Donny Long didn’t have a great weekend, as it seems as he was just given four new charges, making his current total to 8. He remains in custody in Florida.

Donny Long’s new charges are significant because it’s something many females in the adult industry have faced by either Donny Long himself or those like him.

836.115-2B – CYBER INTIMIDATE THREATEN HARA (2 charges)

Cyber intimidation by publication. It is unlawful for a person to electronically publish another person’s personal identification information with the intent to, or with the intent that a third party will use the information to: Threaten or harass the person, placing such person in reasonable fear of bodily harm.

784.048-2 – FOLLOW/HARASS/CYBERSTALK ANOTH (2 charges)

Stalking; “Harass” means to engage in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress to that person and serves no legitimate purpose.

The arrest of former male performer Donny Long is a very big deal and maybe one of the most significant arrests for our industry of the decade.

He wasn’t just an angry, bitter ex-performer. He was one of the most dangerous and damaging people in the adult industry who harmed literally thousands of people. But don’t take these words lightly. These specific words carry a very big weight, and they aren’t said lightly.

Donny Long Mugshot

There was a time when if you said what I just did, your legal name, home address, and the names and home addresses of every member of your immediate family would be released. It happened to me, and it happened to thousands of others.

You didn’t dare speak out against the abuse in our industry. We were nothing but “lying whores,” and if we dared to speak up, all of our personal information would be outed.

And the more you fought back, the more information about you would get leaked. Imagine if you had children. Their photos, along with information about what school they attended, would get posted. Letters and images of some of your work would be mailed to your neighbors. Letters would go out to members of your children’s school as well, including every PTA member.

Imagine your grandma getting sent your porn. Now imagine every person who lives on the same street as your grandma also getting that information. It just never ended. One guy’s mother ended up killing herself after someone sent her information stating her son did gay porn. He, in fact, did not do gay porn. But who cares about something like the truth when fucking with people? Terrorizing them was so much more fun, right?

This isn’t new. It’s something we’ve been fighting for years. More than two decades of repeated threats and abuse. Not just to me, but thousands of women in our industry were directly affected by this.

Twelve years ago, The Young Turks, a popular YouTube political channel with nearly 6 million subscribers, talked about PornWikiLeaks.

For those who are new to the case, watch that video first to really see just how crazy this story gets, and that’s just the very beginning of it.

But keep in mind this all happened at a time when online privacy laws were iffy at best and mostly related to credit card information.

Times, however, have changed, and what you might have been able to get away with back then will land you in serious trouble today.

Today, you can’t post photos of an officer of the court and their children and post that information on the internet along with their names, home addresses, and other personal information.

The second you start posting pictures of a judge with her children, you are going to get your ass in trouble. That’s just how it works nowadays. You can’t post the name of a judge’s daughter and imply (even if jokingly) that you had sex with her.

But he didn’t just stop with one judge or her children. He would call other members of the court, corrupt and pedophiles, and say that the court system was run by “mostly black African American man-hating lesbian leftist.”

Now, every state is different, but many states have similar laws. So keep in mind that if you have a case, your situation and circumstances could be different based on the laws in your local jurisdiction. If you have any legal questions, you should always contact a lawyer in your area.

Accessing someone’s email.

Creating fake social media accounts using their name and pretending to be them. If you create a social media account meant to intimidate another person, that violates statutes in many areas of the US.

If you send a message online intended to harass or embarrass another person and initiate any communication with them that includes obscene comment(s) or if you call someone and cause their phone to ring repeatedly, if you make a call and you don’t hang up, or and/or if you send repeated communications that you are meant to annoy someone, or embarrass or offend, you might have violated statues.

On December 14, 2016, 14 Jane Doe’s sued the owners of Girls Do Porn in civil court because, at the time, the criminal courts wouldn’t get involved. Their claim was simple: we were hired by a company (GirlsDoPorn.com) to create an adult video, which they were told would be distributed overseas, and nobody in the US would ever see it.

They would offer a larger than normal amount for these films, so the 14 girls at the time all agreed. However, many of them, when they arrived, were told things like oh, you don’t look like your photos, so we can’t pay you the $2,000 or $4,000 (the amount varied) that we originally said, best we can do is a few hundred bucks.

The videos were all released in the US as they had always been intended to do so. Since, however, consent is conditional, they sued. Their consent was based on the original promises, and since those things weren’t true, they didn’t technically consent.  Consent is key in sexual activity.

Over and over in the initial complaint, you’ll find references to the PornWikiLeaks website that was later sold by Donny Long to BangBros.

These are the very same people who are now suing Pornhub.

These 62 women (up from the original 14) say they were forced, defrauded, or coerced into making explicit films by GirlsDoPorn are suing the parent company of PornHub, claiming “illegal publication of the sex trafficking videos.”

Let’s just say it’s all a very complicated case that may have a big impact on the adult industry on both a state level in Florida and quite possibly on a federal level.

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