23,000+ Expendables torrent downloaders to be subpoenaed to court
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Biggest BitTorrent Downloading Case in U.S. History Targets 23,000 Defendants:
At least 23,000 file sharers soon will likely get notified they are being sued for downloading the Expendables in what has become the single largest illegal-BitTorrent-downloading case in U.S. history.
A federal judge in the case has agreed to allow the U.S. Copyright Group to subpoena internet service providers to find out the identity of everybody who had illegally downloaded (.pdf) the 2010 Sylvester Stallone flick — meaning the number of defendants is likely to dramatically increase as new purloiners are discovered. Once an ISP gets the subpoena, it usually notifies the account holder that his or her subscriber information is being turned over to the Copyright Group, which last year pioneered the practice of suing BitTorrent downloaders in the United States.
4 comentarii:
they should be happy that someone wanted at least to download it, such a bad movie...
great Im living in Europe then!
well said man, atleast some people dared to download it (such a movie is not worth the 'theater experience'). And on the second note.. what if they start charging people this hefty amount all around for all the downloads....
People getting sued 150k for downloading a movie...sad fucking place this country is