Judge Shuts Down Another Mass Copyright Case Characterizes Lawsuits as Massive Collection Scheme

This case, like many weve seen around the country, involved a pornographic work.

Plaintiff sued more than 5,000 individuals anonymously based only on their ISP addresses, for allegedly exchanging an infringing file over a BitTorrent network. The copyright owner claimed that participation in BitTorrent swarm� was a form of conspiracy, meaning it could sue everyone at once in California.

Source:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/09/judge-shuts-down-another-mass-copyright-case