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There are at least three major BitTorrent legal campaigns occurring globally at the moment. There's the ACS:Law situation in the UK, and in the United States, there's the bevy of lawsuits from the US Copyright Group. A lesser known cluster stems from Lucas Entertainment, a gay porn producer which is ramping up efforts against alleged unauthorized distributors originating from Gay-Torrents.net.
Attention and outside involvement focused on ACS:Law and USCG has been impressive. It has led to possibly disciplinary action against ACS:Law, while ISP involvement with the USCG has ground the process to a crawl.
With the Lucas Entertainment lawsuits, it's been rather quiet. But this may be a result of several factors; the lawsuits (there are two, one for the movie "Missing", the other for "Kings of New York") were only recently filed in July and August, and the total number of defendants is only ~250. There could be a reluctance to report on defendants accused of distributing gay porn, but the issues surrounding this case are no different than the others. Sure, there are probably guilty parties, however it's well known that untold numbers of innocents get caught up in the John Doe process as well.
In any event, we finally have some opposition to report in the Lucas cases - but it doesn't appear to be very helpful. One of the John Does has managed to file a motion to quash in the "Missing" case. Unfortunately this individual did not send his motion under seal - and it appears without legal advisement. His name and address are clearly labeled on the envelope and letter he sent.
"I am writing this letter to formally oppose the order allowing Charter Communications to disclose any information of mine. This is in regard to Case Number 10-cv-1407-Fl; Lucas Entertainment vs. Does 1-65. I do not know what this is about and the documents forwarded by the plaintiff's counsel were such poor quality that they were nearly impossible to read."
The defendant that wished to keep his information private then proceeded to print and sign his name for the entire world to see. Sigh...at least he didn't divulge his IP address and totally wrap the case in a bow for Lucas Entertainment.
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Date: 2010-08-26 |