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Dallas Buyers Club wants alleged pirates' income details
The film company chasing almost 5000 Australians for allegedly pirating Dallas Buyers Club wants a judge to let it ask its targets for details of their annual income, as well as their history of torrenting files, when deciding the size of the financial penalty it will pursue.
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Requiring information from ISP's on who downloaded is justified. Asking a judge for permission to interrogate and extort the pirates is going a little too far I think. No one-size-fits-all is a poor excuse to request these details. I'm pretty sure these are the same group that was threatening lawsuits if those caught didn't pay a smaller fine upfront to get rid of the issue.
In Canada there is now a law that allows content owners to use a downloader's internet service provider to send them a warning email. Of course this law started to be abused when instead of a warning, the content owners sent settlement emails asking for thousands in damages. I swear, this type of shit is their new business plan.
That's what I was talking about. Pay up $1,000 to settle now, or we'll take you to court, you will lose and have to pay $20,000. Send out 10,000 emails like that with a 10% hit rate and there's $1,000,000.
The DBC had some ruling in the courts here that gave them the ability to find out the information of the downloaders from the ISPs. Beforehand they could request letters to be sent to the infringer by the ISP's but they never had access to the details before. Now that DBC have those details, they can't legally ask for financial details which is why they are getting the ability to do so. The whole thing sounds like one big scam to grab as much money as possible.
I was under the impression that a court not long ago decided that the companies can only receive the amount that it would have lost had the offenders purchased the media legitimately. In Australia this is.
I can't remember where I read this but it was around the same time all this blew up.