Moniker Privacy Services Named in Lawsuit Against Top Porn Site

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

More proof that providing whois proxy services isn’t free.

Remember when a Miami blog suggested that Moniker provided child porn?

Now Moniker is named in another porn lawsuit (pdf), and it appears the lawyers filing the case are confused. But it’s another example of why I say providing whois privacy isn’t free.

Adult movie producer Fraserside, a division of publicly traded company Private Media Group Inc., sued “Moniker Privacy Services, dba DrTuber.com” for copyright infringement. DrTuber.com is one of the web’s most visited web sites; Alexa ranks it #409.

Fraserside points to a number of its videos that are hosted on the explicit web site.

Typically you’ll see a whois proxy service such as Moniker named in a lawsuit so that the service will reveal the owner. But the way the complaint is written, it appears Fraserside’s lawyers think that Moniker Privacy Services is running DrTuber.com.

Even if the plaintiff drops Moniker once it understands the relationship, it will cost Moniker to respond…another example of the costs of providing a whois proxy service.

Further Reading:

  1. Doh! Miami Blog Confused by Moniker Privacy Services, Connects it to Child Porn
  2. Wikileaks Could Put More Pressure on Whois Privacy Services
  3. Providing Whois Privacy Isn’t Free

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  1. theo
    August 25th, 2011 | 1:55 pm

    Time for ICANN to decide on a thin whois. Everybody happy :)

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