2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Scheme Falls Apart

Re:2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Sche... by RubyWestcoast on Saturday August 03, 2013 @05:27PM (#6153473)

Wait, let me get this straight. A company with no vested interest in the copyright, no association with the party who owns the copyright, was claiming copyright infringement and trying to subpoena identities? What the heck?

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Re:2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Sche... by ori_b on Saturday August 03, 2013 @06:22PM (#6153645)

They bought the right to sue from the actual copyright owners. Think of it as outsourcing the copyright enforcement.

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Re:2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Sche... by MichaelGG on Sunday August 04, 2013 @01:44AM (#6154784)

Didn't Righthaven get slapped down for that? At least in the US, you can't sell the "right to sue" for copyright.

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Re:2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Sche... by nness on Sunday August 04, 2013 @07:07PM (#6157466)

Ars did a post-mortem of sorts that explained just that, that Righthaven did not posses any actual interest in the copyrights themselves, and had no standing to sue.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/copyright-troll-r...

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Re:2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Sche... by reustle on Saturday August 03, 2013 @06:03PM (#6153596)

> no association with the party who owns the copyright

Did you read the article?

> The Swiss firm didn’t hide the fact that they were nothing to do with the making of the film and they also admitted not being involved with traditional movie distribution channels. Instead, they licensed “BitTorrent distribution” and “enforcement” rights from Los Angeles-based Hannibal Pictures.

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