‘Hurt Locker’ Studio Suits Against 24,583 BitTorrent Users

[308Mike]

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‘Hurt Locker’ Studio to File Suits Against 24,583 BitTorrent Users
By Todd Haselton Published May 25, 2011
| BGR

The production studio behind the movie Hurt Locker, Voltage Pictures, is attempting to go after a record 24,583 illegal BitTorrent users.

The studio has already filed lawsuits against 5,000 BitTorrent users who illegally downloaded Hurt Locker and, in an effort to make up losses due to piracy, it’s now going after more with the help of law firm Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver.

According to TorrentFreak, the lion’s share of subscribers — provided on a list to the U.S. District Court of Columbia — are Comcast customers (10,532). 5,239 are Verizon subscribers, 2,699 are Charter customers, and 1,750 are Time Warner users.

The lawsuits will likely be tried over the next several years, however, as Verizon and Charter only offer up 100 and 150 customer IP-addresses per month.

TorrentFreak suggested that Voltage Pictures would prefer to reach cash settlements with customers as opposed to taking each case to court individually.

This content was originally published on BGR.com

[Matthew Mayner]

Will these guys ever learn? Didn't they follow the Napster debacle with the record companies?

[HTRN]

Makes wonder how many of those 24K users will trace back to the likes of Panera Bread, McDs and other accessable free wifi hotspots.