Lionsgate has filed a lawsuit over Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables 3, after it was leaked online weeks before its cinema release.
A DVD-quality version of the film appeared online last week, and was downloaded over 189,000 times within 24 hours.
Movie and data analysts have predicted that the film could get millions of downloads by the time the actual film opens.
According to The Hollywood Reporter , Lionsgate has filed the lawsuit against a group of anonymous individuals known as ‘John Does 1-10.’
The lawsuit has been directed at the operators of a variety of file-sharing websites, which includes limetorrents.com, swantshare.com, dotsemper.com, billionuploads.com, hilfile.eu, played.to.
Lionsgate is also seeking an injunction to secure that illegal downloads cannont continue, and additional restrictions to block operators from moving the illegal content to a new service.
They are demanding that all digital copies of the film and additional technical equipment relating to the leak be turned over to them/court as well.
Lionsgate filed the lawsuit Thursday [July 31] in a US District Court in California.
The Expendables 3 hits theaters on August 15.
Lionsgate’s lawsuit was filed on Thursday (July 31) in a US District Court in California.
