Hurt Locker director sues bittorent users

[boxerboy]

My copy is still on the shelf waiting to be watched, sounds like mixed reviews.

 

[Jambo]

Absolute crap film we should be suing him for our money back

Just upload it again.

 

[kingy666]

• guy dies in explosion
• new guys comes in
• new guy disarms a bunch of artillery shells in a star shape
• something about a sniper rifle and some British blokes
• i think a little boy gets stabbed?
• and then i think there's an ending.

NOOOOO, i was gonna watch this tonight. Not worth it now i know the story.

 

[gothic_hobbit]

The article doesn't even mention the director... It's the production team who are suing.

Same difference. The director is also one of the producers.

 

[Maccy]

Such mixed reviews, I haven't seen it and not sure I will now. Worth purchasing?

 

[TheVoice]

Found it very boring myself.

 

[Valentino]

Out of that whole article, the only thing that interested me was this quote

[ACS] was recently wound up but its founder, Andrew Crossley, faces a Solicitors Regulation Authority hearing over his conduct next month.

I hope he is stripped of court privileges tbh. Or whatever lawyers have to practice law.

 

[Efour]

I watched It after it won all its prizes and thought.... really?? Why???

Ok film but seriously nothing about it... The sniper scene just makes me want to vomit.. Its actually terrible.

 

[Edrof]

Such mixed reviews, I haven't seen it and not sure I will now. Worth purchasing?

Worth watching free - or even renting - but not purchasing.

 

[Showboat]

Maybe worth a download, certainly not worth spending money on it.

 

[shorttricky]

Same here, it was a good film.

I bet a few people are getting a bit worried. Serves them right for getting involved in film piracy.

If it wasn't for piracy most people would probably never even of heard of it before the oscars.

 

[apatia77]

The film itself was good but not outstanding.

 

[robgmun]

It was done as an up yours to Jim "king of the world " Cameron.

Nail on head, it's all a joke really

 

[atpbx]

The article doesn't even mention the director... It's the production team who are suing.

And the high settlement price is due to the sharing, not just the downloading for personal use.

Is that in response to me?

I wasnt talking about the suing, just why it got the Oscars.

 

[Tummy]

Good luck with your case.

 

[PermaBanned]

Is this bittorent users in general, or people who have pirated the movie? I'm sick of people seeing torenting as illegal, it's just an alternative download method that gets around the speed limit of HTML.

 

[Bennie-Mac]

Just as well i used utorrent

Average film tbh, not bad by any means but certainly not deserving of any awards.

 

[Jokester]

Yeah, good luck with that.

If all 25,000 people respond either with a letter saying "I didn't do. Prove it" or "Yeah, I did it. But $3k? Jog on. I'll send you a cheque for the current RRP of the DVD" then the production company are going to have problems. Surely it will cost them far more to pursue this than they could ever hope to recover unless they target a handful of the worst offenders.

Problem is in the US the piraters can be charged for each and every download that they were responsible for, so there was a case where a woman thought the same and essentially told the IP owners to jog on. They then took her to court, won, and she ended up with a bill for something like $60,000 to pay off because she had been seeding it on torrent to thousands of users.

The $3k settlement may be a wise option.

 

[loltim]

Just as well i used utorrent

meh, it's still a bit torrent client.

I thought hurt locker was ass fwiw!