Low-Budget Movie Companies Using BitTorrent Lawsuits To Make Big Money

On March 7, Camelot Distribution Group, an obscure film company in Los Angeles, unveiled its latest and potentially most profitable release: a federal lawsuit against BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the company’s 2010 B-movie revenge flick Nude Nuns With Big Guns between January and March of this year. The single lawsuit targets 5,865 downloaders, making it theoretically worth as much as $879,750,000 — more money than the U.S. box-office gross for Avatar.

In contrast to the the RIAA’s much-criticized and now-abandoned war against music pirates — which targeted 20,000 downloaders in six years — the movie lawsuits appear to have been designed from the start as for-profit endeavor, not a as a deterrent to piracy.

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Isn't this EXACTLY the same as entrapment? Furthermore, how can you possibly prove who is downloading something, or if your neighbor is sharing your WI-FI? The legal implications of this are mind boggling. They will have a forensics investigator examine your computer hard drive, but what if you swap the drive, or do a full DOD wipe? This abuse of the system is just as corrupt as the supposed "pirates" are.

1)How is it entrapment?
2)It is a crime to pirate movies. The studio has the right to seek recourse. I see no 'abuse' of any system here.

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Only 5865 people watched the film?
No wonder they need to sue to make profit

"Money" is what drives the world, just think and ask yourself this, if money never existed would people have a problem still if their work was recreated? If there was no way whatsoever for anyone at all to profit, would it really matter if someone took credit for the work or even made it better? if everyone did everything because they enjoyed it and could not profit off the work, would they really care? true artist would say yes I would still care because they put in the hard work and time, but few would care because the drive behind piracy is profit, they don't want others downloading things for free because then they make no profit, but what if profit never existed?

Originally posted by ISis12RA12ELohim
"Money" is what drives the world, just think and ask yourself this, if money never existed would people have a problem still if their work was recreated? If there was no way whatsoever for anyone at all to profit, would it really matter if someone took credit for the work or even made it better? if everyone did everything because they enjoyed it and could not profit off the work, would they really care? true artist would say yes I would still care because they put in the hard work and time, but few would care because the drive behind piracy is profit, they don't want others downloading things for free because then they make no profit, but what if profit never existed?

Yup thats all this world is about, money over matter.

file-----serve
file------sonic
o---ron

never use torrents, they watch you.

The copyright law I think should be canceled and the people who made it thrown in jail or killed as for me this is the biggest discrimination law that ever exist. I mean who else get paid when people are using something that they made over and over again? I am electrician and if I do a house - wire and connect electrically do I get paid every time people switch the lights on or off? No! I only get paid for the work once and musician, actors, companies representing them and so on should be the same way - get paid once. Once I purchase the movie or a Cd I should be able to share it as much as I want - same as if I purchase a house I can use the electrical system in it as much as I want and everyone in my house can do it too. So, this copyright law is a big BS!!! I do not appreciate these damn actors and musicians that are pushing themselves to just do something only to be able to make money. This is how they create absolute garbage. I want to be protected too by a law every time if I accidently see or hear some of their garbage productions and get disgusted, to be paid from these who created it. It should work the other way around too, don’t you guys think so. I'm flipping the channels, tuning the radio from station to station to find 99% of the time total garbage. So I want to be paid for getting me disgusted for the accidental listening or seeing of it. If I do not get paid, than I do not have to obey the copyright law as I think a law should protect both sides not only one! If protects only one side than it is discrimination and anti human law and it should be removed!!!
I hope I was able to make my point as I’m always very angry when a law is protecting only few ones that can $h!t in your mouth and you want or not have to consume it…

There is an update to this story here the company filing the law suit doesnt even own the rights to the movie in the first place.

A film company suing 5,865 BitTorrent downloaders over the flick Nude Nuns with Big Guns doesn’t own the rights to the movie, according to court documents and interviews.

Don't know what to say about that apart from epic fail

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I guess you normally pay around $150,000 for a movie?

This is undoubtedly abuse. At most for a B movie they should be charged about $15 at most for the movie, and maybe a $20 slap on the wrist for the illegal download.

You wonder who posted the torrent in the first place.

Someone working for the low budget movie company after they find there movie was a flop comes up with a brilliant idea post the movie on a bit torrent site and wait for people to down load it then sue.

It would be a great scam to play on bitorrent people and good income.

The porn industry has had people making cheap porn movies then selling only a few copies and waiting for porn shops to copy there works so that the original Filmer could sue the shop that copied the film or was selling illegal copies

I knew a long haul trucker that would go to porn shops looking for illegal copies of porn movies and got a cut of the money from the lawsuit every time he found one.

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How can they get more than the 10$ to see the movie or the $20 dollars for the DVD...

that is what their movie is worth...nothing more and nothing less...

O yea B movie....that means straight to DVD.....so how could they ask for more than $20 from a person?

Our legal system is f*cked up beyond belief ...

I think it's funny how the downloaders are being charged for $150,000 each for 'damages', when the movie is worth like $20 each to buy.

The really funny thing is if one of those downloaders had, instead of downloading the movie, had destroyed the plaintiff's car with a baseball bat, would 'only' have to pay the price of the car repairs if sued in civil court. The crime of suing a pirater for thousands of times the value of the stolen product is identical to if in my hypothetical car vandalism, the plaintiff were to sue for $30 million to fix the car.