Low-Budget Movie Companies Using BitTorrent Lawsuits As Business Strategy
April 2, 2011
David Kravets writes in Wired:
On March 7, Camelot Distribution Group, an obscure film company in Los Angeles, unveiled its latest and potentially most profitable release: a federal lawsuit against BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the company’s 2010 B-movie revenge flick Nude Nuns With Big Guns between January and March of this year. The single lawsuit targets 5,865 downloaders, making it theoretically worth as much as $879,750,000 — more money than the U.S. box-office gross for Avatar.
At the moment, the targets of the litigation are unknown, even to Camelot. The mass lawsuit lists the internet IP addresses of the downloaders (.pdf), and asks a federal judge to order ISPs around the country to dig into their records for each customer’s name.
It’s the first step in a process that could lead to each defendant getting a personalized letter in the mail from Camelot’s attorneys suggesting they settle the case, lest they wind up named in a public lawsuit as having downloaded Nude Nuns With Big Guns.
A hearing on that request is set for April 13. In all probability none of the alleged downloaders know it’s happening.
Welcome to the future of Hollywood, or at least the less glittery outskirts of Tinsel Town that produce art films, exploitation flicks and porn. Over the past year, small-budget film producers have nearly perfected a slick, courtroom-based business strategy that’s targeted more than 130,000 suspected movie downloaders.
For more information, see original article.
Comment
-
Comment by Marklar on April 4, 2011 at 8:24am
-
Interesting development Laser. Thanks.
-
Comment by Jaya Madhava das aka M.J. Koval on April 4, 2011 at 4:26am
-
Whats happening to people are they just greedy NUTS or BOTH
The honest public-wont sell their films-+ deserves the Right to share anything they want -without their Nazi control FREAK attitudes,,,,we must fight back !
Hitler Hollywood scare tactics and law suits....To Hell with them. ! FIGHT EM !!! Fight Back !!!!!!
-
Comment by TheLasersShadow on April 4, 2011 at 3:31am
-
Studio Suing BitTorrent Pirates Does Not Own the Movie, Records Show
- By David Kravets
- April 1, 2011 |
- 5:42 pm |
- Categories: The Ridiculous, intellectual property
A film company suing 5,865 BitTorrent downloaders over the flick Nude Nuns with Big Guns doesn’t own the rights to the movie, according to court documents and interviews.Incentive Capital of Utah took ownership last month of the B-rated flick about a sister who is “one Bad Mother.” Yet two weeks after Incentive Capital foreclosed and assumed Camelot Distribution Group’s titles because of an allegedly soured loan, Camelot filed a mass copyright lawsuit (.pdf) on behalf of Nude Nuns claiming it owned the rights.
***
“They’re holding themselves out as the owner of a title they don’t own,” Pia said. Incentive is also suing Camelot for $2 million on contract breach allegations (.pdf).
It's like that scene from pulp fiction... they thought they were going to do the nasty on several thousand people getting them to settle out of court. Sure enough it turns out they sold the copyright and now they're going to be the ones grabbing their ankles. THATS JUSTICE!!! I hope those punks end up broke in cardboard boxes.
- By David Kravets
-
-
Of course the studio will be relying on people settling without a fight since the only way these IPs can be collected is for the studio to record them from a server that is seeding the file(s). In other words the legal copyright holder is the source of the only files they can prove to have been downloaded. Hence all copies were in fact legal and no infringement can be shown to have occurred.
"Destroying the New World Order"
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE SITE!
Latest Activity
- Top News
- Everything
How Ukraine Revolutionized Warfare and Stopped Putin
A war that Vladimir Putin sold to his people that would be a cake walk that would be over in a few…See More
Linda Moulton Howe Reopens the Antarctica Mystery With New Claims
Linda Moulton Howe has reopened a file she guarded for twenty-five years, and nearly every witness inside it is now gone. It holds testimony about Antarctica...
FB_IMG_1790355245884
"There was no 6 million! See Red Cross, put Jewish deaths during WWII at 277,000! German…"
The De-intellectualizing of the West!
One of the saddest aspects of reducing a society into chaos and division is propaganda, which is…See More
The file of shame - Zandvoort - one of the largest covered-up paedophile scandals
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Alaskan Triangle US Air Force Loses 5 Aircraft
The year is 1950 and the US and Soviet Union are locked in a crucial arms race that epitomizes the…See More
Is this an Undeclared War We are Technologically Losing?
Incident No. 1The year is 1980 and in US Air Force records this incident is still classified so…See More
THE PAPER CHAINS
"Well from now on this fight is up to Amerian People to win it. I'm afraid that all wars you…"
Top German Panzer Ace of WWII Meets His End Finally
On the battlefields of the eastern and western fronts there was a scourge for the Germans who had…See More
© 2026 Created by truth.
Powered by
You need to be a member of 12160 Social Network to add comments!
Join 12160 Social Network