Hard Drive Productions, Inc. v. Doe, 2012 WL 90412 (E.D. Cal. July 11, 2012) In a mass copyright infringement suit, plaintiff served a subpoena on an internet service provider and got the identifying information for the account holder suspected of trading a copy of a movie via BitTorrent. The account holder was uncooperative with plaintiff’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bittorrent’
No deposition of account holder allowed until he is named as defendant in BitTorrent copyright case
January 17th, 2012
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ISP’s alleged throttling of BitTorrent and Skype violates Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
September 14th, 2011
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Fink v. Time Warner Cable, 2011 WL 3962607 (S.D.N.Y. September 7, 2011) Plaintiffs sued Time Warner (the provider of Road Runner High Speed Online internet access), alleging, among other things, that Time Warner’s alleged “throttling” of plaintiffs’ internet communications violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 USC 1030 (“CFAA”). Specifically, plaintiffs alleged that without [...]
Court deals blow to anonymous Bittorrent defendants’ efforts to challenge subpoenas
June 14th, 2011
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West Coast Productions v. Does 1 – 5,829, — F.Supp.2d —, 2011 WL 2292239 (D.D.C. June 10, 2011) The judge in one of the well-known mass copyright cases filed by Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver a/k/a U.S. Copyright Group (West Coast Productions v. Does 1 – 5,829) has issued an order denying motions to quash filed [...]
More subpoenas on the way to identify John Doe BitTorrent users in copyright cases
April 20th, 2011
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First Time Videos v. Does 1-37, 2011 WL 1431619 (N.D. California, April 14, 2011) Hard Drive Productions v. Does 1-118, 2011 WL 1431612 (N.D. California, April 14, 2011) There have been a couple of new cases filed in federal court in California alleging that unknown BitTorrent users committed copyright infringement and engaged in civil conspiracy [...]
Court leaves thousands of BitTorrent copyright infringement defendants joined in single action
March 28th, 2011
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Call of the Wild Movie v. Does 1 – 1,062 — F.Supp.2d —, 2011 WL 996786 (D.D.C. March 22, 2011) One of the craziest things about the copyright infringement lawsuits that have been brought against BitTorrent users accused of trading movies over the internet is the vast number of John Doe defendants that are usually [...]
Another massive porn Bittorrent copyright lawsuit in the Northern District of Illinois
December 4th, 2010
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MCGIP, LLC v. Does 1-1,164, No. 10-7675 (N.D.Ill., filed December 2, 2010) [Download Complaint] Filing of copyright infringement complaint will be precursor to more subpoenas seeking to identify unknown file-sharing defendants. Another porn company has filed a copyright lawsuit against hundreds of anonymous John Doe defendants who allegedly used the Bittorrent protocol to trade plaintiffs’ [...]
New copyright lawsuits go after porn on Bittorrent
September 3rd, 2010
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Three adult media entertainment producers filed suit yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging copyright infringement against hundreds of anonymous defendants accused of trading videos using Bittorrent. This kind of action resembles the much-criticized mass litigation undertaken by the U.S. Copyright Group against hordes of unknown accused Bittorrent users [...]
Anonymous accused Bittorrent user moves to quash subpoena using real name
May 25th, 2010
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Worldwide Film Entertainment, LLC v. Does 1-749, 2010 WL 2011306 (D.D.C. May 20, 2009) Some have already commented on their scruples arising from the large economies of scale approach to copyright litigation that’s being undertaken by lawyers with the U.S. Copyright Group to go after Bittorrent movie sharers. See, for example, what Mike Masnick and [...]
BitTorrent site liable for Grokster style inducement of copyright infringement
January 14th, 2010
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Columbia Pictures v. Fung, No. 06-5578 (C.D. Cal. December 21, 2009). This case came out three weeks ago, but it’s pretty significant and hasn’t gotten the coverage and analysis it deserves. Of course Professor Goldman covered it in a timely manner. But his blogging agility surpasses that of us mere mortals. Fung and his company [...]
TorrentSpy dinged for ediscovery violations
December 19th, 2007
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CNet News has a report on the decision here. Download the court’s order here. Columbia Pictures v. Bunnell, No. 06-1093, (C.D. Cal., December 13, 2007).
