American Group for the Protection of Copyright filed a lawsuit against 20 thousand internet users, found guilty of downloading pirated movies using torrentovye network. Group created by independent film producers, it also supports the American Alliance of Independent Film and Television.

Defenders truly Napoleonic plans: will soon be filed for another 30 thousand new claims. Activists plan to establish a precedent that can seriously undermine the position of BitTorrent in the United States.

When collecting information, human rights activists used the technology of German company Guardaley IT, enabling real-time tracking download from torrent portal and to determine the IP-addresses of downloaders.

Major film companies have not yet joined the rally because they were important to start it is connected to service providers. While the group enlisted the support of only one provider, which gave her the names of 71 amateur muffs. However, a number of other operators in the courts challenged the initiative. American ISPs generally reluctant to support such initiatives, which, according to shark film market, and prevents an effective fight against piracy .

Via Electronista

Site TorrentFreak computed the number of movie downloads with BitTorrent, and on this basis amounted to rating the best films of last year. Since yesterday held a ceremony MTV Movie Oscar », TorrentFreak also presented his comic" Oscar ", and they became the film" District number 9 »(District 9): he was download 12 639 000 times. "Avatar" is not enough just a bit: it downloaded 11 326 000 times. However, here it is important to mention that high-quality DVD-version of "Avatar" has appeared only a month ago, while the "District number 9" is available since September last year. But "Avatar" bypassed "District number 9" on the number of torrent files: 4280 against 2948, respectively.

Recall that these "Oscars" "Avatar" received three: for best special effects, the operator's work and art director. As the total number of awards "Avatar" lost film "Lord of the storm", which received six prestigious statuettes.

Via TorrentFreak