Pioneering Porn

The porn industry is a pioneering marvel.  It's early adoption of VHS over Beta at least in part helped resolve that bloody conflict.  It was the first to figure out how to make money online.  And now:

Lawsuits brought by porn puveyor Perfect 10 against assorted credit card companies assert a secondary liability theory for processing payments to websites that allegedly infringe the copyrights in pornographic works. If the Ninth Circuit finds the credit card companies liable under theories of contributory and/or vicarious infringement, this would represent an expansive extension of copyright liability that is based on commercial ties with infringers, even if the accused companies weren’t aware that they were doing business with infringers. Perfect 10 lost in district court, (see also) (N.D. Cal. opinion here), but reports are mixed about oral arguments that took place yesterday before the Ninth Circuit.

Yeah, that's a good idea: piss off the companies who help you do fulfillment in addition to criminalizing your potential customers.  I'm getting so sick of stupid copyright tricks...

ntodd