Hollywood is not going to be happy about this one. A New York judge has ruled that an IP address alone is not enough to prove that a particular person downloaded files illegally, reports TorrentFreak. The ?landmark case? could have potentially devastating effects on a number of ?mass-BitTorrent? lawsuits currently taking place around the country.
In his ruling on an infringement case involving the illegal downloading of an adult film, New York Magistrate Judge Gary Brown says that copyright infringement cases that provide only an IP address as evidence of who made the illegal download(s) are a ?waste of judicial resources.?
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