Producers for 'The Hurt Locker' are prosecuting people who illegally downloaded copies of the movie via peer-to-peer internet sites.
According to Telegraph UK:
Anyone who did so will have to pay $1,500 (£1,000) to be released from their liability and up to $150,000 (£100,000) if the case goes to court.
The list of defendants in the case is expected to grow from the as-yet unnamed 5,000 so far being targeted.
The film was first leaked online months before its US release and is believed to have been downloaded millions of times.
This from Cnet News,
Scary sounding but its bark is worse than its bite -- at least it has been in the past. Cnet says:
But the filing of a lawsuit does not a successful legal campaign make. Not when you're talking about the volume of file sharers Voltage has set its sights on.
This is well tread ground after all. The four top record companies attempted to use litigation as a deterrent for five years and were confronted by bad publicity, big legal costs, and this little nugget: the suits didn't slow illegal file sharing.
And the labels are large corporations with lots of cash to fund antipiracy operations. Voltage is relatively small and isn't backed by the Motion Picture Association of America, the trade group representing the six largest film studios, including Disney, Sony Pictures, and Paramount Pictures. The MPAA employs staff to help prevent studio-backed films from leaking to the Web and track them down when they occur.
It appears the Copyright Group, which is private and has nothing to do with the government despite the official-sounding name, is offering smaller film companies a means to fight back against piracy.
Pix of scary looking docs are at CNet:
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