Federal Court Cases

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New lawsuits from Metro Media Entertainment, LLC and Digital Sin, Inc. join Florida’s copyright troll cases

This week saw the filing of two new copyright troll cases in the Nortern District of Florida Metro Media Entertainment, LLC v. Does 1-18, No. 3:12-cv-324-MCR-CJK Digital Sin Inc. v. Does 1-16, No. 1:12-cv-136-SPM-GRJ Both lawsuits were filed on June 26, 2012, by and through Virginia attorney Mike Meier of the Copyright Law Group, LLC,…

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Is having an open wi-fi “negligence”?

As I have been posting in other entries, thousands of people have been joined into lawsuits as “John Does” and have been receiving letters from Comcast or other Interent Service Providers accusing them of illegal downloading.  However, one plaintiff film company, Liberty Media, has gone a step beyond the standard copyright infringement claim by throwing…

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Copyright Troll Malibu Media files 6 new lawsuits in Middle District of Florida

Malibu Media, LLC, filed six new copyright infringment lawsuits in the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, on Tuesday, May 15, 2012.  The complaints allege that each “John Doe” defendant installed a BitTorrent Client, such as uTorrent or Vuze, onto his or her computer, and went to a torrent website, such as TorrentZap,…

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