From TorrentFreak:

TORRENT SITE: COPYRIGHT TROLL HAD STAFF ACCESS TO MEMBER DATA

Empornium, one of the leading private torrent trackers for adult content, says it believes a copyright troll gained access to a staff moderation account and is now using obtained data to threaten its users. The revelations may shine light on why some Empornium users have received settlement threats with no lawsuit filed and no notice from their ISPs. [...]

https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-copyright-troll-had-staff-access-to-member-data-150211/ 

One time something wrong happened when I purchased a clip from them; It said I had bought the video 5 times, and I also payed 5 times.
I complained about this to the staff. Then they asked me to give all credit card information and my name. I did so, but never heard from them again.
No refunds. They really don't give a shit. 

Mmmhh...

I'm on the side of always complying with the Law.

On the other hand, I think if you buy something that is made to watch and be kept private, as long as you keep it private everything will be alright.

I'm not really feeling sad for a site that charges $20 for a 5 min inflation vid of below par quality. I've commished better art for less than that, and even with then I can choose what I want to see.

Honestly. That's an absurd price, and it annoys the crap out of me when anyone famous or not charges so much for so little. The only reason they do it is because horny people will pay anything. Stop being taken advantage of, and save your money for fetish material with better quality.

It is saddening but not surprising...I originally found TMC vaguely enticing but lately find them more and more disappointing (I think I've mentioned this opinion in previous posts). Until this event surfaced I would periodically check their site in the hopes that they produced something worthwhile but...you would assume most production companies would start out raw and then evolve and improve their technique(s) over time. TMC seems to have mastered the opposite...now producing little more than metaphorical chum out of apparent abject laziness and extreme low quality due to rampant cost cutting.

Oh, boy! Controversy!

So since I got one of these letters, I want to say Shame on you.

You clearly cross-referenced the list you got from that mod with the list of people who have purchased stuff from you in the past. Yet you sent one to me, and for a good two years I would weekly or bi-weekly spend 10-20 bucks. I've probably spent at least 200-300 over time on your site.

And yet your going to threaten me with a lawsuit because I downloaded 3 files (I specifically set the torrent to only DL certain files) out of a 7-12 file batch. I only did that because you guys have stopped posting previews and I've blind bought enough stuff that was of shitty qulaity.

But congrats, you've turned off at least one regular customer who bought 20-30 bucks of stuff at least once a month. I'm probably not the only one either.

"If you haven't acted on the letter then nothing else will happen since we don't follow up except for in the most extreme cases where there is malicious intent or the pure volume of files being pirated by one person is too large.   If you have responded to the letter let me know and I will take care of it."

Just quoting you before your co-criminal Mark B tells you to edit that part out of your post.

Hm, if you have bought videos there in the past or distant pass but haven't lately, how does one if you'll be targeted?

BttrfliesNHurricanes:

http://bttrfliesnhurricanes.deviantart.com/gallery/

Taking other people's photos, fiddling with them a bit and then blowing your own trumpet all over your profile about how good you reckon this and that work of "yours" is.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqmH60guI-NfTBCo7aKASiA/videos

Linked from from your DA journal, via a forum post on here, in fact, promoting your YouTube channel full of other people's content, not to mention the DA link showing up in your Sig every time you post here.

That's a lot of self-promotion for someone who takes other people's material and uses it to his own ends, all the while shouting from the rooftops about it.

There's a real air of desperation about just how hard you seek praise and attention, and with so very little reason of any substance for why anyone to want to give you any. It is highly consistent with someone who shares pay material amongst those exploitative, socially engineered-for-profit online communities in return for the hollow praise and social status that handing out free stuff offers them.

And now you're here starting this topic - pompous, mouthing off, trying to wrangle a cheer squad of other like-minded posters, all trying to make as big a stink as possible, and all in the absence of anything much at all in the way of facts. You must be their fuckin' HERO, dude, fighting the good fight of theiving scumbags everywhere.

Or do you actually think you're so slick that no one could possibly notice? Again consistent with desperate  attempts to kid yourself about being something that you're not.

Then even after much of the yodelling hearsay was answered by a few key corrections about the matter, the repetitive bile continues even on points already explained, thus requiring some to need repeating. Yeah, let's all form a bucket-brigade and keep taking turns hammering this until they either just give up, or get buried under it all.

You come across a major attention-seeking tool who doesn't create anything of your own while being more than happy to promote yourself on the back other people's content, yet here you are trying to spout morals when;

a) You didn't nearly have the facts, but went on major witch-hunt in an attempt to do considerable harm with hearsay anyway, and

b) You have obvious, consistent form in just such the things that you clearly do, yet you try to turn this into anything but it being first and foremost about people illegally downloading/sharing/seeding content they have no right to, and the owner-creator of the content seeking to give only the worst offenders a chance to rethink their actions before pursuing the matter further in order to try to stop hundreds or even thousands of leechers taking clips without paying a cent.

They're lucky they're even getting the chance, considering re-upping material for wide redistribution is very much a deliberate act of organised crime, given how the sharing sites actually work (as in the users do all the heavy lifting while the sharing sites make money, saves costs and generally aren't the one taking the fall if the shit hits the fan).

Wise up and get to grips with the fact that those sites exploit their users and harm anyone who actually produces something, all for the sake of making easy money, while content creators lose business hand-over-fist, and the users who make it all possible are the ones who are being used to do it, while at the same time placing themselves quite deservedly at risk of prosecution.

You're encouraged to believe you won't get caught for pirating because it's all the more lucrative for the people who profit from it. They don't care if you get caught - it's not their problem.

Wise up to that and you'll have learned a valuable lesson about the sort of people to look out for in life. Of course, if you ARE one of those people, and posting in the manner some have here and elsewhere makes it obvious that some clearly are, then of course you already know. They/you mingle with all the leeching, filesharing site sheep who haven't yet figured out that they're pawns.

Wise up also to the fact that you shouldn't do the crime if you're not prepared to do the time, thus actually taking responsibility for your own deliberate actions. Crying like an unpaid bitch and lashing out about the prospect of something potentially coming back to bite you on the ass, or someone else who brings you stolen things for free, shows you to be as entitled and infantile as you look here, on DA, and on YouTube.

I hope a few of the worst serial offenders in this get an ass-reaming, because clearly nothing else has discouraged these people from doing what leads to just about everyone who tries to produce the things we want calling it quits.

Seriously, watching the blather about all this pretty much amounts to:

TMC: "Please stop downloading/redistributing our content, whether for your own profit or not. You know it is illegal, wrong, and threatens our business, and thus may well mean the end of any more content of your interest being made."

Pay Content Theives: "Yeah, right... Fuck off, we're going to keep right on doing just that, because, what are you going to be able to do about it?"

TMC: "Ok, you were asked nicely and given a chance, so now you knowingly take your culpability to the next level in the legal sense. Now, after jumping through all the hoops the file sharing sites put up to supposedly deal with pirating while covering their own asses, but which in fact serve just as much to make it all the more difficult, some of them still haven't dealt with the issue, so now we're taking the next step to protect our rights."

PCT:"Hissy Fit Time!!! We're going to go viral and make the biggest stink we can about this by way of spreading hearsay and and carrying on like a buch of infantile, entitled idiots, because even after fair warning, we didn't stop because we didn't think we could actually face any consequence of our own selfish actions. So now because of our struggle with the simple realities of life, we're going to lash out and do as much harm as we can to try to get you to back off and let us keep stealing your property."

TMC: "We really would rather not have to take this further. Again: Just stop sharing our pay content."

PCT: "No, we're going wilfully continue to disregard your rights, while at the same time mewling about morals as we go right on stealing and redistributing your property. In short, we are now going to do you even more harm than just stealing from you, because we want to stop you from trying to stop us stealing from you."

TMC: "Well OK, we'll continue to expend the extra time and effort trying to explain the matter to anyone who wants to hear it, to resolve any other side issues with people in order to avoid collateral damage, including letting minor infractions slide (even though those cases are still of wrongdoing against us), while we go after only the main offenders. We can't be any fairer of more reasonable than that."

PCT: "Rant/Bitch/Whinge - because we don't want our supply of free pirated pay material to be cut off, nor to deservedly face prosecution/cost/consequence because of what we do. We want to keep getting away with everything, and fuck you or anyone else telling us otherwise. We have a legion of equally pissweak Internet brats who are gonna cause you all sorts of shit over this by spreading innuendo, misinformation and using sleazy rhetoric like 'Copyright Trolling', so cop that!

"But keep making the clips we want or there'll be nothing to pirate, but don't tell us you'll have to stop because what we're doing means it's not worth your while. We want free shit, now, and we expect someone else to pay for it, to make all the effort, then hand it to us for on a plate as a way of thanking us for sitting on our asses stealing from you all day.

I really hate getting involved in crap like this; but srflour's right.

Taylormadeclips is a business.  They produce content in order to make money.  Some people have been distributing their content for free.  That's theft.  So they went and got the information of people stealing from them, and went after them.  There is nothing to imply that they just farmed information; even in the original article.

Every post by you in this thread, BttrfliesNHurricanes, including the original; has been walls and walls of text trying to stir up controversy and rally people against TMC.  There's a difference between disseminating information and trying to stir up a mob.  We get it, you're not a fan of TMC.  So don't shop there.  The torches and pitch-forks are unnecessary.