”There is nothing that links the IP address...

"There is nothing that links the IP address location to the identity of the person actually downloading” or viewing Malibu Media videos, said Judge Ursula Ungaro, U.S. District Court in Miami, in a ruling (http://bit.ly/1gycWYs) against the porn studio filed last Thursday. In Malibu Media v. John Doe, the plaintiff tried to prove that an IP address can be traced back to the copyright infringer, in this case, from a user of BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing service, according to a court document filed by Malibu Media last year (http://bit.ly/1jD5oBs). “Even if this IP address is located within a residence, the geolocation software cannot identify who has access to that residence’s computer and who would actually be using it to infringe Plaintiff’s copyright,” said Ungaro in the decision. In 2012, Malibu Media in U.S. District Court in Dallas accused Verizon of acting in “bad faith” by not turning over identities of Internet subscribers alleged to have shared porn films via BitTorrent (CD Nov 29/12 p15).