“Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge
Allegedly fake filmmaker targeted trackers like PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, and HDBits.
Torrent trackers suspect a banned user could have impersonated a filmmaker in a lawsuit against six private sites for copyright infringement. Last September, torrent tracker enthusiast TorrentFreak reported that Matthew Schneider, a purported independent filmmaker, sued PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, and HDBits among others. The filmmaker alleged that these platforms infringed on copyrights of movies he claimed to have made.
For months, Schneider pursued a legal battle with Cloudflare to expose the operators of the alleged infringing sites using a copyright claim. However, the actual filmmaker behind the films cited in the case declared that he was not involved with the plaintiff's lawsuit. In a sworn statement, the legitimate filmmaker confirmed he had no affiliation with Schneider and had never appeared in the case.
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