Hurt Locker Producers To Sue Thousands of Piraters

It's their own fault for being idiots and not actually screening it in cinemas. People who download on bittorrent will almost never pay - they are not your customers. Ignore them.<p>Your customers will pay, but only if they can. It only screened in a few cities, so it's their own fault for making it impossible for people to pay them.<p>The movie business is doing really well right now. bittorrent has not had the slightest effect. If your are not making money on a movie it's your own fault - not bittorrent.

<i>You cannot make a professional movie in your garage basement using a Mac.</i><p>I wonder if a movie shot in 7 days that has made $192 million and had a wide international release counts as "professional": <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal_Activity_(film)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal_Activity_(film)</a>

I don't understand how the person who only happens to be paying the bill to the ISP can be held responsible for anyone using that IP address. If the neighbour's kids come over and hold a LAN gaming party and download a bunch of movies, who broke the law? The guy who let them use his Internet connection?

Clearly the WORST news mentioned in this article is that Uwe Boll is still making movies. God help us.<p><a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/features/Uwe-Boll-Money-For-Nothing-209.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cinemablend.com/features/Uwe-Boll-Money-For-Nothi...</a>

Because it has worked so well for the music industry.

I'm confused. They're suing the people who downloaded it when it was leaked five months prior to its official release, or everybody? Tens of thousands is a lot of people to sue.<p>I hope I wont have to regret running a Tor relay for the past ~year and bridging for China.

The movie industry should spend less time on frivolous lawsuits and instead focus on creating a product that people will buy. Piracy is just a convenient scapegoat: it's easier to blame pirates than to admit you did something wrong.

Assuming this legal action succeeds, what's to stop it becoming business as usual?<p>If it does become business as usual, it's highly unlikely that the makers of low-volume films - who seem to be the ones starting it all off - will be the major beneficiaries...

The biggest thing I took from this article was in reading the comments: the site auto-refreshes!!! People are typing in a comment and BAM the site reloads and they lose their comment. Talk about a shitty design decision....

I have a hard time seeing this being followed through with. Are they going to personally sue 10k people? I would guess that they just want a few hundred people to settle for a couple thousand dollars and call it a day.