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The Hurt Locker is known in BitTorrent circles as more than just an Oscar winning blockbuster, but also the poster child for movie industry lawsuits. The maker of the film, Voltage Pictures, has been working alongside the U.S. Copyright Group to pursue over 24,583 IP address across almost a dozen ISP’s. Up until recently the lawsuit has only been expanding, but now suddenly the folks over at TorrentFreak are reporting that all but 2,300 of the defendants are being dropped from the case.
A list of IP addresses being spared the wrath of the U.S. Copyright Group has been posted publically for all too see, but we suspect that after looking at how much work it was to track down the identities of that many individuals, they simply decided to hunker down and concentrate on a select few.
The exact reasons for the change of course remains little more than speculation however, and we also still don’t know how many of the defendants decided to settle out of court. It’s also worth noting that the dropped cases are being done so without prejudice, so it’s still possible for them to change their minds yet again.
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aferrara50
October 03, 2011 at 3:08pm
They're being dropped because of litigation costs or settlements.
OliverSudden
October 02, 2011 at 8:40pm
Write on, brother (see what I did there?)
I'm not sure when apostrophe-s became the go-to thing when boys and girls of the internet wish to pluralize a word but if left unchecked, a hundred years from now every word that ends in 's' will have an apostrophe before it. Additionally, 'your' will mean both the possessive as well as 'you are.'
Fight the moron, MaxPC. Fight it!!
theplustwo
October 03, 2011 at 8:17am
Normally I don't like to be a grammar nazi, but friend's Facebook status is one thing, headlines on a respectable news website are another
austin43
October 02, 2011 at 1:43pm
I'll be waiting for the other 2300 of them to be dropped within the next few years. There are two outspoken sides on the piracy argument both of which make good points, so it's hard to take a side here.
warptek2010
October 02, 2011 at 8:21pm
Not hard for me... I never want to hear the labels "Big Oil", "Big Pharmaceuticals" from the media or politicians or pundits, unless we can also start using terms like "Big Hollywood", "Big Music", "Big Eco Green" and most important - "Big Media". They need to stop pretending they're some little victim. These are huge, mega corporations worth 100's of millions and billions in assets going after little people under the guise of "lost revenue" and "intellectual property" but in reality to make absolute examples of them. It's nothing more than corporate thuggery on the same level as caught cheating in a casino and taken into the "back room".
At least in the case of oil and pharmaceuticals they produce something that we definitely need in our lives. The Big Media?... meh, not so much.
