Judge In US Copyright Group Case Seems Skeptical Of Lumping All Those Lawsuits Into One
from the convince-me dept
Following the filing from the EFF, Public Citizen and the ACLU questioning US Copyright Group's (really law firm Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver) decision to lump together thousands upon thousands of copyright infringement lawsuits into a single lawsuit, it sounds like the judge in the case is quite skeptical of the strategy. She's demanding that US Copyright Group explain in writing why she shouldn't throw out all but one of the John Doe defendants for "misjoinder."A brief entry in the official court docket lays out the order. "MINUTE ORDER requiring Plaintiff to show cause in writing no later than June 21, 2010 why Doe Defendants 2 through 2000 should not be dismissed for misjoinder under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 20," wrote the judge in The Steam Experiment case. The same order was repeated in a separate case targeting 4,577 users alleged to have shared the film Far Cry.Considering that USCG has been making the argument that ISPs who don't hand over the names of the accused are guilty of inducing infringement, I can't wait to see the legal response. In the meantime, though, it's good that the judge appears to be aware that this strategy is highly questionable.
Filed Under: copyright, joinder, lawsuits, misjoinder
Companies: us copyright group
Reader Comments
Subscribe: RSS
View by: Time | Thread
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re:
Obviously it's some sort of crime family...
; P
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Re:
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re:
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re:
Considering they downloaded an Uwe Boll movie, they all have excruciating bad taste in movies.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Re:
But not really.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Re: Re:
But it's pretty darn close.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Re:
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re:
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
new names for democrcy
MO-ocracy
curlyocracy
stoogocracy
pinkynbrainocracy
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re:
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re:
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093051/
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Re:
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Re:
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
The One
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
For added reading
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/songs-of-innocence.ars
Here's where the pirates be human and falsely claimed by Davy Jones.
YAARGH!
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
The real reason
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Hurt Locker Hypocracy
It seems though that they have no problem suing people in DC where practically none of their down loaders live.
Justice......what a joke. USA has the best justice money can buy.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]