Comments on: Thousands More BitTorrent Users To Be Sued In The U.S. http://torrentfreak.com/thousands-more-bittorrent-users-to-be-sued-in-the-u-s-100718/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:19:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Now Target Private Trackers | Systema /thousands-more-bittorrent-users-to-be-sued-in-the-u-s-100718/#comment-691712 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:00:43 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=25528#comment-691712 [...] of the pioneering work for this business model, it is the US Copyright Group and its pursuit of Hurt Locker file-sharers that has grabbed most of the [...]

]]> By: Andreas /thousands-more-bittorrent-users-to-be-sued-in-the-u-s-100718/#comment-691008 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:19:30 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=25528#comment-691008 @1 “I never thought Hollywood would dictate the laws in the U.S.” agreed…

]]> By: Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Now Target Private Trackers @ blog.idtorrent.org /thousands-more-bittorrent-users-to-be-sued-in-the-u-s-100718/#comment-690871 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:01:47 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=25528#comment-690871 [...] of the pioneering work for this business model, it is the US Copyright Group and its pursuit of Hurt Locker file-sharers that has grabbed most of the [...]

]]> By: Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Now Target Private Trackers | BJD Productions blog /thousands-more-bittorrent-users-to-be-sued-in-the-u-s-100718/#comment-690575 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:44:46 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=25528#comment-690575 [...] of the pioneering work for this business model, it is the US Copyright Group and its pursuit of Hurt Locker file-sharers that has grabbed most of the [...]

]]> By: P2PTalk » Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Now Target Private Trackers /thousands-more-bittorrent-users-to-be-sued-in-the-u-s-100718/#comment-690215 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:03:22 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=25528#comment-690215 [...] of the pioneering work for this business model, it is the US Copyright Group and its pursuit of Hurt Locker file-sharers that has grabbed most of the [...]

]]> By: eli /thousands-more-bittorrent-users-to-be-sued-in-the-u-s-100718/#comment-686340 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:41:35 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=25528#comment-686340 i say launch an attack on there site.

“RELEASE THE CRACKEN”

]]> By: Kaptain Krunch /thousands-more-bittorrent-users-to-be-sued-in-the-u-s-100718/#comment-686321 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:16:13 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=25528#comment-686321 Those idiots like to waste money. LOLOLOLOLOL!

]]> By: Global Geek News Podcast #74 /thousands-more-bittorrent-users-to-be-sued-in-the-u-s-100718/#comment-686032 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:03:05 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=25528#comment-686032 [...] Thousands more bittorrent users to be sued in the US [...]

]]> By: Anonymous /thousands-more-bittorrent-users-to-be-sued-in-the-u-s-100718/#comment-686002 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:12:44 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=25528#comment-686002 Yep…and $64,000,000 equals 64,000,000 worth of ITunes downloads that they’ll never recover.

]]> By: tats /thousands-more-bittorrent-users-to-be-sued-in-the-u-s-100718/#comment-685778 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:14:59 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=25528#comment-685778 RIAA losing millions in their lawsuits-

Some figures have come to light regarding the RIAA’s expenditures versus their winnings in the various lawsuits they started against file sharers. Over a three year period, from 2006 through 2008, they spent approximately $64 million and recovered……$1.36 million.

The story is here -

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2010/07/ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-riaa-paid-its-lawyers.html

The RIAA paid Holmes Roberts & Owen $9,364,901 in 2008, Jenner & Block more than $7,000,000, and Cravath Swain & Moore $1.25 million, to pursue its “copyright infringement” claims, in order to recover a mere $391,000. [ps there were many other law firms feeding at the trough too; these were just the ones listed among the top 5 independent contractors.]

Embarrassing.

If the average settlement were $3,900, that would mean 100 settlements for the entire year.

As bad as it was, I guess it was better than the numbers for 2007, in which more than $21 million was spent on legal fees, and $3.5 million on “investigative operations” … presumably MediaSentry. And the amount recovered was $515,929.

And 2006 was similar: they spent more than $19,000,000 in legal fees and more than $3,600,000 in “investigative operations” expenses to recover $455,000.

So all in all, for a 3 year period, they spent around $64,000,000 in legal and investigative expenses to recover around $1,361,000.

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