Lawyer Kenneth J. Ford of Martinsville, West Virginia filed more than 22,000 “John Doe” lawsuits in 2010 against people across the country, accusing them of downloading super-raunchy films like Teen Anal Nightmare 2 and Juicy White Anal Booty 4 from the Internet.
2,000 miles away, Colorado lawyer David Kerr found out about the cases in an odd way. “The first client that walked through my door was a young woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown,” Kerr told me last year when I profiled Ford and his work. “She had never illegally downloaded anything in her life, and now she was getting a letter from some attorney in West Virginia accusing her of downloading hard-core pornography.”