February 13, 2007

Pirated Porn Seized

It's hard enough to sell porn DVD's these days, but as the guys from Dark Alley Media found out recently, there are shady people out there making it even harder. A during routine check of retailers in New York, DAM's Matthias von Fistenberg and Owen Hawk uncovered a major scam involving most of the popular gay porn companies. By banding together with a group of other studios, they got a court order and picked up 4,000 of the bootleg discs.

The official press release is below, along with pictures of them getting their vindication - and looking hot at the same time. If you click the pictures or links, you can watch LEGAL versions of movies from Dark Alley Media.

And in an item I missed last week, the legendary Ray Dragon has signed a distribution deal with Dark Alley. The first film the companies will release together will be "Jonny's Place," starring Arpad Miklos, Mick Powers, and Jonny Mack. It will be Dragon's first movie shot outside of his Manhattan dungeon.

"Jonny's Place is something different for me - we shot in daylight instead of the basement - though it still has a blue collar touch,” said Ray Dragon about his latest release, “It also features a new discovery Jonny Mack in his first adult film."

February 9th, 2007
New York City

Today at 10:00am EST, officers from Dark Alley Media and Pitbull Productions together with the United States Marshall raided two adult video stores in Times Square, Manhattan, seizing over 4000 counterfeit DVD’s. This represents the largest such seizure of counterfeit gay product to date.

Dark Alley Media originally discovered the counterfeit operation through routine sales work over a month ago. After the initial discovery, other studios were contacted and Pitbull Productions led the crucial legal proceedings.

Joining them in a Federal suit against the stores are Titan Media, Hot House, Falcon, Raging Stallion, and Jet Set. All of these companies had a wide range of counterfeit products in these stores, and decided together to stand with Dark Alley and Pitbull against this illegal operation.

“When we first uncovered this plot, we had no idea the depth to which it would extend. Soon, we discovered nearly every studio in this industry was being affected,” says Dark Alley Media President Matthias von Fistenberg. “No one should think that because we produce adult material, or gay material, that we do not deserve equal protection under the laws of this country, or that we will show any hesitation in exercising our right.”

Though nearly every major gay porn studio was contacted and informed that their product was being sold for prices as low as $6, many chose not to take a stand against pirating. Many of their movies remain for sale at these locations.

Posted by lavenderlounge at 5:04 PM

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