The Hollywood Reporter first noted the lawsuit campaign, which isn't designed so much to stop piracy as to monetize it. It is spearheaded in the US by a new entity calling itself the US Copyright Group, which has filed a host of such lawsuits in recent weeks against P2P users, mostly involving smaller independent films. The move is part of a new international approach to recouping some of the money believed lost to online piracy. The first suit from Achte/Neunte Boll Kino Beteiligungs GmbH targets "Does 1-2,094" over their alleged sharing of Far Cry on BitTorrent networks. This month, Boll found a new revenue source: mass lawsuits against P2P downloaders in US federal court. This guy is pure evil, distilled in an untalented director's body."īoll went on to make such films as Postal and Far Cry, taking advantage of German film tax credits to obtain continued financing for his work, and he wasn't above actually punching out his critics in the ring. Back in 2006, Ars Gaming Editor Ben Kuchera summed up Boll's problem: "After he watched the final cut of Alone in the Dark, he actually decided to release it. German director Uwe Boll has made something of of specialty out of producing terrible movies based on video games.
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