24 Thousand BitTorrent Users Sued Producer 'The Hurt Locker'

The Hurt Locker, a successful film steal numerous awards, has attracted many viewers to watch, including BitTorrent users. But the result, the user software to share files on the internet is demanded by the film producer, Voltage Pictures.

No kidding, there are 24 thousand more users of BitTorrent digugatnya. It is recorded as a record for being the case the largest file-sharing lawsuit ever. Voltage Picture trying to reap back the money that was taken by illegal downloaders movie about this bomb squad.

Quoted Tekertin.com from PCMag, Wednesday (25/05/2011), in which the presentation of case files, BitTorrent initially complain of 5000 Internet Protocol (IP). However, TorrentFreak reported, about 20 thousand users now included also in the lawsuit, bringing the total to about 24,583 defendant is now a user.

Official documents obtained by TorrentFreak detailing, the IP addresses of 10,532 subscribers Comcast, Verizon users 5239, 2699 and 1750 IP in the Charter of Time Warner coalesce into a large number of defendants.

After filing this lawsuit file, Voltage Pictures lawyers to ask the right to access personal information associated with each IP address. In response, Time Warner balked, saying that it takes a lot of time and others will pursue legal action.

Unfortunately, other customers were not so lucky. TorrentFreak reported examples, there is no any agreement with Comcast regarding the personal data of customers. "While the Charter and Verizon pledged to find 150 and 100 IP addresses in one month for all BitTorrent lawsuit is in progress," according to TorrentFreak.

Previously, BitTorrent has also been faced with a lawsuit about file-sharing on a large scale. A total of 23 thousand users of BitTorrent sued because they had downloaded the movie 'The Expendables'.