nsane.forums Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 In March the U.S. Copyright Group imported the mass litigation “pay up or else†scheme to the United States. The initial targets were relatively unknown indie films, but this changed when the makers of the Oscar-winning Hurt Locker joined the lucrative scheme. Before the actions of the USCG were closely followed by the mainstream media, the lawyers involved had set up an informative website for potential clients where they explained how they could turn piracy into profit. In several videos the group’s frontman Thomas Dunlap explained how easy it is to squeeze money out of BitTorrent users.One fact that they revealed was that the copyright holders have to give up 70% of the revenue from settlements to the USCG, but their videos contained more insights into the dealings of the group. For unknown reasons the videos were all taken out of public sight, but they missed one. As mentioned briefly in an earlier report, Thomas Dunlap claims that they are already following 300 films, and that was before the news about Hurt locker became public. If each of these films actually results in a lawsuit to reveal the identities of alleged downloaders the number of targeted BitTorrent users will explode. With ‘just’ 500 tracked file-sharers per film there are already 150,000 potential targets at risk of receiving a settlement letter. It’s unlikely that the individuals will be taken to court of course, but if they are revealed they will receive a ’speculative invoice’ in the form of a $1,500 to $2,500 settlement offer. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to view this scheme as an abuse of the legal system. Although the group has managed to get a court verdict in their favor for some titles, Judge Collyer of the District of Columbia has asked the USCG to detail why the lawsuits she reviews target hundreds or thousands of defendants and not just one. It’s worth nothing though, that even without going through the courts this settlement scheme can still be executed successfully. The USCG can always go the way of shady outfits such as Nexicon and send the settlement offers directly to the ISPs, asking them to forward them to their users. Several ISPs have already cooperated with this more direct scheme which successfully bypasses the courts. With millions of dollars at stake we have no doubt that the USCG will do all it can to rake in as much money as possible, the courts are just a formality to make the scheme look more legitimate and to encourage a higher rate of settlement.Article from: TorrentFreak. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 this is very easy to fix if done now. some of you users on this site know someone that knows someone that is good to !@#$ these guys in the video, the company doing it and the lawyers computers real good. put stuff that get their wives to divorce and put questionable porn on their cmputers. post their informatin to wher ethey surf on the web. do all sorts of s!!@#$ to them. there must still be someone that can !@#$ their bank accounts or is that all movie special effects now days. if they dont get the hint then do a clinton on them. steal their cats and dogs and pass on threats while jogging pass them.until we get rid of the democrats and rinos here in the usa it will be sometime before the laws are fixed back to fair use. in order for a chance of that this leaderless b!@#$ needs to be remember before we are the ussa.oh i seen india flims online. imk guessing most of the p2p ones that go for them are india blood. very sad. not like they can get it on a dvd from india. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Win7nerd Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 i dont really care, ive been downloading torrents for almost 10 years now (round about) and ive never gotten a letter or anything yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevles Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 i dont really care, ive been downloading torrents for almost 10 years now (round about) and ive never gotten a letter or anything yetWell I've recently changed ISPs (mainly because they are a better one than what I was on before) but I received a total of three different emails regarding copyright infringements. I found that the best way around this is to claim you own a physical copy of the game, dvd or whatever it may be and for them to prove you wrong.Chances are they will not come after you because you are merely one of how ever many hundreds or thousands that are in the same situation and are replying to these emails with "Oh, I'm sorry I won't do it again blah blah blah"In which case they have already confessed and are liable to receive fines.Anyway, I don't use torrents anymore they are far too slow and take up all my upload speed and only about 50% of my max download speed.Warez-BB.org is all I have to say.It has practically everything you could ever want and its all readily available without having to share your bandwidth uploading to other peoples.Only thing is you'll need either a rapidsh!t, megaupload (my personal favourite), hotfile or some other premium filesharing company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 They're really out of it if they think they can track torrent users with IP alone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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