Adult film studios getting nasty over South Korea porn piracy

By Eriq Gardner

Something tells us the adult film industry doesn't have the ear of the U.S. Trade Representative. Sure, South Korea appears on the government's special 301 watch list of IP offenders around the world, but nary a word about the country's citizens being "heavy uploaders" of copyrighted adult material.

A group of 50 U.S. and Japanese adult entertainment studios are taking measures into their own hands, so to speak, filing a massive lawsuit against 10,000 South Korean individuals for uploading and 80 South Korean websites for "abetting or neglecting to supervise such illicit distribution."

The country has taken steps recently to rectify this problem, blocking foreign porn sites, but the adult content industry is not satisfied. Maybe they just don't have the political pull that Hollywood seems to have in the Justice Department.