But Judge Enright decisively rejected that argument, pointing to numerous examples of fraud and coercion throughout the process of recruiting the models and shooting the videos.
Pratt himself owned PornWikiLeaks, a site dedicated to outing the women on sites like GirlsDoPorn, for several months.
Do you like sex in all its manifestations? Once they arrived, the defendants argued, they signed binding contracts and then voluntarily went through with the porn shots.
However, the others were unwilling to face the risk of retaliation from the defendants or the humiliation of publicly re-living their experiences.
Of course, with the principals in jail or on the lam, it's not clear how they'll find time to try to recruit new models for the site.
To bolster this lie, the defendants paid other women to pose as former models and reassure recruits that they would have a positive experience and that their videos would remain private.