'Hurt Locker' bosses target movie pirates

[Storming]

The movie piracy battle has exploded into life ? the bosses behind 'The Hurt Locker' have begun a multi-million dollar lawsuit against those who watched the Oscar winning film illegally.
Voltage Pictures are teaming up with the U.S Copyright Group, to sue thousands of individuals who downloaded the bomb disposal thriller illegally on BitTorrent in America.


The U.S Copyright Group has already filed lawsuits over a number of other films, including 'Far Cry' and 'Uncross the Stars'. A lawyer at the firm who are preparing the lawsuit, Thomas Dunlap, said, "You can guess that relative to the films we've pursued already, the order of magnitude is much higher with the 'Hurt Locker'."
According to the Hollywood Reporter, once the lawsuits are filed those that have been sued must subpoena ISP records in order to see if their IP addresses match that with illegal use on BitTorrent.
Dunlap added that of the 50,000 people sued so far only a handful have tried to get the subpoena quashed.
Despite the film's Oscar winning success, it was something of a flop at the US box office, but the law suit could potentially earn them millions of pounds.




Source: Yahoo

Storming Reviewed by Storming on 12th May 2010. 'Hurt Locker' bosses target movie pirates The movie piracy battle has exploded into life ? the bosses behind 'The Hurt Locker' have begun a multi-million dollar lawsuit against those who watched the Oscar winning film illegally. Voltage Pictures are teaming up with the U.S Copyright Group, to sue thousands of individuals who downloaded the bomb disposal thriller illegally on BitTorrent in America. The U.S Copyright Group has already filed lawsuits over a number of other films, including 'Far Cry' and 'Uncross the Stars'. A Rating: 5

[TheShadowOne]

Serves them right for using bittorrent, always use protection.

[EsotorisK]

Thats why I download from Rapidshare, because they handle their own laws.

[DJGaurav]

Thats why i go to cinemas rater than downloading movies

[EsotorisK]

I hardly see you offline bro and I know you download movies using my rapidshare account.

[zakuza]

RISK FTW! Australian laws isn't that harsh here. Probably would get some community service with no fine for the first time .

[CasaNova]

this piece of shit film should not be able to sue anyone. i think we should file a lawsuit against them for releasing such a bs movie and robbin avatar of its oscars.

[tres]

^^
lol..

[Sponge Bob]

lol poor guys of that place... its dangerous now to download from there

[-Im.z2ight-]

I watch everything in the movie theatre.