Flava Works maintains it has "ample evidence" that Mark Juris knowingly uploaded videos to file-sharing sites like Gay-Torrents.org.

A porn company is suing Marc Juris, the openly gay president of WE TV for $1.2 million, claiming he knowingly distributed its videos to file-sharing torrent sites.

In court documents Flava Works, which specializes in videos starring models of color, claims Juris joined its site as a member, then downloaded various videos and illegally uploaded them on peer-to-peer file-sharing sites including Gay-Torrents.org and GayTorrent.ru.

“Marc Juris was issued a cease-and-desist over alleged sharing and was urged to settle out of court [but he] refused,” Flava Works CEO Phil Bleicher told JRL Charts.

“We have ample evidence to prove that its him—from matching emails, IP, logs and usernames—and he continued to share our copyrighted works.”

Bleicher claims Juris (above) filed a countersuit under a John Doe pseudonym, claiming Flava Works blackmails its subscribers by filing boilerplate lawsuits and threatening to out them as customers.

“Capitalizing on the social stigma of its own product, Flava Works has apparently discovered a lucrative side business: extorting money from former subscribers by threatening to expose them as consumers of gay porn,” claimed “Doe” in a complaint filed Tuesday.

“Even if the accusation is false, most users reluctantly pay rather than be outed in court documents as a gay porn user—especially if the victim has chosen to keep his sexual orientation private.”


A porn company is suing Marc Juris, the openly gay president of WE TV for $1.2 million, claiming he knowingly distributed its videos to file-sharing torrent sites.

In court documents Flava Works, which specializes in videos starring models of color, claims Juris joined its site as a member, then downloaded various videos and illegally uploaded them on peer-to-peer file-sharing sites including Gay-Torrents.org and GayTorrent.ru.

Flava Works
“Marc Juris was issued a cease-and-desist over alleged sharing and was urged to settle out of court [but he] refused,” Flava Works CEO Phil Bleicher told JRL Charts.

“We have ample evidence to prove that its him—from matching emails, IP, logs and usernames—and he continued to share our copyrighted works.”

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Bleicher claims Juris (above) filed a countersuit under a John Doe pseudonym, claiming Flava Works blackmails its subscribers by filing boilerplate lawsuits and threatening to out them as customers.

“Capitalizing on the social stigma of its own product, Flava Works has apparently discovered a lucrative side business: extorting money from former subscribers by threatening to expose them as consumers of gay porn,” claimed “Doe” in a complaint filed Tuesday.

“Even if the accusation is false, most users reluctantly pay rather than be outed in court documents as a gay porn user—especially if the victim has chosen to keep his sexual orientation private.”

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But Bleicher (above) says he has ample evidence that Juris and others are guilty of infringing on his company’s copyrights. In 2012, his company received a $3 million judgment after suing other torrenters.

“Flava Works models and staff spend countless hours producing our high quality videos and images only to have a few people steal them and distribute to these illegal file sharing websites. This will stop, one lawsuit at a time.”

Juris is credited with reviving WE, and transitioning it from a women’s interest channel to a platform for broader reality programming, with shows like Braxton Family Values, Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars and Growing Up Hip-Hop.