Nearly 50 000 users of the BitTorrent client downloads are in the sights of U.S. justice, accused of downloading - just look - two copyrighted movies.
Both actions are being filed separately by Voltage Pictures, who made his lawyers turning on 25 000 sailors for allegedly pirating the annoying the Oscar-winning War on Terror, 2009, and put 23 000 others against the wall by downloading the blockbuster The pseudo Mercenaries, 2010.
The two lawsuits were filed in federal court in the U.S. for such a Copyrigth Group, with the law firm of Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver. The procedure for the movie The Mercenaries was opened in February and the War on Terror, in May.
"They are copyright trolls," said Corynne McSherry, director of intellectual property of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an NGO known for championing the digital rights to CNN. "They have a dragnet approach to litigation," he adds.
Already a spokesman for the studio responsible for the processes to the network news said that his lawyers "are doing their job." "Someone stole one of our intellectual property and we are trying to recover it," he adds.
The amazing thing is that to reach these users, the studio managed to get justice intimate providers like Comcast and Time Warner Cable to deliver data to users who have been caught doing file transfer. "Time Warner fought the subpoenas, and most PIs serve 100 to 150 users a month," said Eric Menhart network news. "Some of the subpoenaed will have to travel thousands of miles to the court in Washington," he adds.
The studio wants each one of the alleged pirates pay a fine of U.S. $ 2 000. As the site points to Torrent Freak, "only" 10,000 of the defendants are convicted, the studio would raise $ 20 million, while the War on Terror grossed only $ 17 million in ticket sales.
