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Five Men Indicted For Uploading Movies & Then Extorting ‘Pirate’ Downloaders

TorrentFreak

After playing the victim for years, an investigation found that the law firm uploaded movies to sites like The Pirate Bay and then sued those who downloaded them. Movies covered by these licenses subsequently turned up on BitTorrent networks and people who downloaded them began receiving legal threats.

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RCN Asks Court to Dismiss ‘Copyright Trolls’ Piracy Liability Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Some of the companies involved have previously gone after individual pirates from which they obtained settlements, and the ISP puts them in the “copyright troll” corner, a label the filmmakers have previously rejected. “Plaintiffs and Maverickeye are part of a well-known web of copyright trolls.

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‘Hacker Used Victim’s Email Address to Sign Up with Pirate Site YTS’

TorrentFreak

Early last year the operators of YTS signed a settlement agreement with several movies studios, which put many of the site’s users at risk. The settlement ensured that YTS could continue to operate. And despite sending many copyright infringement notices, these services failed to take meaningful action in response.

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‘Copyright Troll’ On Route to File Record Number of Piracy Lawsuits This Year

TorrentFreak

The company, known for its Blacked, Tushy, and Vixen brands, targets people whose Internet connections were allegedly used to download and share copyright-infringing content via BitTorrent. Track, Sue and Settle These efforts, often referred to as so-called ‘copyright-trolling’, are pretty straightforward.

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ISPs Fail to Dismiss Filmmakers’ Piracy Liability Lawsuits

TorrentFreak

Until now, Plaintiffs’ modus operandi has been to file John Doe lawsuits in the hope of securing quick settlements and to dismiss them at the slightest resistance,” they wrote. argued that an IP address is not sufficient to prove that subscribers downloaded or shared any infringing material. Something More?

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Movie Studios Sue Grande Communications: Terminate Pirates, Block The Pirate Bay

TorrentFreak

In 2017 the RIAA sued Grande Communications for failing to take meaningful action against customers who allegedly carried out more than a million BitTorrent-based infringements. According to the movie companies, Grande knew that its customers used its service to routinely download and upload their copyrights work in breach of copyright.

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Strike 3 Holdings Infringement

LexBlog IP

One thing I know for sure, people who use BitTorrent or other related applications and download adult movies can find themselves in quite a bind. People make mistakes, but should you have to pony up your life savings to avoid a copyright infringement lawsuit? This company needs to be reigned in, people are SUFFERING BIG TIME!