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Anti torrent lawsuits making th news, seek to name infinging uploaders

This is good. Drag the fucking theives into the limelight.

http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/...one-viral.html

Quote:

In the past few weeks, massive numbers of alleged anonymous copyright pirates have been sued. It seems one adult entertainment studio after another is filing complaints against John Doe defendants.

Just yesterday, for example, three more lawsuits were filed on behalf of three different companies -- Hard Drive Prods, Lightspeed Media and Millenium TGA. Each is suing 100 nameless defendants accused of stealing copyrighted audio-visual works. The litigation follows at least three other suits filed in the past two weeks, targeting hundreds of others, over content ranging from gay erotica to the cult classic "Debbie Does Dallas."

The lawsuits yesterday were filed in Illinois District Court by a single lawyer, John L. Steele of the Media Copyright Group based in Chicago. Steele has set up a website advertising a "cost-effective solution for reducing P2P-based content piracy."

Here's the lawsuit filed on behalf of Hard Drive Prods, owner of the website Amateur Allure. The complaint describes BitTorrent protocol, alleges unauthorized distribution by a swarm of individuals, and lists various IP addresses whose users "will be revealed in discovery, at which time Plaintiff will seek leave of the Court to amend this Complaint to state those identities, if necessary."
Steele isn't the only lawyer seemingly influenced

and from a few weeks ago - south korean torrent uploaders getting in trouble...

http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/...orea-porn.html

Quote:

Sure, South Korea appears on the government's special 301 watch list of IP offenders around the world, but nary a word about the country's citizens being "heavy uploaders" of copyrighted adult material.

A group of 50 U.S. and Japanese adult entertainment studios are taking measures into their own hands, so to speak, filing a massive lawsuit against 10,000 South Korean individuals for uploading and 80 South Korean websites for "abetting or neglecting to supervise such illicit distribution."

The country has taken steps recently to rectify this problem, blocking foreign porn sites, but the adult content industry is not satisfied.

thats good and the more we hear getting popped the better

The Korean one was actually over a year ago.
http://www.xbiznewswire.com/view.php?id=111630

And the kicker is that apparently porn is illegal in South Korea.

oh right, i just looked at the month, lol.

it was a related article on the original page.