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Australians (court ruling) - DON'T HAND THEM A CENT!

posted 9 years ago by mibseti
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If you're not aware, the crew behind Dallas Buyers Club just won a court ruling stating that people who illegally downloaded the film - their IP and personal details are now being handed over to the film crew

There were about 5000 people

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-07/dallas-buyers-club-isps-must-hand-over-customer-details/6375358

If you're one of the people who will be getting a letter soon - THROW IT AWAY AND IGNORE IT.

Lawyers will usually send 3-4 letters of warning before taking it to court and each letter will cost them a few hundred in fees. So if they are send 3 letters at $150 a pop, that's just about $2mil in legal fee and then if they take you to court they'll be paying a lawyer $300hr to appear in court - when you're court hearing comes up, just call in sick on the day so they'll have to reschedule

If everyone does this, they be sent broke

And NO, I haven't watched the film or d/l it.

[–] truetexian 9 years ago

It's sort of pathetically apropos that the producers of this inauthentic, travesty to truth movie have taken a stand for "justice". Their actions have proven what I had known all along, that their efforts were purely profit driven.
I'm not siding with piracy so much as I'm hoping that any and all connected with DBC lose their shirts in whatever ensues.

[–] argyro 8 years ago

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/dallas-buyers-club-abandons-fight-against-aussie-pirates-20160210-gmr37y.html

It's a happy day for Aussie pirates: The Hollywood studio behind the film Dallas Buyers Club has abandoned its fight to extract huge sums of cash from alleged copyright infringers.

Dallas Buyers Club LLC had until midday Thursday to lodge a second appeal against an August Federal Court decision which effectively prevented it from engaging in so-called "speculative invoicing" in Australia.

Michael Bradley of Marque Lawyers, who represented the studio in the case, confirmed to Fairfax Media the studio had not appealed the decision by the deadline.