IWantEmpire Targets Piracy in New Deal With Porn Guardian

LOS ANGELES—iWantEmpire is declaring open season on content pirates after reaching an agreement with Porn Guardian to give all of its artists protection from pirates and provide regulatory enforcement to take down illegally-obtained content from unauthorized websites. “We had previously assisted our artists in-house when they informed us their content was being pirated and had our team reach out and get it removed,” said Jay Phillips, co-founder and president of iWantEmpire. “That was reactive. Now we are being proactive by having Porn Guardian actively monitor and scan known infringing sites to get content removed within minutes of being posted. We also hope to be able to identify pirates and locate them to enforce legal remedies and give our artists the protection they deserve.” Under its agreement with Porn Guardian, iWantEmpire will cover the cost for all of its artists to enforce the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which provides protection to owners of intellectual property from potential copyright infringement via the Internet. Porn Guardian will provide regular monitoring of content, that includes DMCA warnings to filehosts, tubes, torrents, blogs, newsgroups and other websites that are illegally hosting proprietary content. Its monitoring systems will constantly monitor reported URLs to determine when and if files are taken down. Moreover, Porn Guardian will provide legal assistance by supplying evidentiary material or Evidence Packages outlining how sites, users and others have illegally used protected content. These Evidence Packages have been the cornerstone of some of the largest legal cases over the last five years and have been responsible to for taking down some of the Internet’s largest file hosting services. To learn more about Porn Guardian, visit PornGuardian.com. iWantEmpire's network of sites includes iWantClips, iWantCustomClips, iWantPhone, and iWantFanClub. For more information about iWantEmpire, visit iWantEmpire.com.