Films Grossing More in Court than the Box Office

[JBeukema]

On March 7, Camelot Distribution Group, an obscure film company in Los Angeles, unveiled its latest and potentially most profitable release: a federal lawsuit against BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the company’s 2010 B-movie revenge flick Nude Nuns With Big Guns between January and March of this year. The single lawsuit targets 5,865 downloaders, making it theoretically worth as much as $879,750,000 — more money than the U.S. box-office gross for Avatar.

How Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Turn Low-Budget Movies Into Big Bucks | Threat Level | Wired.com

 

[JBeukema]

It gets better

Studio Suing BitTorrent Pirates Does Not Own the Movie, Records Show | Threat Level | Wired.com

 

[editec]

Of course, we don't have all the facts but they might be suing for the damages done to them when they did own the copyright.

I think they'd probably still have a claim for damages