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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Thousands Downloader of The Hurt Locker will be officially Threatened by Lawsuit

Los Angeles: Team of lawyers representing the producers of the film TheHurt Locker has identified the IP addresses of 24,583 BitTorrentusers, who download copies of the Oscar-winning movie. Similarly,the reported page of Contactmusic.com, Sunday (29 / 5). Not only that, they alsoplan to sue the owners of those addresses for copyright infringement.

Thousands Downloader of The Hurt Locker will be officially Threatened by Lawsuit

According to TorrentFreak.com, which tracks the access of BitTorrent and released a complete list of24,584 IP addresses. Now, the case of The Hurt Locker is emerging as the largest file-sharing lawsuit ever filed. Of that amount, 82 percent are customers of the four ISPs, namelyComcast (10 532), Verizon (5239), Charter (2699) and TimeWarner Cable (1750). Each ISP has indicated that the process ofconnecting personal information, including name and address. However, they do not plan to wait again and ready to send noticesto the violators of their cases by paying fines of $ 2,000. According to TorrentFreak observations, if as many as 10,000 offenders end up paying a $ 2,000 settlement, this will bring profits of U.S. $ 20million. For comparison, the figure exceeds the profits of The HurtLocker Box Office at the United States, which amounted to U.S. $ 17 million