Now this is interesting timing for a bonfire…
Adult studio BangBros today announced it has acquired PornWikiLeaks.com—the notorious website that has posted personal information about adult performers and their families for nearly a decade—with the sole purpose of shutting it down.
BangBros has provided no details as to how — or whether — they may have verified that no backups exist, nor have they provided information regarding other essential terms of the sale, such as the identity of the seller.
Of course, with the GirlsDoPorn trial raging in California, where an alleged connection to PWL has been mentioned prominently, it’s easy to see why the owner of PWL would want to dump the site. But why would BangBros step up right now? Pardon me for being cynical, but, we don’t see much of this kind of philanthropy in the adult business.
(In)convenient inferno
BangBros did post a video that purports to show a bonfire of hard drives containing the PornWikiLeaks data being set ablaze:
Some might call this move the destruction or suppression of evidence, be it intentional or not.
Also:
The following text was posted on PornWikiLeaks Thursday by BangBros:
To our fellow industry peers,
In the current world we live in, as we all know, once it’s on the internet, it’s forever. For too long, this site has unfortunately been a resource for hate, lies and sensitive information. Many of us have had our real names online for the world to see. Over 15,000 performers’ real names were listed here. Some had phone numbers, addresses, even family members’ names posted as well. That type of information wasn’t voluntarily submitted. It was stolen from anyone that had it posted.
BangBros had enough. We have purchased this site with the intention of shutting it down and removing all information associated with it. There’s no catch. No hidden thing to getting your personal stuff off of it. We simply didn’t want it out there for the world to see anymore. Yes, it’s that easy. While shutting this site down doesn’t purge the internet of all possible ties to real names and whatnot, it does make it one less place to harbor and find these things easily. A forum that had 300,000 posts on it, most of them negative and hate-filled, has now disappeared.
If you had anything ever posted on here, it will be removed and deleted forever from here. Bang Bros now owns the domain. Nothing will ever be up here besides this page. So you don’t have to worry about it coming back either.
This industry has weathered a lot and at the end of the day we rely on each other more than we think. Sure, we all have competitors; Bang Bros has plenty in itself. But making enemies doesn’t make us a stronger company. Treating others well and innovating does. So, our innovation this week, while not groundbreaking, hopes to make the internet a little bit better for all of us involved.
Have we heard the last of the PornWikiLeaks data? Only time will tell.
6 Responses
Donny Long’s wallet must be bulging today.
somebody honk the bang bus’ horn!
Someone should have done this eight or nine years ago but BangBros did a good thing. They should have smashed the HDD platters with a sledge hammer until they were in little pieces before burning them, though. Please, don’t cast Donny in any scenes, though — he likes to track dog shit onto carpets and fuck with a shitty ass. I hope they didn’t pay Donny too much, though — and that he gets his ass on a flight back to Bangkok (“bang-cock”) and Phuket (“fuck-it”) ASAP with the proceeds.
Matthew, you posted there from time to time.
Donny hasn’t owned pwl for some time. He sold it to GDP years ago. They bought it when they found out Jane Doe #1 was using it to find other girls to get on board with the case against them. Also the three had many posts there themselves and needed to scrap proof they were doxxing the girls themselves.
Whoever GDP is, I am glad that they sold to BangBros and that PWL is gone. I bet Donny has a copy taken shortly before he sold it to GDP, though — and the dirtiest bit of the site was posted during 2010-2011 (which is why the two Mikes, the two Marks and Sean fought to take it down at that time). Donny also has at least one other site up (and I think he has two) that I have run across so unfortunately it might not be over yet (you can tell his work because his trademark seems to be calling everyone he doesn’t like — including me — fags or whores). I wonder how he can afford to keep any websites online, though — no one has mentioned him having a legitimate job since he left Thailand.
Also, since mention of one of the people that helped fight PWL still triggers moderation, I will repeat my comment to BevMo/Hop. I never posted on PWL or any of Donny’s other sites. Someone must have posted claiming to be me. Now, BevMo the TV Man/Hop Sing, go suck on tranny cock before they “perform” on one of your third rate sets. I know you would rather fuck Jacky St. James while you are cameraman on one of her Bellesa sets or Holly Randall on her Wicked sets but they have too much class to fuck your worthless ass — they have more class on their thumbnail than you have, period, so you are stuck with fucking trannies on sets that you actually direct!!!!!!!!!