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infoneer-pulse:

The porn industry says it loses billions of dollars a year to Internet piracy, and one of its prime tactics to recover some of that money is to send letters to alleged downloaders threatening to sue them, thereby exposing their identities — and browsing tastes — in public records. 

Groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union say it’s nothing more than extortion. When such cases make it to court, they’re usually thrown out, but the industry still sends the letters to tens of thousands of people every year on the assumption that some will settle — usually for $3,000 to $5,000 — because they’re too scared to risk outing themselves as porn aficionados.

But a California woman is taking a different approach, according to Courthouse News Service. The woman, Liuxia Wong of Solano, sued first, hitting a studio called Hard Drive Productions on Monday with the argument that its demand for a $3,400 settlement was unconstitutional because porn is obscenity, and obscenity isn’t protected by the Copyright Clause of the Constitution.

» via MSNBC