You can decide if that is good value…

On Flava, I have it on good authority that they do actually watermark their clips, so they can identify precisely which of their members share their stuff to the world. Assuming, of course that their members don't use fake email addresses, VPNs, and that they do use anonymous pre-pay credit cards. How they actually embed the codes, I have no idea. But it is expensive for companies to do this.

I'd be curious to know what kind of tracking system was in place that enabled Flava Works to successfully sue for $1.5 million (whether they get it or not is another question).

Yes, that torrent was posted at GT.net. We have since confirmed that the person who uploaded is one of the chief honchos at the company that owns Frat X. He crudely doctored his company's own video, perhaps to fake some sophisticated tracking system that does not in reality exist, and posted the clip himself with fake warnings at tube/file hosting and various (not just GT.net) torrent sites.

So, no member at Frat X has been caught out with this. This torrent was entirely fake. It seems to be a warning to their own members not to capture these clips and post them. Let's see how successful that is in reality.

but yes, that will likely become expensive, even if with a settlement before it is going to court or to pay a good lawyer.

hXXp://operationgaga.com/topic/7799-american-court-awards-15-million-in-damages-to-gay-porn-piracy-case/

What I found incredulous were the comments expressing annoyance rather than concern about this on one of the other torrent sites:

hXXps://gay-torrents.org/details.php?id=f5fc0603c518cd2ff5cb0921f3dd1688366ca452

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Does this version have those annoying piracy warnings flashing throughout the video like the .mov version already uploaded?

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Privacy warnings are bean cut out.

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Thanks very much for the effort of cutting out the warnings. This and the other one needed someone with scissors

I once "traded" a pay site password at an exchange site and got an email from the porn company showing me hundreds of IP addresses that had all tried to log on using my now deactivated login and pass.  Whether they can do anything about it is another question.

However even what OP suggested wouldn't really help in this instance. The VPN will give a different IP but your username will be very useful to identify you based on the billing information you have provided in the site.

Now if this user's account was hacked/cracked then he will be in trouble for somebody else screw up.