A film company suing 5,865 BitTorrent downloaders over the flick Nude Nuns with Big Guns doesn’t own the rights to the movie, according to court documents and interviews. Incentive Capital of Utah took ownership last month of the B-rated flick about a sister who is “one Bad Mother.” Yet two weeks after Incentive Capital foreclosed and assumed Camelot Distribution Group’s titles because of an allegedly soured loan, Camelot filed a mass copyright lawsuit (.pdf) on behalf of Nude Nuns claiming it owned the rights.
In a Thursday story, Wired.com featured Camelot Distribution Group’s legal tactics as part of a nationwide practice by small-time movie houses trying to extract legal settlements — in the $3,000 range — from as many as 130,000 alleged BitTorrent downloaders across the country. The story questioned Camelot’s and others’ legal methods, but assumed Camelot owned the film.
“They don’t presently own that film,” Joseph Pia, Incentive Capital’s attorney, said Friday in a telephone interview from his Utah office. “We are the legal title owners. ”
God, Guns, and Bikers… The heck with the movie, the poster is worth the price of admission.
The mass suing for illegal downloading is about to begin because of a ruling made by U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell in D.C.
The ISP’s are complaining about getting so many subpoena requests so I wouldn’t be surprised if the ISP’s themselves start to enact restrictions on downloads soon.
#1 so you must still have unlimited downloads? AT&T and everybody is capping downloads. They do have the bandwidth on wired they just don’t want to let you use it. Why improve you home delivery when you can charge more for less?
My experience is with Qwest.
Tell you now, don’t pay anything extra for their “Faster” download since they throttle their internet speeds.
People are using the courts for promotion now?
I would never pay a dime to see this turkey.
I wouldn’t waste the space on my hard drive for it either.
Its sad when people are so desperate for “buzz” that they resort to this.
I support the idea of ISP’s throttling bandwidth, putting caps on usage, or stopping illegal downloads. This allows more bandwidth for legitimate users.
The movie is just as awesome as the poster. Total grindhouse/exploitation movie, a la Machete.
IANAL but… isn’t this fraud?
Its all about choice
The “entertainment industry” – some entertainment rather abuse of the public
I guess the main difference between the costs of a cd and how its treats its artists and the current tactics is that only it directly involves lawyers not money taken from the pocketbooks of abused consumers
Some choices
Welcome to the new intellectual property world.
They might make more money selling copies of the poster.
Nah, the Nun should be a PENGUIN with “Cutouts” in her Habit !!!
Why is this a surprise. The rule of law is all but lost in this country when it comes to corporations. Look at the banking and real estate industries and what they are getting away with.
The rule of law these days only applies to the little people, and its a stacked deck.
I thought this article was a reprint from the Onion.
WTF! I clicked the poster and it didn’t blow up, it just got bigger.
Now they owned the rights to the film and (claim) they suffered losses from pirates. Later, they lost the rights to the film.
Question: Are they not entitled to sue for the losses they incurred? Or were those losses passed along with the property?
Not defending. Just asking. I saw the film in Cambodia. (I’m sure it was a legal download.) I couldn’t help myself. I have such a crush on Sister Mary Hand Grenade. That IS Sis Mary in the movie, right?
That movie was awesome.
No chick flick disguised as an action film like ALL of James Cameron’s movies.
Just Tits, bush and bullets flying everywhere.
#15. #16. I haven’t seen the flick…you guys are my hero…as is Sister Mary Hand Grenade.
Ooooh, I was all pissed off about the copy rights bull until I read #16. Is it on Netflix?
No Ownership ??? Lawyers never want to be confused by the facts !!! Let the Lawsuits fly and lets see what sticks !!! The “Law” is what you make of it !!!
This is similar to banks foreclosing on property they don’t own.
I have made some suggestions to studios that they engage more aggressively in providing virus infested versions of films for illegal downloaders. At least one studio has expressed interest in this.
In the future, studios will probably have it in their contracts that they retain the right to sue movie downloaders and retain all revenues thereof. Kind of like movie merchandising rights, but only applying to litigation fees and fines. And since that would be an unknown amount of revenue, it would have to be negotiated as a separate factor in new movie contracts. What’s next? Making such fees a Futures Commodity?