The Smoking Gun--A “promising young college student” at Purdue University wants a federal judge to quash a subpoena that seeks to attach a name to an IP address to which a copy of the porno film “Illegal Ass 2” was downloaded late last year. The 19-year-old Boilermaker--identified only as “Doe 26” in court filings--filed a motion Friday seeking to keep Third Degree Films, a major distributor of adult films, from obtaining their name from the Indiana school. In a bid to identify those who have improperly downloaded its films from BitTorrent sites, Third Degree last year filed a lawsuit against more than 2000 “Doe” defendants known only by their respective IP addresses. A U.S. District Court judge in California signed an order permitting the film company to serve subpoenas on Internet service providers so that the firm could match up names to IP addresses. One of those subpoenas was served on Purdue to determine
who downloaded “Illegal Ass 2” on October 10 at 7:33 PM. The X-rated film stars Sasha Grey, one of porn’s best-known actresses, who has also appeared in HBO’s “Entourage” and director Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 movie “The Girlfriend Experience.” Grey is pictured below.
Honestly, this is a pretty fair punishment. And Bravo to the porn industry, they're not out there like the record labels hunting for huge pay days by suing some liberal arts english major like $75K for downloading a few indie albums no one would have otherwise had ever heard. Nope, in Porn apparently, whats fair is fair. You want to illegally steal their films, fine, but be prepared to be outted publicly for it.
It's kind of like the good old days in England where petty criminals would spend a day in the stocks, neighbors laughing at them and throwing rotten tomatoes and other garbage at their faces. This is pretty much the same thing, except with neighbors, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, employers, and girls in your school knowing that you celebrate the whole Illegal Ass catalog, episodes 1-83.
Most awkward part of this story, you know the kid's roommate is sitting there trying to figure out if he was in the room that night...that'll create some tension. You come home from a party and drunkenly pass out while your roommate gets his rocks off like 8 feet away in the glow of his computer while dl'ing illegal ass porn. Safe to say these guys haven't been eating at the cafe together since this whole incident came to light.
