How Porno Downloaders Are Shamed into Paying Cash to Keep Their Names Clean
You do n’t pay up for porn . That ’s a trouble for pornographers , butaces for erotica copyright trolls like John Steele , attorney at law . Buzzfeed take a deep look into how they squeeze money out of porn torrenting cases , whether you downloaded anything or not . For a point of reference , here ’s , fundamentally , how the operation works : The introductory mechanism is thus : key out a porno that has been uploaded to BitTorrent ; make a list of IP addresses that uploaded the plastic film ; subpoena the names behind the IP savoir-faire ; send out mannequin letters take for a settlement to make ( awkward ) alleged wrongfulness go away ; threaten a lawsuit otherwise ; rinsing and repeat ....