The Purchase of PornWikiLeaks Was Smoke & Mirrors
POSTED ON: September 1, 2019 ZAP REPORTS

On August 29th, porn production company Bang Bros purchased the infamous and damaging website Porn WikiLeaks. Porn WikiLeaks had been doxxing adult performers and their families since 2011 with information originally obtained from an adult industry medical clinic.

It is unclear who actually owned Porn WikiLeaks before the Bang Bros purchase. More than one source, including The Daily Beast, had implied that some believe that disgruntled former porn star and convicted felon Donny Long ran the site. Other sources, including Ars Technica, have implied that a more recent owner was Michael Pratt, founder and owner of GirlsDoPorn.com.

Pratt is currently being sued by 22 female plaintiffs in 3 lawsuits for damages related to their experiences as porn actresses with GirlsDoPorn.com. “The Plaintiffs collectively allege that the Defendants perpetrated intentional misrepresentation, fraudulent concealment, false promises, negligent misrepresentation, misappropriation of name and likeness, negligence, breach of contract, promissory estoppel, and unlawful and fraudulent business practices.

Plaintiffs also allege fraudulent transfer as Defendants are believed to have transferred the videos and their funds overseas to hide assets.” They are claiming damages in excess of $22 million. Much of the damage comes from their personal information being added to Porn WikiLeaks in July of 2015. According to the Plaintiffs, later that same year administrative control of Porn WikiLeaks was transferred to Pratt’s email address.

Pratt has filed for bankruptcy. “According to Pratt’s bankruptcy filing, he makes $38,800 a month, with $25,000 left over after expenses. He is reporting $443,000 in debt, including $134,000 in taxes. The litigation is also listed as a debt, without a dollar amount.” Pratt’s obviously in a financial hole and if he was the owner of Porn WikiLeaks, it was in his best fiscal interest to sell.

Lawyers know what they’re doing, usually. Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP will likely subpoena Bang Bros (if they haven’t already) to find out who they paid and who they obtained the now-burned hard drives from. But it doesn’t stop there. Bang Bros are not the heroes this PR stunt of theirs makes them out to be.

Bang Bros is a network of “amateur” mainstream porn sites. Don’t let this seemingly good deed win over your favor, though. Bang Bros is known to have hired a 15-year-old girl (that’s rape and child pornography) in the past, among other things. (It should be noted that the allegations against John Snavely mentioned in the previous link were dropped in 2017; I think most folks are unaware of this.)

We don’t know REALLY know who Bang Bros paid or why. The timing was terribly convenient if it was Michael Pratt. Keep in mind, that the Bang Bros statement on the Porn WikiLeaks site is purposefully misleading.

If you had anything ever posted on here, it will be removed and deleted forever from here. As well as BangBros now owns the domain. Nothing will ever be up here besides this page that you see now. So you don’t have to worry about it coming back either.

It explicitly states that the content of Porn WikiLeaks is not coming back. How is that going to be prevented? It’s not coming back to that domain, but how is it not coming back to the internet? Consider the following about data:

How do we have a guarantee that the drives in those videos were the actual drives owned by the administrator of Porn WikiLeaks? Those were a lot of drives (and very old drives, at that) and it made for a good spectacle, but were these really the drives that came out of both the hosting servers and the home computers used by the administrators?
The drives were only burned. That’s not how you destroy data off a drive. The data still exists on the platters inside of each drive. It can all still be extracted. Again, a nice spectacle, but not effective. What actually happened to the drives after they were burned?

Backups. Who doesn’t back up their site and into multiple locations for security purposes? Additionally, it’s not just search engines that run crawlers to archive sites — it’s easy enough to learn how to do this on your own. How many people have a backup of Porn Wikileaks of their own — and how many are willing to release it on Tor, or worse, republish it to an offshore, non-USA domain site?

This was a publicity stunt and I’m willing to bet that it was smoke and mirrors to distract us from the GirlsDoPorn.com trial. I want to know Bang Bros’s larger motive, don’t you? Stay focused on the GirlsDoPorn.com trial; I bet we’ll learn more there.

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