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IP-Addresses of the Canadian Hurt locker ‘Victims’

hurt lockerEarlier this month we reported that The Hurt Locker lawsuits hit Canada as well.

Three Canadian ISPs have been ordered by a court to hand over the personal details of their subscribers to Voltage Pictures.

However, unlike in the United States where tenst of thousands of downloaders were targeted, the Canadian case only covers 30 IP-addresses for now.

Or we should say 29, as the list that was cent to Cogeco includes 2 identical IP-addresses.

If none of the subscribers connected to the IPs appeals the Judge’s decision, their personal information will be handed over by their Internet providers.

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* 10 Bell IPs
* 10 Cogeco IPs
* 10 Videotron IPs

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  • Null101

    Funny that one of the addresses on the “Bell” list is owned by the parent company of the Montreal Canadiens.
    207.61.47.217

    CustName: L’Arena des Canadiens Inc
    Address: 1275 rue St-Antoine ouest
    Address: 7ieme etage
    City: Montreal
    StateProv: QC
    PostalCode: H3C-5L2
    Country: CA
    RegDate: 2003-06-11
    Updated: 2011-03-19

    • Anonymous

      So if the Canadiens get sued and they start to talk, they have a controversy? I love it!

  • Ehacke

    One of the IPs is for the Montreal Canadians stadium in Montreal. Nice.

    207.61.47.217

  • Ehacke

    One of the IPs is for the Montreal Canadians stadium in Montreal. Nice.

    207.61.47.217

  • Anonymous

    So how can they prove that these downloads were even completed? Say I just download the file’s header to obtain statistical information? I have then downloaded no copyrighted data, but I was indeed in the torrent’s swarm… Some retard just comes along, writes down my IP, now I can be sued?

    …and what kind of proof do they have that those IP’s were indeed in the swarm? Please don’t even say a screenshot… Add in the whole notion of open wifi/passphrase hacking & blam-o… Fucking reasonable doubt. How they are able to get a ruling on any of this shit is beyond me….

    • LOLZ-HURTLOCKER

      Try say that in court. Not only will your lawyer cost a ton of money, but you will probably want to settle before that bill gets out of hand and you need to remortgage the house.

      • Artois_uo

        On that you are right. The only winner on those case are lawyer.

      • Gofuckyoursel

        Its civil court idiot, just say you need a lawyer cause you cant afford one, then you fuck them over and you sue your ISP for handing out personal information without being able to defend yourself, im just saying to you specfifically because im drunk and you pissed me off with your stupidity of not thinking before you type.

    • I am the Law Cartman

      depends on if the Judge has been ordered to convict you, even with a reasonable doubt on your guilt, based on very minimal evidence of how much of a crime was committed(if it was even you in the first place).
      People need to make sure that all information that was sent to the Judge, to get details on you, are legal. It’s like a guy on the street saying you took his $20 and he makes a cop search you to get his $20 back, even though you never took his imaginary $20. But because you had $20 and the cop is being a ass-hole, you are convicted and robbed by a fraud artist(China has people like that, of a cop and shill, that prey on tourists).

  • Myztry

    An IP address is like the address off an apartment block, without even the apartment numbers. It in no way identifies the individual concerned. It would be lucky if it even identified which computer was involved.

    Sure they can track an interaction back to an IP address but to sue the owner of a connection without identifying them would be like suing the landlord of an apartment block on the basis they are responsible for the tenants.

  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

    That actually looks like it might work dude. Wow.
    real-privacy.no.tc

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  • Phil Landry

    Why the hell is there only IPs from Québec? Yeah right cuz’ we’re so fücking corrupted…

    • http://tinyurl.com/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA

      lol

    • Ishraqiyun

      Because Harper accepted to let them sue from overseas in exchange for them targeting Québec only ;)

    • Proud Pirate

      because of that “nation within a nation” BS they have some extra laws and are exempt from some others and because of the other laws and past precedence in place making downloading files legal in the rest of canada
      quebec is probably the only province with any legal loop whole they have to use to be able to prosecute

  • Hahahaha

    How do they verify that the files were the actual film? Did they download them? Did they then reseed?

    If a party acting on behalf of the studio seeded the film how can they bitch if people downloaded it? Is that any kind of entrapment?

    If they didn’t seed how can they tell that it was copyrighted data? Or is downloading a file with the same name as a film now illegal? I feel there’s an opportunity to really show up a studio by lots of people all seeding and d/ling a decoy file titled like a film that’s really popular and see if they’re stupid enough to bite and end up with a mouth full of ass.

  • Hahahaha

    How do they verify that the files were the actual film? Did they download them? Did they then reseed?

    If a party acting on behalf of the studio seeded the film how can they bitch if people downloaded it? Is that any kind of entrapment?

    If they didn’t seed how can they tell that it was copyrighted data? Or is downloading a file with the same name as a film now illegal? I feel there’s an opportunity to really show up a studio by lots of people all seeding and d/ling a decoy file titled like a film that’s really popular and see if they’re stupid enough to bite and end up with a mouth full of ass.

  • Anonymous

    tinyurl.com/2df4ccp

  • Anonimouse

    How are you supposed to remember what your IP address was months ago. I don’t even know what mine is now.

    Does the person who’s IP address appears twice get taken to court twice ?

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  • Omar

    Well, I feel for these poor souls who are being thrown under the bus, so-to-speak. This slimy-ass law firm is standing on very shaky ground and is obviously just testing the waters in Canada while the Conservatives have their majority, and Bill C-32/ C-11 is presumably right around the corner from being implemented.

    The problem with their foray into Canada is not only are we less controlled by the lobbyists, but we actually believe in appropriate penalties. Therefore, without the possibility of $150,000+ awards per infringement, as is the case in the US, the reward is not going to be worth the risk for these money-grubbing Yanks. That, and the fact that it has already been established in the Doe vs BMG case (2005), an IP address is NOT a person, and sharing a file from a ‘Shared’ folder, does not constitute willful infringement.

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  • http://twitter.com/al_d_25 booda dass

    LOL This IP 207.236.136.66 from Bell is from the Montreal airport
    http://ip2geolocation.com/?ip=207.236.136.66&lang=en

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  • Jaydon1980

    You can fid your dynamic ip adress by checking your sent email message header from that period of time they were tracking ips.

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