Scorpcast, LLC dba HaulStars v. Manica Media SL DC

Last month Scorpcast LLC (d/b/a HaulStars) sued 18 creators of pornographic video content and alleged Pornhub “content partners” that market sample videos on the Pornhub website: All 4 Health, Boutique Media, Bravomax Services, Fusee, HMZ Investments, Hot G Vibe, KB Productions, Logical, Manica Media, Media Solutions Canarias, Miriskana, Oanasun Entertainment, PMG Entertainment, Panda Hosting, Pioneer Stream Technologies, Quicksol, Straplezz, and WebTwo. Each defendant is accused of infringing a single patent through the use of certain Pornhub features allowing content creators to define images or text that appear at certain points in a given video (collectively, “tags”) that when clicked take the user to a certain part of a video, and that allow creators to select video thumbnails.