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PITBULL PRODUCTIONS INC SUES AGAIN TO PROTECT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
By: Jeff Livingston, Staff Writer - 12-10-09 - 1:08 p.m. PDT
Federal Court dockets complaint against popular magazine web site www.thugstatus.com for illegal postings of Pitbull Productions’ DVDs and intellectual property; 3 file-sharing and 1 ISP also served DMCA notices as part of a lawsuit filed against the web site and owners.
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Pitbull Productions announced today that they filed a complaint with the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York against www.ThugStatus.com and its owners to stop defendants from continuing to encourage, enable and profit from the infringement of Pitbull Productions, Inc. copyrights, trademarks and trade dress on the internet.
ThugStatus.com has developed and controls a network largely dedicated to the repeated and exploitative unauthorized distribution and reproduction of Pitbull Productions, Inc. works.
Thugstatus.com provides their users with a fully integrated infrastructure that connects them to infringing digital files.
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The web site even encourages users to infringe through a point system that gives users more access according to the number of movies they upload. Defendants are building a business based on the daily massive infringement that they enable and encourage. Thugstatus.com’s conduct has caused and continues to cause Pitbull Productions, Inc. grave and irreparable harm.
A representative from Pitbull Productions, Inc. (www.pitbullproductions.com) became aware of postings of entire Pitbull Productions, Inc. videos on the ThugStatus.com web site last week. The content, including images, trademarks and videos, is intended for users to download for free while defendants profit from advertisers.
“Pitbull Productions has always been in the forefront in the gay adult entertainment industry of enforcing all rights for its intellectual properties,” Bruce Flemming, Pitbull’s spokesperson said.
“We have filed more than 13 lawsuits in Federal Courts all across the United States the past 5 years enforcing our rights, suing for damages and ensuring that nobody gets away with stealing our content.”
We attempted to contact representatives of Thugstatus.com for comment but did not receive any feedback prior to the posting of this article.
