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23,000 File Sharers Targeted In Latest Lawsuit

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-big-or-go-home dept.

wiedzmin writes "Subpoenas are expected to go out to ISPs this week in what could be the biggest BitTorrent downloading case in US history. At least 23,000 file sharers are being targeted by the US Copyright Group for downloading The Expendables. The Copyright Group appears to have adopted Righthaven's strategy in blanket-suing large numbers of defendants and offering an option to quickly settle online for a moderate payment. The IP addresses of defendants have allegedly been collected by paid snoops capturing lists of all peers who were downloading or seeding Sylvester Stallone's flick last year. I am curious to see how this will tie into the BitTorrent case ruling made earlier this month indicating that an IP address does not uniquely identify the person behind it."

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  1. In response by Ghjnut · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should countersue for the time they lost watching the movie.

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  2. Re:This can't be right. by plover · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that really means 3,000 people wanted the movie, and 20,000 screwed up their searches and accidentally tried to download "The".

    It's the only rational explanation.

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  3. Not Plausible by Greyfox · · Score: 2, Funny

    They would have us believe 23000 people took the time to download a Sylvester Stallone flick?

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  4. Re:I wonder what would happen... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What if all 23,000 file sharers each ponied up $50 dollars to make the problem go away? And by make the problem go away I mean hire some professional hit men to brutally kill a bunch of the lawyers who thought suing 23,000 people would be a good idea. I reckon that for 11.5 million dollars you could buy yourself a great big heap of dead lawyers.

  5. They should sue the IP addresses! by martin-boundary · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am curious to see how this will tie into the BitTorrent case ruling made earlier this month indicating that an IP address does not uniquely identify the person behind it."

    Easy! From now on, only IP addresses can be sued for infringement. If one of them loses, it goes straight back into the ICANN IPv4 pool. That way, not only do the lawyers get to sue a number of IP, but the movie pirates get to save the internet without all this complicated IPv6 nonsense!