Mar 30 2010 05:53 PM ET

Independent film coalition targets more than 20,000 downloaders in copyright suits

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More than 20,000 movie downloaders have been targeted with copyright infringement suits over the past few weeks, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The US Copyright Group, representing a group of independent film producers, has filed five lawsuits against tens of thousands of online torrent users, including one over the illegal downloading of the Uwe Boll film Far Cry. More litigation, affecting 30,000 more users, is expected. The US Copyright Group’s case is buttressed by new technology that helps to identify downloaders’ IP addresses and ensure that the downloaded content in question is, in fact, copyrighted material. Eight individuals have already settled.

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  • Quirky
    Tue 03/30/10 6:33 PM

    Personally I think Uwe Boll’s movies are the greater crime here. We should be starting a class action lawsuit against him.

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    • Eli
      Wed 03/31/10 12:21 PM

      Agreed!

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  • me here
    Tue 03/30/10 10:07 PM

    does this apply only to US downloaders… what about all those foreign countries… ?

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