DALLAS—Lucas Entertainment has filed a second lawsuit alleging a group of John Does made unauthorized copies of one of its gay adult films and is sharing the files via BitTorrent index Gay-Torrents.net.
Filed Aug. 9 in United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, the suit identifies 53 alleged pirates by the IP addresses they used to access the torrent site. Lucas seeks monetary damages and a permanent injunction barring the defendants from infringing any of Lucas’ copyrights.
Like its predecessor, filed in the same court July 19 against 65 alleged infringers of the Lucas title Missing, the new suit targets pirates of a specific Lucas film but stops short of naming the torrent index as a defendant. Kings of New York is the subject of the new lawsuit.
Court documents in both cases indicate more suits and additional defendants may be forthcoming, as “monitoring of online infringement of Plaintiff’s motion picture is ongoing.”
The Lucas Entertainment legal machine appears to be in a hurry to conclude its affairs with the defendants. Court documents in the most recent case indicate infringing activity was detected Aug. 5 and 6. The case was filed Aug. 9, and Lucas attorneys have asked the court to force the internet service providers who administer the defendants’ IP addresses to identify the individuals involved within 15 days.
Lucas representatives declined to comment about the case except to relay a brief statement by President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Lucas reiterating the assertion he made upon filing the July 19 lawsuit: "I stand by my previous comment that many sites are responsive and take down content once notified of a copyright infringement. Unfortunately, some are not and we have decided to take an assertive approach with the more difficult sites and their users. We appreciate our fans wherever they are, but business is business and we have to make some money off our content."
