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TITAN MEDIA WINS $ 1.2 MILLION DOLLAR JUDGEMENT FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
By: Keith Witchka, Staff Writer 04/14/08 12:00 a.m. PDT
Multi Award winning studio Titan Media and their Exclusive wholesale distributor Io Group Distribution, have a won the first ever major judgment for copyright infringement for an astounding amount of $ 1.2 Million dollars against Gilbert Michael Gonzales and 21 additional defendants this past Thursday.
“This is yet another victory for not only Titan, but the entire adult industry. The ruling is a huge blow to online piracy blogs,” Titan Media Vice President Keith Webb said. 
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Keith continued...“You can run and hide but in the end, everything you do online can be traced back to you,” Webb added. “We were able to subpoena ISPs and track the IP address and individual identity of each person on the pirate blog [who was] posting and distributing our films. Once again, the message is clear — if you steal and pirate Titan films, you will be caught and you will be prosecuted.”
Titan Media and Io Group filed the lawsuit against Gilbert Michael Gonzales and 21 additional defendants last September in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The 22 defendants with Gilbert Michael Gonzales leading the pack, were being sued for being the ring leader in a piracy ring that used free hosting web sites, blogspot.com, ning.com and rapidshare.com to air more than 45 gay xxx feature films under the Titan Media label.
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Titan Media estimated that the ring might be responsible for more than 100,000 illegal downloads of Titan material, including full-length videos, as well as video extras and behind-the scenes footage segments.
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The award is as follows for Titan Media and Io Group Distribution; U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel award the sum of $25,000 per title for 17 titles. However, the judge then tripled the amount of damages per title, because she found that the infringement was “willful."
