000041910 000__ 01373cam\a22002535i\4500 000041910 001__ 41910 000041910 003__ SzGeWIPO 000041910 005__ 20240708145851.0 000041910 008__ 200619s2015\\\\sz\\\\\\r\\\\\000\0\eng\d 000041910 022__ $$a0736-7694 000041910 040__ $$aSzGeWIPO$$beng$$erda 000041910 041__ $$aeng 000041910 1001_ $$aMentzer, Stefan 000041910 1001_ $$aLa Marca, Michael 000041910 24503 $$aJoinder and Early Discovery in Bittorrent Copyright Infringement Lawsuits 000041910 264_1 $$a[New York City, New York] :$$bYeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law,$$c2015. 000041910 300__ $$a35 pages 000041910 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000041910 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia 000041910 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier 000041910 520__ $$aA “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. 000041910 525__ $$aPublished in : Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law, vol. 33, no. 1 (2015) 000041910 650_0 $$aBitTorrent 000041910 650_0 $$aCopyright 000041910 650_0 $$aLawsuit 000041910 650_0 $$aPeer-to-peer 000041910 650_0 $$aP2P 000041910 650_0 $$aIllegal download 000041910 85641 $$uhttp://www.cardozoaelj.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Mentzer-La-Marca-Final.pdf$$yView this resource 000041910 904__ $$aJournal article 000041910 980__ $$aBIB