'Hurt Locker' makers file new suit against downloaders
After filing a lawsuit against 24,583 individuals who allegedly downloaded the Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker," movie studio Voltage Pictures is at it again. This time, in a new lawsuit, they've added about 2,500 other alleged BitTorrent users to its list, according to TorrentFreak.
Voltage Pictures, which filed the suit in Florida last week, says that all of those people downloaded "The Hurt Locker" illegally; as a result, it has lost millions of dollars in revenue. One of the studio's goals in this lawsuit is to get a subpoena to reveal the alleged movie sharers' identities via their ISP addresses, according to TorrentFreak.
An interesting coincidence in this case, TorrentFreak points out, is that all of the defendants supposedly downloaded "The Hurt Locker" in 2010 and they all share the same Internet provider -- Charter Communications.