The sites allegedly allow users to download the movie for free. Even though most sites agreed to remove the pirated film, however, the defendants in the case ignored the request, the judge said.Īmong the BitTorrent sites named as defendants are, ,, played.to, and. Morrow said MarkMonitor responded by issuing thousands of take-down requests. Two hundred and forty-seven thousand illegal downloads of the film were made on peer-to-peer networks nationwide, and the movie has been streamed "hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of times worldwide outside peer-to-peer networks," the court's order states. Just days after "Expendables 3" was stolen, illegal copies of the film were made available for download on hundreds of websites, the judge said. Someone secured a single high-quality digital file of "Expendables 3" using "fraudulent or otherwise unlawful means," the court's findings of fact and conclusions of law states.
Judge Margaret Morrow noted in an injunction order Friday that Lions Gate hired an outside vendor called MarkMonitor as part of its anti-piracy efforts to issue take-down notices to websites that leaked unauthorized copies of the film.
Its complaint against Joe Does 1-10, the operators of various BitTorrent websites, alleged direct copyright infringement, contributory federal copyright infringement and vicarious federal copyright infringement. theaters, but Lions Gate claimed in a July 31 complaint that the film starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others was downloaded more than 2.1 million times after it was leaked online.Ĭiting its exclusive right to distribute the next installment of the popular action franchise, the studio noted that the last movie in the series, "Expendables 2," made more than $575 million worldwide. LOS ANGELES (CN) - Websites sharing a high-quality pirate copy of Lions Gate's upcoming action movie "Expendables 3" must stop doing so, a federal judge ruled.
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