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The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers

Posted by Soulskill on from the tilting-at-windmills dept.

Voltage Pictures, the production company behind 2008's Oscar-winning Iraq war film The Hurt Locker, today sued 5,000 people who illegally downloaded the movie over BitTorrent. Quoting CNET: "Attorneys for Voltage wrote in the complaint that unless the court stops the people who pirate The Hurt Locker then Voltage will suffer 'great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money.' Voltage has asked the court to prevent those who downloaded the movie without paying for it from downloading its movies ever again, and order them to destroy all copies of The Hurt Locker from their computers and any other electronic devices they may have transferred the film to. As for monetary damages, the movie's producers want those found to have pilfered the movie to pay actual or statutory damages and cover the costs that went into filing the suits." According to the complaint (PDF), the 5,000 infringers are known only by their IP addresses at this time.

6 of 861 comments (clear)

  1. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    post

  2. The first movie by orient · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I fell asleep watching - in a long time!

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    Laudele lor desigur m-ar mahni peste masura.
    1. Re:The first movie by lidocaineus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Troll? Some people have a strange definition of the word...

  3. Good Grief by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've never even seen this movie. And I work for the military (20 years AF, 10 years DoD Civilian).

    I assumed it was just another Born On The Fourth Of July / Full Metal Jacket / [ insert gritty war movie here ] extravaganza.

    Or yet another "Gulf War" glorification...

    Fuck 'em.

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    "Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
  4. Movie was lame anyway by liquidsgi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I did not want to see it as I hate combat movies. Now, I am going to boycott any movies that come out of this studio.

  5. Re:Not this again... by imthesponge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Taking something without paying is stealing.