Legal Opinion
First Time Videos, LLC v. Does 1-76
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided August 16, 2011No. 11 C 3831PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ELAINE E. BUCKLO, District Judge.
Plaintiff First Time Videos, LLC, a producer of adult entertainment content, filed this suit against seventy-six unnamed defendants,1 alleging a claim for copyright infringement under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 504, and a common-law claim for civil conspiracy. Plaintiff claims that the defendants illegally reproduced and distributed one of its copyrighted videos using so-called BitTorrent technology. As one court has explained, BitTorrent:
is a decentralized method of distributing data. Since its release approximately 10 years…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Sony Music Entertainment Inc. v. Does 1-40District Court, S.D. New York · 2004
- First Time Videos, LLC v. Does 1-500District Court, N.D. Illinois · 2011
- Call of the Wild Movie, LLC v. DOES 1-1,062District Court, District of Columbia · 2011
- Achte/Neunte Boll Kino Beteiligungs Gmbh & Co. v. Does 1-4,577District Court, District of Columbia · 2010
- Voltage Pictures, LLC v. Does 1-5District Court, District of Columbia · 2011
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Digital Sin, Inc. v. Does 1-176District Court, S.D. New York · 2012
- Pacific Century International, Ltd. v. John Does 1-37District Court, N.D. Illinois · 2012
- In re DoeTexas Supreme Court · 2014
- Third Degree Films v. Does 1-47District Court, D. Massachusetts · 2012
- Malibu Media, LLC v. John Does 1-6District Court, N.D. Illinois · 2013
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