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New Round of P2P Lawsuits from Hollywood

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the at-it-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There is a new story on ZDNet about more lawsuits against P2P file sharers. The catch is that Hollywood is using the log files off Bit Torrent sites like Suprnova and LokiTorrent."

2 of 442 comments (clear)

  1. From TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The group previously said in February that a Texas court had ordered that the server logs of one big site, called LokiTorrent, be turned over to Hollywood investigators. An MPAA spokeswoman said that none of Thursday's suits were related to that action, however.

    OP didn't RTFA in the first place.

  2. Re:Oh goody. by Jason1729 · · Score: 4, Informative

    No court in the world recognizes "copyright infingement" as theft. In the example being discussed, nothing was stolen and paid back later.