But Aylo allegedly ignored those requests, even as the civil proceedings and trial in San Diego Superior Court brought to light the fraud and deception involved in making the videos, according to the complaint. A short time later, that footage was posted on Girls Do Porn’s website and uploaded to other popular free porn tube sites, including Pornhub, despite the promise that the footage would only be distributed via DVDs on the other side of the world. Many of the women said viewers found and published their full names online, resulting in severe harassment and suicidal thoughts, for some of them.
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SAN DIEGO – David Warren of Las Vegas was sentenced in federal court today to 10 years in prison for coercing three women to engage in prostitution and transporting them… Victims who consumed alcohol or smoked marijuana were directed to make a recorded statement saying that they were not under the influence of any drugs or alcohol, even though they had just smoked marijuana or drank alcohol. Mislabeling abusive media as porn makes it seem like “this is something that either platforms or performers are complicit with,” said Mike Stabile, director of public policy at the Free Speech Coalition, the adult industry trade group. When she was sixteen, the doctor in her small town of two thousand people prescribed the Pill because of her painful periods—but didn’t bother to tell her its primary purpose was to help prevent pregnancy. Then, the first time she had sex, on the night of her high school graduation, she became pregnant, though they used a condom.
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- In writing about this case, Samantha Cole described the genre as “a fantasy that plays on coercion, and a real-life version of the ‘casting couch’ porn trope, which blurs the line between reality and fiction”—and sex trafficking, we may add.
- GirlsDoPorn’s victims were doxxed, harassed and humiliated, and they felt they had a full-time job they never asked for – trying to get the videos of their trafficking removed from the internet.
- “These women could now, theoretically, hire someone to search for all this content that they now own the copyright to and issue a [Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice] to get it taken down. I highly suggest they do that.”
- When they tried to stop the producers told them they would not be paid, and yet when the shoots ended many women said they were not paid the full amount promised.
- What Girls Do Porn has done to these women—almost certainly more than the 22 included in this lawsuit—is beyond serious.
At just 22 years old, she was lured into traveling to California for what she thought was an above-board modeling job. Copyright in a settlement agreement is “standard practice” for attorneys representing victims of nonconsensual pornography, Erica Johnstone, co-founder of the nonprofit legal privacy advocacy group Without My Consent, told Gizmodo. PornHub and the other Aylo sites finally removed the videos in 2019 after the FBI raided GirlsDoPorn and Pratt and his co-defendants were charged criminally, according to the lawsuit. Prosecutors allege Pratt and those who worked for him recruited young women for modeling gigs, but when the women arrived in San Diego, they were pressured to have sex on camera and falsely told the videos would go to private DVD collections overseas. Girls Do Porn’s tagline is “amateur teens having sex on video.” The premise of Girls Do Porn’s videos is to imply that the young women are performing for the first time in porn.
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“Aylo finally removed Girls Do Porn’s videos from its websites,” the suit states. “But this was too little too late. Aylo had already spent a decade spreading the videos to every corner of the globe where they could be downloaded for free with the click of a button.” She is now shining a light on the sinister reality of pornography, and how it is so often made — a quest born out of her honest and raw recollection of the night she was so violently abused; she suffered significant vaginal tearing and even tried — unsuccessfully — to flee the hotel completely naked. The lawsuit seeks at least $10 million for each plaintiff in compensatory and punitive damages and to bar Aylo from ever again hosting the victims’ videos. But even if the stigma against porn and its performers didn’t exist, there would still be sex trafficking and exploitation. If you’re wondering how this scheme could be sex trafficking, allow us to introduce you to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
The hard drives were then set on fire, hopefully destroying the information that had been used to hurt so many people for so long. Attorneys for the defendants would present their case as-if the victims had been aware of the scheme from the beginning, despite the plaintiffs having email and phone records which very clearly laid out a pattern of deception carried out on dozens of women over several years. When the plaintiffs began presenting their testimony, this entire scheme was laid bare for the world to see. “Garcia coached me on how to correspond with the prospective women, to gain their trust, even if that included telling lies and hiding information. Garcia instructed me to tell women the videos they filmed would never be released in the United States or on the internet.” After emailing in to learn more about these ads, the three men from GirlsDoPorn – Pratt, Wolfe, and Garcia – would begin to respond to the young women through aliases. Michael Pratt often used the names Mark and Jonathan, Matthew Wolfe often used the names Ben or Isaac (oftentimes with the surname “Fox” attached), and Andre Garcia typically used the alias of Jonathan.
Regardless, he would continue to upload videos to the GirlsDoPorn website throughout 2019, even after he and his colleagues had been charged with federal sex trafficking, indicating that these videos had been filmed well beforehand – and that he still had access to some of the company’s data storage. Theodore “Teddy” Gyi had been a cameraman and interviewer, who had been hired by Matthew Wolfe in the mid-2010s to take over his job filming for the company. From that point moving forward, Gyi had served as the main videographer for the website and had been the only non-executive to know the inner workings of the company – as well as the only other person other than the three named defendants to be in the hotel rooms during the filming of the videos. He would tell the court that he heard Andre Garcia lie to the women involved on several occasions about where the videos would end up once filmed, verifying several statements made about the defendants’ malicious practices. In dozens of cases, women had to undergo even more harassment due to the owners of GirlsDoPorn uploading the women’s true identities to the website PornWikileaks (which was exactly as disgusting as it sounds). This website was a compendium of porn actresses’ real names and identities, which included links to their social media accounts, their school & work information, and oftentimes even more personal or intimate details (their home town, address, phone number, etc.).
Holding businesses accountable motivates platforms to assign a registered DMCA agent with the Copyright Office to facilitate takedowns, Johnstone added, and copyright empowers the holder to subpoena a platform for information about the alleged infringer. According to the complaint, a video featuring one of the plaintiffs was the second most viewed video in 2014 on PornHub — a site that the complaint alleges had 42 billion views in 2019, making it the 10th most visited website in the world. An Aylo spokesperson said the company does not comment on ongoing litigation “out of respect for the integrity of court proceedings,” but that the company looked forward “to the facts being fully and fairly aired” in court. What Girls Do Porn has done to these women—almost certainly more than the 22 included in this lawsuit—is beyond serious. Although I can’t always give good news, I am direct and do my best to simplify things for people to understand. Police had been surveilling Pratt’s home in Hidden Meadows, California, which Pratt had not been to since summer of last year – having left behind a cat and several computers.
- Pratt and his co-conspirators also promised many of the women that their videos would only be seen by “private collectors” in faraway countries like New Zealand, and that their communities at home would never see their sex scenes.
- And since Michael Pratt, the site’s founder, had yet to be located, that argument seemed to carry some added weight.
- “As of December 12, 2020, MindGeek still hosts victims’ videos on its websites, including Plaintiffs,” it said.
Beginning to grow confident that this was a decent way to earn a nice chunk of change, Jane would speak to Jonathan again on FaceTime. He again assured her that nothing she appeared in would be posted online and that the shoot would be quick and painless – taking less than 30 minutes of her time. He began making final plans to fly her out to San Diego to film the scene, offering an all-expenses-paid trip to Southern California, as well as an opportunity for this young woman to make decent money without having to ask her mom for help (who was already helping support two other children).
Around a month after filming, the victims learned the true nature of the defendants’ business when the videos were not only released on their subscription site girlsdoporn.com, but also prominently published on popular free tube sites like Pornhub.com. The defendants and “fans” of GirlsDoPorn also sent the videos to victims’ friends, family, classmates, and colleagues, and posted the victims’ names and contact information with the videos. As a result of this wide exposure, the victims were harassed and shamed, forced to leave jobs or school, and ostracized or even disowned by family and friends. The victims suffered immense emotional distress and economic harm, and their lives were derailed for years. Douglas Wiederhold is the latest defendant to plead guilty in the criminal cases against the website’s owners and operators, whom prosecutors say engaged in a years-long sex trafficking conspiracy in which women were coerced and tricked into appearing in pornographic videos under false pretenses. According to an FBI press release, Girls Do Porn owners Michael Pratt, along with chief videographer Matthew Wolfe, administrative assistant Valerie Moser, and male performer Ruben “Andre” Garcia, were charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion.
In writing about this case, Samantha Cole described the genre as “a fantasy that plays on coercion, and a real-life version of the ‘casting couch’ porn trope, which blurs the line between reality and fiction”—and sex trafficking, we may add. When the value of a porn performer begins high and diminishes rapidly, no wonder there is exploitation of young women. This particular scheme preyed on young women looking to get into modeling and/or make quick cash and ultimately turned it into porn encouraging a culture of sexual entitlement. He ordered Girls Do Porn’s founder, Michael James Pratt, 36, his business partner, Matthew Isaac Wolfe, 37, and porn actor Ruben Andre Garcia, 31, to hand over all images, videos, likenesses, and copyrights and to take “active steps” to remove them from circulation. After a long legal battle, a California judge not only ordered Girls Do Porn to pay out $12.7 million in damages, but granted the Jane Does ownership rights to the content. Following this announcement, a video was uploaded to the BangBros YouTube channel, showing an unknown person standing over a pile of hard drives – containing the information compiled on PornWikiLeaks – along with a bottle of lighter fluid and a lighter.