Adult Magazine Sued LeaseWeb for Hosting Pirated Websites, claiming $188M in Damages
Feb 18, 2014
Perfect 10 , an Adult Magazine Publisher who previously accused Google, Amazon, RapidShare, Deposit File and many more companies for Copyright Infringement, has sued LEASEWEB Hosting provider this time. LEASEWEB is the former hosting provider of File Sharing website ' Megaupload ', and Perfect 10 accuses them of providing hosting services to several websites that host pirated copies of their images. Perfect 10 claimed in the Federal Court of California " Defendants host and provide Internet connectivity and other essential services to websites, including infringing websites operated in California that have infringed tens of thousands of Perfect 10 Copyrighted Works ". LEASEWEB currently providing hosting to at least 8 websites, including Imgchili.net, imgchili.com, imgtiger.com, imgserve.net, Poringa.net, ultraforos.com, ultraforos.net and Galleryworld.info , distributing Perfect 10's copyright material without permission. In their complaint, the Megauploa