After more than an entire year of filing no new lawsuits within Florida, Malibu Media, LLC, the most prolific filer of copyright infringement lawsuits, filed a handful of new lawsuits in the Middle District of Florida today, all in the Tampa Division. The new Malibu Media lawsuits are:
(1) Malibu Media, LLC v. John Doe, subscriber assigned IP address 108.33.210.154, Case No. 8:15-cv-02287, which so far has been assigned to Judge Virginia Covington and Magistrate Mark A. Pizzo;
(2) Malibu Media, LLC v. John Doe, subscriber assigned IP address 104.136.217.249, Case No. 8:15-cv-02296, which so far has been assigned to JudgeVirginia Covington and Magistrate Elizabeth A. Jenkins;
(3) Malibu Media, LLC v. John Doe, subscriber assigned IP address 70.126.221.248, Case No. 8:15-cv-02304, which so far has been assigned to Judge Charlene Honeywell and Magistrate Thomas B. McCoun III;
(4) Malibu Media, LLC v. John Doe, subscriber assigned IP address 71.243.226.137, Case No. 8:15-cv-02307, which so far has been assigned to Judge Steven D. Merryday and Magistrate Julie S. Sneed;
(5) Malibu Media, LLC v. John Doe, subscriber assigned IP address 72.185.95.48, Case No. 8:15-cv-02312, which so far has been assigned to Judge Steven D. Merryday and Magistrate Anthony E. Porcelli;
(6) Malibu Media, LLC v. John Doe, subscriber assigned IP address 70.126.192.213, Case No. 8:15-cv-02393, which so far has been assigned to Judge Charlene Honeywell and Magistrate Anthony E. Porcelli;
As of yesterday, Malibu Media had not filed a lawsuit within the State of Florida since September 18, 2014, with the last case being Malibu Media v. Doe, 8:14-cv-2344, which was the 311st case in the Sunshine State. Nationwide, however, the litigant’s numbers are much bigger. As of yesterday Malibu Media had filed 4,823 lawsuits among the United States District Courts.
All of the lawsuits are for alleged copyright infringement by BitTorrent downloading of Malibu Media’s “X-Art” videos. Each case is for an alleged “site rip,” meaning the alleged downloading of multiple videos (as in several videos “ripped” from the entire X-Art website).
Cynthia Conlin, P.A. has been defending “John Does” in BitTorrent lawsuits in the District Courts in Florida since 2012. If you are served with a subpoena for one of these or any other BitTorrent lawsuit in Florida, call our office at 407-965-5519 or contact us for a free consultation.
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