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The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers
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.
Apprantly this looks to be like the RIAA's "wet dream" of how to punish the oh so evil downloaders.... and while they may try to pull this crap in the USA, what about people all around the world who might have downloaded this? Seems to me like these guys have no clue about how the internet and torrents work, and how they actually would enforce people to literally delete all copies of this movie.. What, would they send RIAA thugs to every home and hold a gun to a persons head and watch while they delete "The Hurt locker"?
Sheesh
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These folks already suffered through this film is suing them really fair?
Bring it on you bunch oh fuckin cunts!
I guess you work for free too, right?
"bluray-quality drm-free online store"
Why DRM-free? I thought you just cared about it being a click away. "DRM-free" is code for "easy to pirate".
If they are using bitorrent, that uploads while you download, so I guess thats that.
What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.
Lack of DRM makes it easy to get the movie onto TPB in the first place.
The government should pay for the movies to be made. It's completely ridiculous that these corporate types get fat paychecks just for trying to produce some "movie." The government could do so much better by cutting out all the fat cat paychecks that get written to people that aren't even really involved in the making of the movie other than rubber stamping the plan. We should at least have a free public option for movies.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
And this justifies downloading it how?
If instead of movies it was a pair of jeans or a car, even the kids would realize they are criminals. Put stealing on a computer and somehow some people think it's ok..
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
Agreed. Had I paid to see it, I would have asked for my money back. (Does that mean they owe me $150,000 or whatever it is they claim a single copy is worth?)
As a somewhat ironic twist, however, the movie's protagonist regularly buys pirated DVDs. Smells like hypocrisy to me.
He who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
Agreed. Had I paid to see it, I would have asked for my money back.
So if you like a movie, does that mean you pay afterwards? You are a thief. You take the product of someone's labors against their will and offer nothing in return. That has nothing to do with whether what you steal meets your personal standards.
So in your country they let people steal music and movies? Perhaps it's ok because it's american (and probably some british and french) IP that you're stealing and they're so rich they wont even miss it. Well you're wrong.
As in every society, a few artists achieve great fame and are granted equally great rewards. But most are simply making a living. And when the fruit of their collective labors is suddenly devalued simply because they can no longer stop people from stealing it (i.e., taking it from them when they did not agree to give it to you), they suffer greatly.
It's gonna get copied. Deal with it.
You're a thief. Deal with it.