NJ.com: Porn company is suing hundreds of New Jersey residents. Is it extortion?

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Having filed hundreds of lawsuits in just the first two months of 2019, Strike 3 Holdings, LLC has drawn a lot of attention.

NJ.com wrote an article on January 28, 2019:

“A maker of “high-end, artistic” pornography is coming after hundreds of New Jersey residents it claims are illegally downloading its adult films.

Strike 3 Holdings LLC, owner of subscription porn sites like Vixen and Tushy, says it sues people in the Garden State and across the country simply to protect its copyrighted content.

Opponents say it’s a shakedown scheme.

Strike 3 is just the latest pornography company to use the prolific litigation strategy to generate income. Adult film company Malibu Media has been doing it for nearly seven years. Together, they’ve filed over 1,000 suits in New Jersey and nearly 10,000 nationwide.

Their M.O. is the same: Find alleged porn pirates on BitTorrent, file thousands of nearly-identical lawsuits and demand damages of at least $150,000. But the companies are eager to settle, often for $10,000 to $20,000, according to defense attorneys who have worked the cases.”

The article goes on to note that at the time this article was published Strike 3 Holdings had 2,514 suits across the United States with 277 cases in New Jersey alone, while Malibu Media (another adult film company and prolific copyright infringement filer) had 7,359 suits in the US, 777 of those in New Jersey.  The majority of all Strike 3 Holdings Lawsuits have occurred in New York, California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, although they have filed lawsuits in 33 states.

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