The lawsuits were filed by an enterprising D.C.-based venture, the US Copyright Group, on behalf of an ad hoc coalition of independent film producers. A handful of cases have already settled, and those that haven't are creating some havoc for major ISPs. federal court for copyright infringement.
New litigation campaign quietly targets tens of thousands of movie downloadersĮXCLUSIVE: In what may be a sign of things to come, more than 20,000 individual movie torrent downloaders have been sued in the past few weeks in Washington D.C.