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U.S. P2P Lawsuit Shows Signs of a ?Pirate Honeypot?
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Starting last year U.S. courts have been bombarded with lawsuits against tens of thousands of file-sharers. Among the copyright holders claiming damages are a few well-known names, but the vast majority of the cases concern more obscure content. As time passes by more and more copyright trolls join in, and in some cases copyright holders are now suing people for files that were deliberately mislabeled, lulling unsuspecting individuals in.
Since 2010 more than 175,000 people have been sued for online copyright related offenses in the U.S. All of these defendants are accused of sharing films on P2P networks without the consent of copyright holders.
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so a person actually uses p2p to say get his favorite tv show (using torrents like a vcr) or his favorite album (using torrents like a mp3 ripper) and get sued because copyright holder fraudlently mislabeled the file to snag false downloads.
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