How a Virginia Law Firm Outpaces the MPAA at Suing Over Movie Downloads

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 2, 2010 @03:55AM from the shame-if-anything-was-t'-happen dept.

Jamie points out this Ars Technica piece on a series of suits brought by the Virginia law firm of Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver against users they accuse of illegally downloading movies. The firm has an interesting business model in these suits; sue enough users in a DC Federal court to be worth splitting the sum of many small settlement offers (generally $1,500-2,500 apiece) with the filmmakers, rather than rely on winning after trial a small number of larger judgments. Most people settle, and Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver has so far named more than 14,000 "Does" — as in John Doe — including, as mentioned a few days ago, 5,000 who downloaded The Hurt Locker.

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5000 people downloaded the hurt locker by retardpicnic · 2010-06-02 04:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

WTF?! This means members of the tea party are learning to use the interwebs. All are base will belong to them!

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Re:Attorney Emails by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-02 06:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Not their children. Keep it classy /. No one should be punished for the sins of their parents.