John Wiley & Sons, one of the world’s largest book publishers, is continuing its efforts to crack down on BitTorrent piracy

Posted: 2012/04/19 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, Stats / reports

The company has now named several people who allegedly shared Wiley titles online, and is demanding a jury trial against them. If these actually go ahead it will be the first time that BitTorrent-related evidence is tested in a US court.

Last fall, John Wiley and Sons became the first book publisher to go after BitTorrent users in the US.

By filing a mass-BitTorrent lawsuit the company followed mostly in the footsteps of several movie studios, who together have sued more than 250,000 people in the US since early 2010. And the publisher didn’t stop at just one.

More:
http://torrentfreak.com/major-book-publisher-demands-jury-trial-against-bittorrent-pirates-120418/

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