Mar 9, 2005 • 1 min read

Fred Durst sues websites over sex tape copyright

Fred Durst has launched multi-million dollar copyright lawsuits against websites, ISPs and Roadrunner over a hacked sex tape, though his lawyers reportedly do not expect them to reach court.

Despite playing down the hacking and subsequent online release of a home-made sex tape that had been stored on his personal computer, Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst has kicked off several multi-million dollar lawsuits against various websites and ISPs who have been hosting the video, and even against record label Roadrunner because of their links with the Blabbermouth website which has presumably been hosting the vid too.

The lawsuits are accusing those websites who have been making the video available of copyright violation - the singer apparently copyrighted the sex tape shortly after it first surfaced online.

However, the Durst camp admits the lawsuits are just a strategy to force websites to take the video off line and the Limp Bizkit man's lawyers don't expect any of the litigation to actually go to court.

Of course given that Limp Bizkit are signed to Interscope, a Universal label, presumably websites streaming the sex video will be required to pay a penny each time the tape is streamed.

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