Despite winning an Oscar for its incredible portrayal of working under pressure in the Iraq war zone, The Hurt Locker wasn’t a huge hit at the box office. The studio blames piracy for this, and is seeking to claim some of its alleged losses back from those it believes were involved.
The Hurt Locker Hurt
Voltage Pictures, the studio behind The Hurt Locker, which won the Oscar for ‘Best Picture’ at the 2010 Academy Awards, has teamed up with the over-importantly titled U.S. Copyright Group, which is actually the law firm Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver to chase after alleged pirates of its film.
Between them they claim to have the IP addresses of 24,583 people who illegally downloaded the movie from the Internet. This is 20,000 more than the 5,000 already threatened with legal action for the same offense a year ago, many of whom have since denied any wrongdoing.
The total number of defendants represents a new record for the number of users indicted in a BitTorrent lawsuit, beating the number involved in the alleged piracy of The Expendables by more than 1,000.
Legal documents seen by TorrentFreak claim that those being targeted are 10,532 Comcast subscribers, 5,239 Verizon users, 2,699 Charter users, and 1,750 Time Warner users.
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