TV Exec Sued for File Sharing...RICH HUNT

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    Marc Juris, the openly gay president of WE TV, was just slapped with a $1.2 million lawsuit from a gay porn company.

    Flava Works, which specializes in x-rated videos featuring models of color, claims Juris joined its site as a member, then downloaded a bunch of videos and illegally uploaded them to file sharing sites like Gay-Torrents.org and GayTorrent.ru. Now, the company wants $1.2 million from him for copyright infringement.

    “Marc Juris was issued a cease-and-desist over alleged sharing and was urged to settle out of court [but he] refused,” Phil Bleicher, CEO of Flava Works, says. “We have ample evidence to prove that its him—from matching emails, IP, logs and usernames—and he continued to share our copyrighted works.”

    Bleicher also says Juris has filed a countersuit under a John Doe pseudonym, claiming Flava Works blackmails its subscribers with frivolous lawsuits and threatening to out them as customers.

    The countersuit, filed Tuesday, reads:

    Capitalizing on the social stigma of its own product, Flava Works has apparently discovered a lucrative side business: extorting money from former subscribers by threatening to expose them as consumers of gay porn.
    Even if the accusation is false, most users reluctantly pay rather than be outed in court documents as a gay porn user—especially if the victim has chosen to keep his sexual orientation private.

    Bleicher says the countersuit it total B.S. He’s also hellbent on making Juris (and others) pay for his alleged offenses.

    “Flava Works models and staff spend countless hours producing our high quality videos and images only to have a few people steal them and distribute to these illegal file sharing websites,” he says. “This will stop, one lawsuit at a time.”
     
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    Yeah Phil used to visit Discreet City back in the day, not sure if he still visits Cypher Avenue...He liked our posts about his former "models" going to jail/prison... We had/have a firm stance against advertising porn sites in banners/sidebars so I think he maybe lost interest in the site eventually.

    But he's infamously known as quick to sue people uploading vids on the torrent sites. He even sued some of his former models that apparently signed "exclusive" deals with Flavaworks yet still worked with other companies. Even even has contracts that say they can't use the porn names they used with him any where else.

    Seems excessive but I guess with so much competitive free porn out there you have to protect your investments/income as much as possible.
     
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    This Phil guy sounds like a piece of work, to say the least. While I think this is 100% based on Juris being rich (in a time where pron companies aren't as profitable), there is kinda something to be said for him being dumb enough to have a paper trail that leads directly to him, given his platform.

    On a sidenote, I didn't even know flavaworks was still making videos, let alone, that ppl were out here searching for them. Ijs...
     
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    Yes. Flavor Works has a tube site. It's where they throw all of their Night Cam vids of you know them old folks like Chance Jacobs, Sno Bunni, DeAngelo Jackson...etc.
     
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    This vod site?
     
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    T be talking bout something else...I think it's called FlavaTube but it's not VOD. It's a membership thing and I remember signing up like a year back to check it out and they had categories and one was cocodorm and they had all.of them night vision vids with them folks I name and others I never heard of..lol
     
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    I can't imagine that a network president would have the time to download and upload pornography to torrent sites...but like the original article states, this may be a form of blackmail since Phil likely has enough evidence to prove that the guy merely had an account and access to the site.

    As a dude who visits the gay torrent sites listed in the post, its not really about "searching" for the vids...they just kinda show up in a stream of other stuff...If black gay porn is your thing, it def stands out in the sea of pale skin in the preview thumbnails.
     
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    Gotcha. Cus I was like, doesn't he have better things to do?! Def sounds like a money grab to me.

    And I didn't even know about these torrent sites. It's always straight to myvidster for me. Every color man under the sun.
     
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