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US Copyright Group (USCG) has made a list of over 23,000 IP addresses of BitTorrent file-sharers it alleges of unauthorized downloads of Sylvester Stallone’s movie Expendables. Eventually, US District judge has approved USCG’s motion for discovery on ISPs to reveal their real names.
Now the USCG is gearing up for probably the largest unauthorized file-sharing case ever. The news is that the law firm has compiled a list of 23,322 IP addresses, all of which are already approved for discovery by the country’s District Judge Robert Wilkins. All the unknown defendants are suspected of unauthorized downloading of Sylvester Stallone’s movie Expendables. Actually, the USCG has been preparing to sue BitTorrent file-sharers since January.
Robert Wilkins approved the request of the US Copyright Group for subpoenaing the Internet service providers over the alleged IP addresses in March 2011, but the list was only 6,500 back then. As we can see, it now stands at over 23,000 (and counting), which shows the earnestness of the law firm in seeing this effort through.
Nevertheless, questions over the validity of the lawsuit still remain, because the company has already tried to target over 20,000 BitTorrent file-sharers in another lawsuit, but without much success. For example, recently US District Judge required the USCG to alter the list of defendants in such way that there were only those individuals whom the UCSG reasonably believes the court has jurisdiction over. Thus, the court refused to accept the possibility to join many people into a single lawsuit just because they were “part of a swarm” sharing copyrighted content.
In the current lawsuit some of the unknown defendants also reside outside the court’s jurisdiction. However, at the moment Judge Wilkins has not delivered any ruling over this issue. The next point of concern is the recent Judge Harold A. Baker’s decision to refuse a Canadian adult entertainment company’s discovery on personal details of over 1,000 people suspected of unauthorized downloading on the grounds that some of the accused may be innocent. That time the judge referred to the case of a raid by FBI which resulted in discovery that the person responsible of infringement was the neighbor of the suspected family.
Anyway, one may wonder what Sylvester Stallone thinks about the lawsuit, which is most likely targeting people that also went to the theaters to watch the movie.
Now the USCG is gearing up for probably the largest unauthorized file-sharing case ever. The news is that the law firm has compiled a list of 23,322 IP addresses, all of which are already approved for discovery by the country’s District Judge Robert Wilkins. All the unknown defendants are suspected of unauthorized downloading of Sylvester Stallone’s movie Expendables. Actually, the USCG has been preparing to sue BitTorrent file-sharers since January.
Robert Wilkins approved the request of the US Copyright Group for subpoenaing the Internet service providers over the alleged IP addresses in March 2011, but the list was only 6,500 back then. As we can see, it now stands at over 23,000 (and counting), which shows the earnestness of the law firm in seeing this effort through.
Nevertheless, questions over the validity of the lawsuit still remain, because the company has already tried to target over 20,000 BitTorrent file-sharers in another lawsuit, but without much success. For example, recently US District Judge required the USCG to alter the list of defendants in such way that there were only those individuals whom the UCSG reasonably believes the court has jurisdiction over. Thus, the court refused to accept the possibility to join many people into a single lawsuit just because they were “part of a swarm” sharing copyrighted content.
In the current lawsuit some of the unknown defendants also reside outside the court’s jurisdiction. However, at the moment Judge Wilkins has not delivered any ruling over this issue. The next point of concern is the recent Judge Harold A. Baker’s decision to refuse a Canadian adult entertainment company’s discovery on personal details of over 1,000 people suspected of unauthorized downloading on the grounds that some of the accused may be innocent. That time the judge referred to the case of a raid by FBI which resulted in discovery that the person responsible of infringement was the neighbor of the suspected family.
Anyway, one may wonder what Sylvester Stallone thinks about the lawsuit, which is most likely targeting people that also went to the theaters to watch the movie.
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