Legal Niches

File Sharer Preemptively Asks for Hurt Locker Case Dismissal

By james_fudge

Here's an odd story for you: a man running for Saginaw County commissioner (Michigan) has injected himself into a file-sharing case involving the makers of the film "The Hurt Locker" and 5,000 "John Doe" defendants. That man, 28-year old Jeff Kowalski, filed an answer to that court fight naming himself as a "defendant" and asking that the plaintiff's case be dismissed. This is a pretty odd move considering that the plaintiff has not officially mentioned any of the 5,000 defendants by name.

So why would Kowalski name himself as a defendant? It's certainly not because he traded the film in question with others; in fact he claims that he has never shared "The Hurt Locker" with other file-sharers on the Internet. But Kowalski does admit that he's shared his fair share of movies online in the past. Oddness abounds. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 01, 2010 (boomark / email).