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Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video (SFW)

* By David Kravets Email Author

* April 29, 2010 |

* 5:23 pm |

* Categories: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, porn

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Piracy is hurting the bottom line of the adult entertainment industry, according to a new public-address video starring porn stars.

The Adult Entertainment Trade Association, a branch of the Free Speech Coalition, says DVD sales are down at least a third because of DVD counterfeiting and so-called internet “tube” porn sites that sometimes infect viewers’ computers with malware and spyware. Credible piracy figures are not available, as the porn business is run largely by private companies, the coalition says.

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Jared Wolny,24, and Tessa Komer, 21, started dating in July 2007 while attending the University of Georgia. The relationship was a whirlwind Soon after discovering each other on Facebook and hooking up they moved in together and according to Wolny bought a Great Dane and exchanged promise rings. But their union unraveled just as quickly as it had begun and they broke up in January. Then things really went wrong. Police say that after Komer started dating another man in the spring, Wolny hacked into her MySpace account and posing as her sent bogus messages to her new boyfriend.

Wolny also allegedly installed spyware on Komer’s computer to monitor her Web use and eavesdrop on her online conversations and stole the IDs and passwords she used to access certain websites. But the alleged act that precipitated the situation and may turn out to be Wolny’s undoing was his vengeful posting of nude photos of Komer on his Facebook page.

Wolny was arrested in May soon after the pictures appeared online and charged with 32 misdemeanors including 14 counts of computer theft 14 counts of computer invasion of privacy and an identity-fraud charge for his alleged impersonation of Komer on MySpace. Currently free on $6 400 bond Wolny is awaiting trial. “I don t want to go to jail just because we had a bad breakup ” he told one reporter.

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