Titan Media Wins $1.3M Judgment Against Streaming Porn Site

Gay porn giant Titan Media has won a $1.3M copyright infringement judgment (NSFW) against a streaming porn site that was posting clips from their films.

A U.S. District Court has awarded Titan Media more than $1.35 million in damages from a tube-site operator whose users infringed the gay adult studio’s intellectual property rights. In addition, Judge Maxine M. Chesney issued a permanent injunction barring Antelope Media LLC and its owners, representatives and subsidiaries from making any further infringing use of Titan’s property to line their own pockets with advertising revenues and membership fees. In order to give Titan an opportunity to collect on the summary judgment—rendered in default after the defendants failed to respond to Titan’s lawsuit—Chesney also permanently enjoined Antelope and its associates from transferring domain names and proceeds from domain operations until the judgment has been satisfied in full. “This ruling clearly shows that the financial and monetary benefits of advertising, affiliate program commissions, and charging membership fee for access quashes the tube sites’ defense as an internet service provider,” Titan Vice President Keith Webb said. “Once you profit directly from the infringement, you become liable for the infringement itself. “Without income streams adult tube sites cannot survive,” he added. “With income streams they become liable for the content they are profiting from. Doesn’t sound like a very good position to be in these days.”

According to the linked story, the operators of MonsterCockTube.com are German nationals who have repeatedly created shell companies to hide from Titan Media. They also own the affiliate service, AlphaMaleCash.