BitTorrent users don't "act in concert," so judge slashes mass P2P case

Spero thus severed 187 defendants from the case; he noted that this approach has become common among California federal judges, making the Golden State an unpromising place to pursue P2P litigation en masse. Suing people remains an option, but one that has to be exercised on a case-by-case basis with all the filing fees and massive increase in paperwork that this entails. - Nate Anderson, ars technica

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