Io: Keep your paws off my video porn!
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And here we were, thinking So. Cal was the home of porn, and northern California was above it all.
Turns out, San Francisco adult entertainment company Io Group filed a lawsuit last week (WSJ subscription required) against southern California’s Veoh Networks, yet another of those online video-sharing services, alleging Veoh was allowing users to access Io’s adult videos without permission. Veoh, as widely reported, has since taken down the video, but no word on whether suit has been dropped.
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