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A judge with the US District Court for the Southern Division of South Dakota has hampered the efforts of the US Copyright Group's mass lawsuit for the movie The Hurt Locker.
The USCG sued thousands of downloaders for downloading an illegal copy of The Hurt Locker, but Judge John Simko has sided with the EFF, ACLU and Public Citizen's arguments that while the IP addresses obtained by USCG provide a rough geographical location of suspected infringers, it is by no means accurate enough to determine jurisdiction, and so without clear geographical boundaries, the Judge cannot order a South Dakota ISP to turn over subscriber information, especially when the original motion was filed in a DC courtroom.
USCG has yet to respond to the court's decision, but many of their other lawsuits in other jurisdiction are still going ahead.
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The USCG sued thousands of downloaders for downloading an illegal copy of The Hurt Locker, but Judge John Simko has sided with the EFF, ACLU and Public Citizen's arguments that while the IP addresses obtained by USCG provide a rough geographical location of suspected infringers, it is by no means accurate enough to determine jurisdiction, and so without clear geographical boundaries, the Judge cannot order a South Dakota ISP to turn over subscriber information, especially when the original motion was filed in a DC courtroom.
USCG has yet to respond to the court's decision, but many of their other lawsuits in other jurisdiction are still going ahead.
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