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Lucasfilm Heads to Court to Unmask "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Image Leaker

posted by martyb on Tuesday February 03 2015, @08:20PM   
from the pics-or-it-didn't-happen-oh-wait... dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Lucasfilm is demanding that popular photo-sharing site ImageShack ( https://imageshack.com ) cough up the identity of one of its users the studio says uploaded an infringing photograph connected to its upcoming Star Wars movie.

ImageShack has already deleted the picture from user "Darth-Simi" whose account was used to post a picture that was described as a villain from the upcoming "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" movie. The image included a glimpse of a red crossguard lightsaber like the one shown in a teaser trailer officially released in November. Lucasfilm's parent company, Disney, is seeking a San Francisco federal court to order California-based ImageShack to turn over Darth-Simi's personal information.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/lucasfilm-heads-to-court-to-unmask-star-wars-the-force-awakens-image-leaker/

• Okay, but does anything stay dead on the internet Okay, but does anything stay dead on the internet (Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Tuesday February 03 2015, @08:35PM

  by ikanreed (3164) on Tuesday February 03 2015, @08:35PM (#140835) Journal

  I'm far more interested in spiting a marketing team interested in precisely managing hype than anything actually about Star Wars.

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• And here you are... And here you are... (Score: 2) by MrGuy on Tuesday February 03 2015, @09:32PM

  by MrGuy (1007) on Tuesday February 03 2015, @09:32PM (#140856)

  ...talking about the story, which means you're talking about the movie. And possibly (even if is is just out of spite) searching the internet for their image.

  It's really true. All publicity is good publicity.

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  • Re:And here you are... (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 03 2015, @09:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 03 2015, @09:54PM (#140866)

    It's really true. All publicity is good publicity.

    Bill Cosby might disagree.

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