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Civil Procedure Keyed to Cross
Liberty Media Holdings, LLC v. Bittorrent Swarm
Citation:
277 F.R.D. 672 (2011)Facts
Liberty Media Holdings, LLC, the registered owner of the copyright to the motion picture “Corbin Fisher Amateur College Men Down on the Farm,” filed a complaint against multiple defendants for allegedly infringing on their copyright. The defendants were all users of BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that allows users to join a “swarm” to download and upload from each other simultaneously. The process begins with one user (a “seed”) who makes the file available by creating a “torrent” file containing identifying information. Other users (“peers”) can then download portions of the file from multiple sources and, in turn, become sources for those portions. Plaintiff provided information showing that the defendants used BitTorrent on different days and at different times over a two-month period, with only two defendants using it simultaneously.
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