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69 More Lawsuits from Strike 3 Holdings and Malibu Media

Reddit user /u/beardfearer may fear beards, but not copyright noticesStrike 3 Holdings and Malibu Media are continuing to blanket the country in BitTorrent-based file sharing lawsuits, this time in California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Strike 3 Holdings has been particularly busy, filing 17 cases in California, 7 in Illinois, 16 in Maryland, and 5 in New York. Malibu Media has also filed 9 new cases in Michigan, 5 in New Jersey, and 10 in Pennsylvania.

Both companies file similar lawsuits. They allege that they have hired investigators to monitor BitTorrent traffic and record IP addresses that contribute to the downloading and sharing of the Plaintiffs’ copyrighted films. They then sue the internet subscriber as a John Doe and subpoena the identity of the subscriber from the internet service provider (ISP).

Although downloading through BitTorrent may feel commonplace, the lawsuits against alleged downloaders are serious and represent thousands of dollars in damages per infringement. When multiple infringements are alleged, damages granted by the court can easily escalate into 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars. This makes an early and effective defense against these suits all the more important.

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Strike 3 Holdings and Malibu Media Continue to File Record Breaking Number of Cases

Reddit user /u/beardfearer may fear beards, but not copyright noticesStrike 3 Holdings and Malibu Media continue to inundate Federal courts around the country with file-sharing lawsuits against individual, anonymous internet subscribers. In the past few days, Strike 3 Holdings has filed 62 copyright infringement lawsuits in California (29 cases), Colorado (9 cases), Illinois (6 cases), New York (6 cases), Pennsylvania (1 case), and Virginia (11 cases). Malibu Media has also filed 23 additional cases in Michigan (1 case), New Jersey (12 cases), and Texas (8 cases). This has been a record breaking year. So far, Strike 3 Holdings has filed more than 1700 lawsuits this year. Malibu Media is not far behind with more than 1000 cases.

Although different companies, both Strike 3 Holdings and Malibu Media have similar tactics in aggressively pursuing alleged downloaders of their adult films. Strike 3 Holdings owns the Blacked, Tushy, and Vixen brands. Malibu Media owns the X-Art brand. Both Plaintiffs begin by identifying an IP address they claim participated in downloading and sharing their films through Bittorrent networks and then sue the unnamed account holder as a John Doe. As they only have an IP address, they ask the courts to subpoena the defendant’s identity from the Internet Service Provider (ISP) so the defendant can be formally served.

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Malibu Media adds 14 lawsuits to the Pennsylvania docket in July

Malibu Media has been filing more lawsuits in Pennsylvania and around the United States. The suits continue their trend of targeting downloads done via software using the bittorrent protocol.

Malibu Media added 14 lawsuits to the Pennsylvania docket in July:

  • 2:14-cv-04190-ER MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. DOE filed 07/10/14
  • 2:14-cv-04191-MSG MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. JOHN DOE filed 07/10/14
  • 2:14-cv-04192-LS MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. JOHN DOE filed 07/10/14
  • 2:14-cv-04193-NS MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. JOHN DOE SUBSCRIBER ASSIGNED IP ADDRESS 69.249.66.159 filed 07/10/14
  • 2:14-cv-04194-MMB MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. JOHN DOE SUBSCRIBER ASSIGNED IP ADDRESS 71.225.140.223 filed 07/10/14
  • 2:14-cv-04195-ER MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. JOHN DOE filed 07/10/14
  • 2:14-cv-04196-RBS MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. JOHN DOE filed 07/10/14
  • 2:14-cv-04207-LFR MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. JOHN DOE filed 07/11/14
  • 2:14-cv-04209-RB MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. DOE filed 07/11/14
  • 2:14-cv-04210-JS MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. DOE filed 07/11/14
  • 2:14-cv-04211-LFR MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. JOHN DOE filed 07/11/14
  • 2:14-cv-04398-RB MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. JOHN DOE SUBSCRIBER ASSIGNED IP ADDRESS 98.114.11.127 filed 07/23/14
  • 5:14-cv-04188-LS MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. JOHN DOE filed 07/10/14
  • 5:14-cv-04189-LS MALIBU MEDIA, LLC v. DOE filed 07/10/14

If you have received a notice of a subpoena or summons in a Malibu Media or other copyright case, please call immediately at (888) 801-8681.

Yours,
Leonard French