LOS ANGELES—Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub.com, won a federal lawsuit against the ownership group behind PornXP, a controversial adult tube website long accused of stealing content from premium studios and pay sites.
PornXP, owned and/or operated by individuals from Kyrgyzstan, was sued by attorneys for the Montreal-based pornography giant for alleged copyright infringement.
Torrent Freak reports that U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle of the Western District of Washington ordered the operator of the website to pay over $10 million to Aylo, including the transfer of ownership of dozens of domain names from popular registries like Porkbun, NameSilo, and Netim.
AVN reported last summer on the lawsuit filed against PornXP, confirming that pirated content from premium Aylo brands, like Brazzers, appeared on their website.
The initial legal complaint noted that PornXP.com owns well over 30 domain names. To quash this piracy, Aylo's attorneys asked the federal court to mandate the transfer of these domains and the website's assets to Aylo's digital divisions.Â
This request only comes after Aylo's legal department reportedly made around 680,000 DMCA takedown demands targeting PornXP for copyright infringement. They also filed 2.1 million DMCA notices to Google and other search engines requesting the removal of the offending webpages from search results, per AVN's reporting.
