{"id":94753,"date":"2016-06-10T13:28:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T11:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94753"},"modified":"2016-06-10T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T11:46:36","slug":"thousands-of-movie-pirates-slapped-with-lawsuits-and-r4500-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/94753-thousands-of-movie-pirates-slapped-with-lawsuits-and-r4500-fines","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of movie pirates slapped with lawsuits and R4,500 fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirates who torrented the recent film release London Has Fallen received a nasty surprise, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/london-fallen-pirates-get-automated-300-fines-160609\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TorrentFreak<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film&#8217;s creators\u00a0have sent out automated <strong>$300 (R4,500)<\/strong> fines to thousands of people who illegally downloaded the film, and are now issuing additional lawsuits.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cases are filed against \u201cdoes\u201d who are only known by their IP-address, with the studio then trying to uncover their real identities by subpoenaing their ISPs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After their personal info is released, the accused Internet subscribers will get a settlement offer, which can go up to several thousands dollars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Millennium Films and LHF Productions, two companies behind the film, hope that this will recoup some of the lost earnings\u00a0after the Blu-Ray leaked online.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Crazy 4K liquid-cooled Asus gaming laptops redefine portable gaming\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/93493-crazy-4k-liquid-cooled-asus-gaming-laptops-redefine-portable-gaming.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Crazy 4K liquid-cooled Asus gaming laptops redefine portable gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to First AMD Radeon RX 480 benchmarks leaked\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/94673-first-amd-radeon-rx-480-benchmarks-leaked.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">First AMD Radeon RX 480 benchmarks leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 10 best first-person shooter games of all time\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93615-10-best-first-person-shooter-games-of-all-time.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">10 best first-person shooter games of all time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirates who torrented the recent film release London Has Fallen received a nasty surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":94755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19353,4353,19355,279,19351,10012],"class_list":["post-94753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-fine","tag-lawsuit","tag-london-has-fallen","tag-movie","tag-pirates","tag-torrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94757,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94753\/revisions\/94757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}