Foreign porn film producers sue Korean netizens for piracy

SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Yonhap) -- A group of 50 U.S. and Japanese pornography producers
have filed a lawsuit against South Korean Internet users for illegally uploading
their content onto the Internet for commercial purposes, police here said
Thursday.
The 50 foreign firms have selected a local law firm to seek damages from about
10,000 heavy uploaders in South Korea, police officials said.
"We selected about 10,000 user IDs that earned financial benefits from habitually
uploading pornography on the Web sites," an official at the law firm said.
"We also plan to take legal action against some 80 file-sharing Web sites for
aiding and abetting the distribution of such contents."
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