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Two San Diego residents included in spate of lawsuits over file sharing

The company that owns the rights to Academy Award-winning movie Dallas Buyers Club is continuing to target online pirates who have downloaded and shared the movie via peer-to-peer filing websites. In recent months, Dallas Buyers Club LLC., has filed hundreds of lawsuit against individuals, the most recent being two Cox Communications users in San Diego.

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Matthew McConaughey plays a bag-of-bones, good ol' boy piece of sex-addled trailer trash who has the misfortune to bang the wrong (female) intravenous drug-user (HIV+) in the wrong way (sans condom) in the wrong place (darkest Texas) at the wrong time (the panicked, unmedicated '80s). Suddenly, he's cast out among those he hates, and overdosing on the only medicine out there (AZT), which nearly kills him. (The bastards at Big Pharma and the FDA, eager to cash in on the AIDS panic, are running human trials.) Eventually, he heads south of the border to visit a disgraced doctor who knows what's good for him. And what's good for Ron is good for his fellow sufferers, including Rayon, a junkie trans woman played with mesmerizing commitment by Jared Leto. So our hero starts peddling meds and making bank, and learns to love along the way. Naturally, the authorities object. With Jennifer Garner.

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According to two federal complaints filed on July 21, the two Cox customers downloaded and shared the biographical drama about electrician Ron Woodruff, who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1985 and later began smuggling medicine into the United States to help fellow AIDS patients. The movie was a huge success. Despite being made for only $5 million, it grossed an estimated $55 million dollars domestically and internationally. Actor Matthew McConaughey, who played Woodruff in the movie, received an Oscar for his performance as did Jared Leto who played a transgender AIDS patient.

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Attorneys for the copyright owners are requesting that a federal judge allow the cable and internet provider to release the identities of two of its customers identified only by their Internet Protocol Address. According to the complaint, the users shared the movie through a BitTorrent file-sharing website. BitTorrent allows users to transfer large files over the internet. More often than not, those files include movies, porn, music, books, and software.

"Many parties, and possibly defendant have been compensated for their participation in expanding the availability of pirated content to others through BitTorrent networks, including plaintiff’s movie, even if such compensation was limited to greater access to other content," reads the complaint filed by San Diego attorney James S. Davis. "The use of BitTorrent does more than cause harm through the simple theft of intellectual property. The BitTorrent distribution of pirated files is a model of business that profits from theft through sales and advertising and provides a system of rewards and compensation to the participants, each of whom contribute to and further the enterprise. Based on activity observed associated with defendant’s [internet protocol] address, defendant is a prolific proponent of the BitTorrent distribution system advancing the BitTorrent economy of piracy."

Dallas Buyers Club's owners have filed similar cases filed in Oregon, as reported by the Union Tribune in February of this year. One individual, a Salem, Oregon resident, was ordered to pay over $15,000 to the movie owners.

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The company that owns the rights to Academy Award-winning movie Dallas Buyers Club is continuing to target online pirates who have downloaded and shared the movie via peer-to-peer filing websites. In recent months, Dallas Buyers Club LLC., has filed hundreds of lawsuit against individuals, the most recent being two Cox Communications users in San Diego.

Movie

Dallas Buyers Club *

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Matthew McConaughey plays a bag-of-bones, good ol' boy piece of sex-addled trailer trash who has the misfortune to bang the wrong (female) intravenous drug-user (HIV+) in the wrong way (sans condom) in the wrong place (darkest Texas) at the wrong time (the panicked, unmedicated '80s). Suddenly, he's cast out among those he hates, and overdosing on the only medicine out there (AZT), which nearly kills him. (The bastards at Big Pharma and the FDA, eager to cash in on the AIDS panic, are running human trials.) Eventually, he heads south of the border to visit a disgraced doctor who knows what's good for him. And what's good for Ron is good for his fellow sufferers, including Rayon, a junkie trans woman played with mesmerizing commitment by Jared Leto. So our hero starts peddling meds and making bank, and learns to love along the way. Naturally, the authorities object. With Jennifer Garner.

Find showtimes

According to two federal complaints filed on July 21, the two Cox customers downloaded and shared the biographical drama about electrician Ron Woodruff, who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1985 and later began smuggling medicine into the United States to help fellow AIDS patients. The movie was a huge success. Despite being made for only $5 million, it grossed an estimated $55 million dollars domestically and internationally. Actor Matthew McConaughey, who played Woodruff in the movie, received an Oscar for his performance as did Jared Leto who played a transgender AIDS patient.

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Attorneys for the copyright owners are requesting that a federal judge allow the cable and internet provider to release the identities of two of its customers identified only by their Internet Protocol Address. According to the complaint, the users shared the movie through a BitTorrent file-sharing website. BitTorrent allows users to transfer large files over the internet. More often than not, those files include movies, porn, music, books, and software.

"Many parties, and possibly defendant have been compensated for their participation in expanding the availability of pirated content to others through BitTorrent networks, including plaintiff’s movie, even if such compensation was limited to greater access to other content," reads the complaint filed by San Diego attorney James S. Davis. "The use of BitTorrent does more than cause harm through the simple theft of intellectual property. The BitTorrent distribution of pirated files is a model of business that profits from theft through sales and advertising and provides a system of rewards and compensation to the participants, each of whom contribute to and further the enterprise. Based on activity observed associated with defendant’s [internet protocol] address, defendant is a prolific proponent of the BitTorrent distribution system advancing the BitTorrent economy of piracy."

Dallas Buyers Club's owners have filed similar cases filed in Oregon, as reported by the Union Tribune in February of this year. One individual, a Salem, Oregon resident, was ordered to pay over $15,000 to the movie owners.

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