Dallas Buyers Club Sues BitTorrent Pirates Citing Oscar Wins

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[url="/images/dallas.jpg"][img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/dallas.jpg[/img][/url]Movie studio Voltage is no stranger to suing BitTorrent users.

The company has pioneered mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the United States and is estimated to have made a lot of money doing so.

Most recently it has filed lawsuits against alleged downloaders of Dallas Buyers Club. The [url="http://torrentfreak.com/downloaded-dallas-buyers-club-the-piracy-lawsuits-are-coming-140207/"]first lawsuits[/url] were filed on behalf of Voltage, and this week they were followed by two mass-BitTorrent suits “Dallas Buyers Club, LLC” filed with an Illinois federal court.

The two lawsuits target 107 individuals who allegedly shared a pirated copy of the film from their home connections late January. While most of the language in the complaint is standard, the filmmakers appear to have waited for the Academy Awards, as the recent Oscar wins are prominently featured.

“Dallas Buyers Club recently received six Academy Award nominations including Best Motion Picture of the Year and was awarded Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Matthew McConaughey) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Jared Leto),” one of the complaints [url="http://www.scribd.com/doc/212012414/dallas19f79ebd2-f397-4603-a3c3-5524f5d06c25"]reads[/url].

In addition to the six Oscars, the makers also mention the Golden Globes and several other awards the Dallas buyers Club has won recently, stressing that the film “has significant value”



[b]The complaint[/b][url="http://torrentfreak.com/images/dallas-oscar.jpg"][img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/dallas-oscar.jpg[/img][/url]

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