23,000 File Sharers Targeted In Latest Lawsuit 386
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."
In response (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This can't be right. (Score:5, 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.
Not Plausible (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I wonder what would happen... (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.
Re:Busy Work... (Score:0, Funny)
what would be really nice is for 23,000 pissed off folks to do a one day door knock on the US Copyright Group and the later that day the homes of the directors of same group , You can bet a lot of police wont turn out for the simple reason they are on the list so if they got any sense they will be on said door removing exercise .
Companies like this are not going to be bothered by thew courts they freakin well OWN the courts and the judges , There is only one way to hurt people like this a Very Public Take down .
You may whimp out but then it is you not me that is going to get one of the ever growing number of bogus lawsuits so you either take action and fix the problem or just carry on with the blinkers on and let what amounts to well paid Thugs control you take your pick are you men or mice
They should sue the IP addresses! (Score:4, Funny)
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!