@article{41910,
      author = {Mentzer, Stefan and La Marca, Michael},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/41910},
      title = {Joinder and Early Discovery in Bittorrent Copyright  Infringement Lawsuits},
      abstract = {A “nationwide blizzard” of copyright infringement  lawsuits against users of the peer-to-peer (“P2P”) file  sharing protocol BitTorrent has swept the courts in the  past few years. Hundreds of thousands of individuals have  been sued in these cases mostly by adult entertainment  companies seeking to crack down on illegal downloads of  their films. What several courts have referred to as an  “outbreak of litigation” follows on the heels of the  surging popularity in BitTorrent itself. By some measures  the leading P2P company has 170 million monthly users, more  than Pinterest and Spotify.},
      recid = {41910},
      pages = {35 pages},
}