LOS ANGELES – In a statement issued Monday, adult social media platform JustFor.fans said it has reached a “breakthrough in the battle against online content theft with foolproof fingerprinting technology from top anti-piracy company Porn Guardian.”

JFF said it has “already nabbed its first pirate using the unique system” – which JFF said is exclusive to the company and available only to JFF models – by “embedding user data in the streams.”

“That way, when an illegal version of the file is found, we can decode the file and figure out which user on JFF was the pirate,” explained JFF’s Dominic Ford. “I am unaware that any other fan platform has tech like this.”

Ford added that during COVID pandemic, “it’s been difficult for models to make money, so pirating their content is personal.”

“It quite literally takes the food directly off the table of the models, many of whom depend on this income because their other jobs have dried up during quarantine,” Ford said.

Ford said noted that he co-founded Porn Guardian and the firm has “removed millions and millions of illegal files on behalf of the largest studios and performers in porn” – so when he later started JFF, “anti-piracy was built into it.”

In its statement, JFF quoted the site member sho discovered the pirated files as saying that JFF “continues to excel as the one and only PaaS offering in a very unique market space.”

“The JFF platform consistently provides its clients with a robust contemporary PaaS full of sleek features, including (to me) one of the most valuable: JFF’s fingerprinting technology,” the site member added. “The digital fingerprinting feature in conjunction with the support of Dominic’s team provides the client a very reassuring ‘support the performer’ approach with their individual content avoiding pitfalls of one’s material turning up in all corners of the internet these days.”

In its statement, JFF noted that models and fans can report illegal files to JFF’s Report Piracy link on the site’s dashboard so Porn Guardian can find and remove them.

“It doesn’t stop piracy, it just limits the damage,” Ford concedes. “And limiting piracy means finding out who it is and stopping where it began: on their pay site account. By doing that, we are shutting off the hose – not just cleaning up all the water.”

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