's response to this setback? It added AT&T and Comcast as defendants in its lawsuit.

In July, the Illinois Supreme Court sided with the ISPs and quashed the subpoenas. AT&T and Comcast objected to these subpoenas. Prenda Law (.) issued subpoenas seeking the identity of 6,600 people. Jones said his standard reply to such criticism is: 'I'm sorry my porn stars don't look used up yet.' 'He's caught a lot of flak because some people feel he makes them look younger than' 18, said Farrell Timlake, president of adult-video publisher Homegrown Video. Lightspeed Media publishes photos and videos of youthful models, and has long used terms such as 'barely legal' and 'barely 18' in its marketing.

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