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Hurt Locker P2P Lawyers Eye New Targets
Plans to have all jurisdictions covered by March
As we recently noted, a new company by the name of the US Copyright group (aka the law firm of Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver) is promising movie studios a new revenue stream. Using IP addresses collected by entertainment industry intelligence-gathering groups -- the company sends automated threat letters to subscribers in the hopes users will settle without a fight. Last year we noted that the producers of The Hurt Locker had signed up with the group, and quickly sued about 5,000 "John Doe" P2P users. Now the law firm is ramping up their plans to sue individuals in a number of additional states for sharing a number of different films:
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DGW, which also operates under the name U.S. Copyright Group, has recruited lawyers from as many as 23 U.S. states to file lawsuits against thousands of suspected film pirates in local courts, according to Thomas Dunlap, the firm's co-founder and one of the participating attorneys. DGW represents about a dozen movie makers, including the producers of Oscar winning film, "The Hurt Locker."
Unfortunately, the courts haven't seen things DGW's way, and ISPs like Time Warner Cable are fighting efforts to hand over the names behind IP addresses en masse largely because they don't want the added administrative costs.
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Exodus
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More like Butt Hurt Locker.

Saw the movie on Netflix. Wasn't even that good.

JohnInSJ
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Re: More like Butt Hurt Locker.

You know this is what I was thinking too Once it finally drifted to the top of our Netflix queue we were all excited to see what this amazing film that everyone desires to see so badly that they're willing to download it illegally from the web. After viewing it, I just wanted those two hours of my life back.
tman852
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Agreed. Wasn't even worth downloading.

Harddrive
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Re: More like Butt Hurt Locker.

+1.
i wouldn't waste my capped internet on that piece of crap movie.
Kearnstd
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UP should have won best picture, it was honestly a superior film. of course it was animated so it automatically lost.
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What is the big deal about this movie?

it won Oscars and their lawyers are in a frenzy to sue people.

Most Pirated 2010: »screencrave.com/2010-12- ··· ber-one/
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1. Avatar 16,580,00o $2,779,551,867

2. Kick-Ass 11,400,000 $96,130,432

3. Inception 9,720,000 $825,408,570

4. Shutter Island 9,490,000 $294,803,014

5. Iron Man 2 8,810,000 $621,751,988

6. Clash of the Titans 8,040,000 $493,214,993

7. Green Zone 7,730,000 $94,875,650

8. Sherlock Holmes 7,160,000 $523,029,864

9. The Hurt Locker 6,850,000 $48,612,915

10. Salt 6,700,000 $175,190,850
Man that movie was so good it didn't even get pirated half as much as Avatar. Yet I do not see James Cameron going on a sue em frenzy. Though my guess is they will claim if nobody pirated the movie it would have made 2.8 billion as well.

fifty nine
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Re: What is the big deal about this movie?

Pirating avatar makes no sense. Half the reason to see the movie was the 3D effects which you won't get on an illegally downloaded copy.

Doctor Four
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Re: What is the big deal about this movie?

said by fifty nine:

Pirating avatar makes no sense. Half the reason to see the movie was the 3D effects which you won't get on an illegally downloaded copy.

The same logic can be applied to Tron: Legacy. It really doesn't make sense to pirate that movie, either. It is so much better to see it in a theater, especially one with an IMAX screen.

Augustus III
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said by fifty nine:

Pirating avatar makes no sense. Half the reason to see the movie was the 3D effects which you won't get on an illegally downloaded copy.

Lol what? 1080p matroska file. educate yourself

nyc guy
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Re: What is the big deal about this movie?

Ha, agreed.

DrStrange
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If James Cameron acted like US Copyright Group, he'd wake up one day to find he had too much in common with the antagonists [those are the 'bad guys'] in Avatar.

JackKane
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Re: What is the big deal about this movie?

Mr. Cameron has quite a bit in common with Ms. Bigelow, ya know...

DrStrange
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Re: What is the big deal about this movie?

Small Universe, isn't it?

LilYoda
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Mr Deuce Bigalow??

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At least Kick-Ass was worth getting. And managed to be superior to Iron Man 2, even in this dubious respect even though I did buy it on BluRay.

Shazbot
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I'll show 'em

No real interest in seeing that movie, but I'm going to record and extract a copy of it via my HD-PVR (it's on the upcoming Showtime free weekend) just for spite.

megarock
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Simple solution - any company, movie house or content distributor that associates with this group loses my business in the movie houses, in the movie stores and even online with places like Netflix. You associate with lawyers you can kiss my income goodbye. Just like the RIAA.