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: GamePolitics.comUS Copyright Group to Federal Judge: 'We Are Doing John Does a Favor'
By james_fudge
The US Copyright Group, a fancy name for the group of Virginia lawyers that like to sue file sharers in bulk, has told a federal judge that they "see no problem" with suing 5,000 Bittorrent users as John Does. Lawyers for the EFF and the ACLU have a different take on the matter entirely. The suits were "improperly joined," according to the EFF and ACLU. At least one judge hearing the case wants more information from all parties on the matter.
Yesterday, lawyer Tom Dunlap of the firm Dunlap, Grubb, & Weaver, filed a 29-page document in the Washington, DC District Court. The gist of that brief was that, according to Dunlap, suing 5,000 anonymous users at once is proper because of how Bittorrent works. Dunlap's argument tries to distinguish Bittorrent from all other P2P networks: Read More
Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 23, 2010 (boomark / email).
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