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Hurt Locker fighting against Piracy - Will sue 'thousands'
Ricardo Trejo
If you’re the kind who likes to watch the latest theatrical flicks via torrents, then you may want to pay attention to this. Well, this really only applies to those who downloaded “The Hurt Locker” (the movie that won that big movie award thing).
Reports are coming in that the producers of the film are going to contact somewhere around tens of thousands of those who downloaded the movie illegally. It’s actually going so speedily through the channels that the lawsuit against the pirates may begin as soon as tomorrow, so you if you’re one in question then you should probably expect to be contacted by your ISP.
We’ve seen this sorta this happen before and not many people are willing to fight it; most just settle out of court, which goes to show that these scare tactics are working. I guess it’s a lot easier to do it that way than to rewrite laws and actually get some sort of reform when it comes to distinguishing what is within the rights of an ISP customer, sharing and stealing, as well as being able to properly pin the blame on the right person. Yeah, it’s quite a task but it has to be done.
Interesting to note, however, is that the movie was available on torrent sites a full 5 months before the film ever reached U.S. theaters. Perhaps without the people who downloaded the film it might’ve never won its lucrative award - hey, y’never know!
