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P2P Litigation Crippled In DC District Court Ruling
An anonymous reader writes "In a stunning defeat for the US Copyright Group, DC District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer is forcing copyright holders to sue only those over whom the DC court has personal jurisdiction. The USCG has sued in the DC court more than 4,500 people on behalf of a German producer that created the Far Cry movie. But the Judge is having none of that; in her ruling [Friday], Judge Collyer stated that only those who are in the DC court's jurisdiction can be sued — shrinking what could have been a windfall of defendant's cash to perhaps a mere trickle."
The USCG has sued over 4,500 people on behalf of a German producer that created the Far Cry movie in the DC court.
I don't see how the judge can be impartial if he let them make the movie in his court.
I want that woman considered for the next Supreme vacancy!
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
Civil, not criminal. Preponderance of evidence - IOW, "more likely than not" - is the standard.
What exactly don't you like about my films?
Their existence.
The problem then isn't bittorrent.
It's sue-happy companies that honestly do not give a shit if they hit innocent victims.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/1339220/Anti-Piracy-Lawyers-Knew-Letters-Hit-Innocents
These fuckers need disbarred for sending frivolous legal notices.
I doubt they will, because that's just how corrupt the system is.
Uh, you do know that a 12(b)(2) dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction is not a dismissal with prejudice or on the merits? They can simply refile this elsewhere, without the new judge being bound by this dismissal. 12(b)(2) motions are procedural, and don't reach the actual case.