Millionaire Willing to Fight the MPAA

Written by Ernesto on July 26, 2006 

Shawn Hogan, CEO of Digital Point Solutions is sued by the MPAA for downloading a movie over BitTorrent. The MPAA wants to settle the case for $2,500, but Hogan rather spends $100,000 on legal fees, than giving in to the MPAA’s scare tactics.
Hogan says:
“$100,000 in legal fees is a small price to pay to challenge [...]

Shawn Hogan, CEO of Digital Point Solutions is sued by the MPAA for downloading a movie over BitTorrent. The MPAA wants to settle the case for $2,500, but Hogan rather spends $100,000 on legal fees, than giving in to the MPAA’s scare tactics.

Hogan says:

“$100,000 in legal fees is a small price to pay to challenge the MPAA’s tactics.They’re completely abusing the system, I would spend well into the millions on this.”

The 30-year-old software developer is sued for downloading a copy of “meet the fockers”. Hogan denies that he ever used BitTorrent to download this movie, and on top of this, he already owns a legal copy of the DVD.

MPAA’s head of antipiracy John G. Malcolm responded:

“We look forward to addressing his issues in a court of law.”

This is a very interesting case because there’s finally someone who has the money to stand up to the MPAA. The result of this case will have a great impact on the MPAA’s “war on piracy” and their current suing habit.

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8 Responses

1 Jul 26, 2006 at 10:15 by Max

finally

2 Jul 26, 2006 at 12:54 by np

kudos to the guy

3 Jul 27, 2006 at 06:35 by Yatti420

If my wishes come true will read… Millionaire Wins Fight Against MPAA..

4 Jul 27, 2006 at 08:38 by Goddert

And if the MPAA is the one who retires when they it doesn’t work out? They use their tactic only if there is a victim to intimidate.
Though maybe he is willing this guy can’t force them to continue the process.

And then in the end there is still no landmark decision and the game continues …

5 Jul 27, 2006 at 11:46 by melle marno

thats the way. with that spirit the MPAA will be history!

6 Jul 27, 2006 at 16:58 by td

go hogan!! and go millionare (insert name here :P )

7 Nov 04, 2006 at 22:37 by Jonathan

Spending $100 000 on legal aid against an MPAA attack on an innocent man beats spending $100 000 on ineffective advertising for a company :p

http://www.digitalpoint.com/ – looks good :)

8 Jun 12, 2008 at 15:21 by Comcast Hater

Does anyone know what happened with this case? I can’t seem to find anymore info on it besides this.

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