{"id":68900,"date":"2022-11-24T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T09:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=68900"},"modified":"2022-11-24T09:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T09:01:13","slug":"google-ordered-to-remove-pirate-site-domains-from-u-s-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=68900","title":{"rendered":"Google Ordered to Remove Pirate Site Domains From U.S. Search Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pirate<\/a>Legal action filed last week by two Arizona-based companies aims to prevent pirate sites distributing their content. That\u2019s not unusual in itself but the case is far from ordinary.<\/p>\n

Founded in 2005, CP Productions, Inc. produces adult entertainment media and uses its own website for distribution. Fornix Holdings, Inc. handles intellectual property matters for CP Productions and to date has registered 157 videos at the U.S. Copyright Office. <\/p>\n

Both companies are owned by Arizona resident David Graves who appears to manage everything from production to his companies\u2019 anti-piracy efforts.<\/p>\n

At a district court in Arizona on November 15, Fornix Holdings and CP Productions filed an ex parte<\/em> application for a temporary restraining order (tro) and preliminary injunction. The goal was to quickly end infringement on several pirate websites where CP Productions\u2019 videos were offered illegally for free.<\/p>\n

Piracy is a common issue in the U.S. affecting thousands of content-producing companies. What stands out in this case are the far-reaching demands on extremely short notice. That the court authorized strict anti-piracy measures in a matter of days is noteworthy too, especially given some of the unusual features of the case.<\/p>\n

Declaration in Support of TRO<\/h2>\n

The core of the TRO application is straightforward. As laid out in David Graves\u2019 declaration, the website DaftSex.com links to 1,734 pirated copies of CP Productions videos. Two other domains, daftsex.tv and daftsex.porn, redirect to DaftSex.com.<\/p>\n

A second website, Pornwild.com, began offering CP Productions\u2019 videos around May 2022, again without permission. Graves says the site links to 1,339 infringing videos while two other websites, Pornwild.to and Pornwild-to.nicepornproxy.com, redirect to Pornwild.com.<\/p>\n

Through content-monitoring companies, Graves sent over 1,700 takedown notices to DaftSex.com, to an email address that used to appear on the site but no longer does. The 1,600 takedowns sent to Pornwild.com were sent to a withheldforprivacy.com address listed in the domain\u2019s WHOIS records. Graves says no responses from the sites were ever received.<\/p>\n

Application for TRO\/Preliminary Injunction<\/h2>\n

In their preliminary statement, Fornix and CP note that since the operators of DaftSex.com and Pornwild.com concealed their identities, they are listed as Doe #1 and Doe #2 in their application. There\u2019s no reference in the application but PornHub owner MindGeek actually made Doe #1\u2019s identity public<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n

To overcome their identification problems, the applicants named EasyDNS, Namecheap and Cloudflare as defendants in the case. And since it \u201cprovides a search service that returns Defendant John Does\u2019 sites\u201d in response to certain searches, Google was also named as a defendant.<\/p>\n

At this point readers will recall that MG Premium, a subsidiary of Pornhub-owner MindGeek, won a $32 million judgment<\/a> against the operator of Daftsex.com on November 7, 2022.<\/p>\n

Fornix and CP\u2019s application for a temporary restraining order against DaftSex and Pornwild was filed on November 15. That\u2019s more than a week after MG Premium won its own case against DaftSex and an injunction requiring Verisign to hand over the DaftSex.com domain to MG Premium. <\/p>\n

Already under new ownership, DaftSex.com now redirects to RedTube, another platform owned by MindGeek.<\/p>\n

Applicants Demand Everything \u2013 and More<\/h2>\n

To prevent the operators of DaftSex and PornWild from knowing about the case, Fornix and CP requested an ex parte<\/em> restraining order in the face of \u201cwillful and ongoing infringing conduct.\u201d Their demands included the following:<\/p>\n