Puzzling privacy analysis in decision to unmask anonymous accused copyright infringers
internetcases » cases 2017-11-06
Summary:
Plaintiff porn company sued an unknown bittorrent user (identified as John Doe) alleging that defendant had downloaded and distributed more than 20 of plaintiff’s films. Plaintiff asked the court for leave to serve a subpoena on Optimum Online – the ISP associated with defendant’s IP address – prior to the Rule 26(f) conference. (As we […]