Hurt Locker P2P Lawsuits Move On To Canada
Hurt Locker P2P Lawsuits Move On To Canada
Posted 09/09/2011 at 2:31pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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By now, US torrent users are used to the nagging worry that a copyright holder could seek damages against them. Now these mass lawsuits appear to be making the journey to Canada, where Voltage pictures is seeking the identities of users they claim have pirated the film Hurt Locker. Major ISPs have been subpoenaed, but the number of defendants is not yet available.
Back in early 2010, Voltage Pictures, the makers of the Oscar-winning film Hurt Locker, began suing to uncover the people behind thousands of IP addresses. Voltage Pictures contends that these IPs were spotted downloading the film via torrents. In most cases, judges granted the subpoenas and ISPs had to divulge customer details. Instead of suing outright, Voltage had its legal counsel extract settlements from the defendants.
Now the same scheme is playing out up north. A court in Montreal gave the thumbs up to Voltage and its legal counsel two weeks ago. Today is the deadline for three Canadian ISPs to hand over the records. It’s unclear if the same settlement shakedown is going to happen in Canada, but we have to imagine it will.
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h e x e n
September 12, 2011 at 4:27am
This kind of action falls right in line with them "buying" the best picture award over Avatar. Hell, MOON should have gotten it over both. But at least Avatar pushed technical boundaries and changed the way we view and percieve entertainment, or at least brought it to the masses. Hurt Locker is a dull, unentertaining and unrealistic portrayel of current events overseas. Its story arc is non existent, the main characters are never developed and the film has piss poor editing.
Speaking of which, who would pirate this disaster crap pile of a movie? Hurt Locker is quite possibly the worst film I HAVE EVER seen. Man, that movie was bad. It pisses me off just thinking about it. Anyone remember the Barret scene? "I'll just pick this rifle up, of which I have no training in, and get headshots on moving targets, but miss the stationary ones. Herp de derp derp!"
And it was praised for its realism. lmao
I hope they ride a gigantic boat into fail town with this lawsuit.
Meat_Juice
September 11, 2011 at 12:40am
Just had a federal election here. As a result I'm pretty confident the current sitting government will let its people take another in the ass. They have an established track record of allowing foreign interests to do just that.
Ghok
September 09, 2011 at 4:54pm
The Canadian media is not covering this, which is a real shame since so many people here would be outraged.
It's a little outrageous if these ISPs or the court just roll over because a lawyer from a foreign country tells them to.
compro01
September 12, 2011 at 7:04am
Of course not. Why would CTV (owned by Bell) air its own dirty laundry?
Furthermore, Global (owned by Shaw) is unlikely to say anything as they're likely next in line to roll.
al360ex
September 09, 2011 at 3:12pm
How can they know to which computer the IP address was assigned to ? I'm pretty sure ISPs don't keep this sort of records for very long, certainly not 3 years. So if the IP address I know have is in one of their database, I might get sued by them for something I didn't do. I live in Quebec, and I think that it really sucks hard.
CaptainFabulous
September 09, 2011 at 3:01pm
I guess when you can't get US courts to back your extortion scheme you move to another country and try again. With any luck Canuck courts will also tell you to go fuck yourselves.
chronium
September 09, 2011 at 2:50pm
It's doubtful that they will be successful with settlement shakedowns because it's legal to download anything however it is not legal to be a seeder in Canada.
blkpanthr
September 09, 2011 at 5:42pm
im sure they will argue that leechers are technically seeding...
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