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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   Printer-friendly
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/

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday February 04 2015, @04:09PM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Wednesday February 04 2015, @04:09PM (#141166)

    The difference in number of cries of "oppression" when following proper procedure versus not is almost(but not quite, thanks for being a sane one) zero.

    Too bad the "proper procedure" often ends up with people being given ridiculous punishments whenever copyright is involved. That could be one factor.

    That background noise is actually part of what makes violating rights so much easier, because collectively, as citizens engaged in discourse, we love to cry wolf.

    There truly is a wolf here, and that wolf would be scummy corporations and the politicians in their pockets.

  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by ikanreed on Wednesday February 04 2015, @04:56PM

    by ikanreed (3164) on Wednesday February 04 2015, @04:56PM (#141201) Journal

    You. You're the problem.

    • (Score: 1) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday February 04 2015, @11:27PM

      by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Wednesday February 04 2015, @11:27PM (#141352)

      I don't think acknowledging the fact that copyright enforcement often results in unjust punishments is a problem at all. It's good that they're at least going through the proper channels, but that is all that is good about this.