User talk:Ddalton22

midterm
I plan to talk about copyright lawsuits recently brought against downloaders of new movies such as the expendables and the hurt locker. In these suits, movie studios have attempted to bring suit against 25,000 IP addresses in an attempt to increase revenue from the film. While most of the defendants have been through out as well as these actions criticized by federal judges, the film studios use scare tactics to get individuals to settle with them out of court, usually offering settlement deals of roughly 1500$, to alleged copyright violators in return for dropping them from the suit. These scare tactics have been largely criticized by US federal court judges and they have threatened to dismiss these suit on the grounds of them being to broad to sue 25,000 IP addresses. These suits also bring up other interesting legal issues, such as whether ISP should be legally required to turn of personal information of their customers who are allegedly engaged in copyright infringement. I plan to look into these issues, and look into the current state of copyright infringement litigation in general.

Final
Here is my assignment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrighted_content_on_file_sharing_networks#New_Shot-Gun_Style_Lawsuit_Approach_by_the_Film_Industry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.29.176 (talk) 19:23, 16 December 2011 (UTC)