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CORBIN FISHER WINS $ 1.75 MILLION DOLLAR JUDGEMENT IN PIRACY CASE
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer - 06-10-10 - 4:00 p.m. PDT
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A federal court has awarded parent company Liberty Media Holdings, LLC, of gay adult studio Corbin Fisher, a $1.75 million default judgment against Eric Brown who is one of the defendants in the Corbin Fisher copyright infringement case that was filed back in December of 2009.In addition to holding Eric Brown liable for the $1.75 million in punitive damages, the judge in the case also held him liable for 70 counts of willful infringement and also included a permanent injunction against future theft/burning of content that was posted on his membership web sites.
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Corbin Fisher Chief Operating Officer Brain Dunlap does admit that Liberty Media Holdings is unlikely to collect the full amount of the award. Dunlap adds the message that this judgment sends is clear and firm one. "The message this judgment should send to online content pirates is that there are two very likely outcomes to your illegal activities: considerable legal fees and even greater judgments against you from the courts," he said.
"However a content pirate might justify their behavior, the courts are ready and willing to uphold the law, decide on behalf of the intellectual property holders, and hit them with massive judgments. Content thieves can not, and will never benefit from their illegal activity to the degree a court will hold them liable for that activity - in other words, the rewards simply will not justify the costs. Mr. Brown surely knows that now."
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"Here is a man who felt he could get away with stealing from us, and felt he could do so free of consequence, with nothing but his own financial benefit being the outcome," Dunlap added. "Now, however, he'll have this judgment hanging over him and his credit, and spend countless years dealing with our efforts to collect on what the courts determined we are entitled to."
Brown, a Pittsburgh resident, allegedly ran his own counterfeit DVD operation and was named as a co-defendant in the case that involves several individuals using eBay to sell and distribute the studio’s pirated content. Corbin Fisher said in the suit that defendants illegally manufactured hundreds, if not thousands, of counterfeit DVDs of no less than 136 Corbin Fisher videos altogether.
Corbin Fisher stated in the lawsuit that some of the eBay advertisements were so brazen that they directed potential customers to the CorbinFisher.com web site. That is bold! This is the second judgment in the case awarded to Liberty Media Holdings' Corbin Fisher brand. In February [2010], Corbin Fisher won a whopping $990,000 judgment against Texas entrepreneur A.D. Trice who allegedly burned 66 Corbin Fisher videos to DVD and sold them on eBay.
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