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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