Adult verification and content provider J.M. Productions is accusing AdultBouncer.com of distributing J.M. content without a license, and is asking AdultBouncer.com Webmasters and affiliates to cease and desist to avoid being named in an intended lawsuit.
J.M. Productions told AVN.com October 13 that the suit has yet to be filed because more legwork needs to be done, but an unnamed party brought to the company's attention that an AdultBouncer.com affiliate had shown some of J.M.'s adult movies, which the company said it has not licensed to show online.
The J.M. titles in question, are Assy 6, Gag Factor 5, The Violation of Aurora Snow, The Violation of Briana Banks, The Violation of Katie Gold, The Violation of Kiki Daire, and Perverted Stories 34-36.
"I'm fed up with these people stealing my content," J.M. owner Jeff Stewart said when reached for comment. "And I want to make an example out of them."
J.M.'s attorney, Al Gelbart, said when reached for comment that a formal cease-and-desist demand was sent to AdultBouncer.com, "but they haven't responded, so we will be filing the appropriate federal actions," Gelbart said. Neither was AdultBouncer.com available for comment when reached by AVN.com October 13.
But Gelbart also said J.M. is not looking to target or even punish AdultBouncer affiliates who showed the content without realizing it wasn't licensed for online showing or downloading. All the company wants in that regard, Gelbart said, was for any of those affiliates to come forward about the source of the material.
"I think (the word) has just gone out," Gelbart said, "so we haven't heard back from anybody just yet. But it would certainly make it easier if the affiliates would come forward and talk to us. If an affiliate is truthfully an innocent infringer, and they thought they were properly licensing this material and they take it down, it's not our intention of punishing an innocent infringer. But if they keep it up there and make it harder for us to find who the real sources of the problem are, we're going to look at them for contributory infringement."
Neither Stewart nor Gelbart could say precisely when the lawsuit would be filed in court.
