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Dallas Buyers Club LLC has filed lawsuits around the country alleging people illegally downloaded the copyrighted movie Dallas Buyers Club using BitTorrent file-sharing software. Almost 2,500 people have been targeted. For most people the process starts with receiving a notice from your ISP that a subpoena was received to reveal the identity

On July 14 2014, Dallas Buyers Club LLC filed another federal copyright lawsuit in Colorado, targeting an additional 20 unnamed Doe defendants. The case is Dallas Buyers Club, LLC v. Does 1-20 1:14-cv-01945 Dallas Buyers Club LLC alleges these as-yet anonymous Doe defendants illegally downloaded the movie Dallas Buyers Club using BitTorrent

On July 8 2014, Dallas Buyers Club LLC filed new federal copyright lawsuits in Indiana for the first time and added new lawsuits in Wisconsin. These new lawsuits target an additional 145 unnamed Doe defendants. Dallas Buyers Club LLC alleges these as-yet anonymous Doe defendants illegally downloaded the movie Dallas Buyers Club

On July 2 2014, Dallas Buyers Club LLC filed five new federal copyright lawsuits in the Eastern District of Michigan. These new lawsuits target an additional 97 unnamed Doe defendants. Dallas Buyers Club LLC alleges these as-yet anonymous Doe defendants illegally downloaded the movie Dallas Buyers Club using BitTorrent or similar peer-to-peer

In late June 2014, Malibu Media LLC entered the waters in Northern District of Ohio filing 16 new copyright infringement lawsuits. The Northern District of Ohio (NDOH) has seemed somewhat hostile to copyright trolls. For example, one federal judge, James S. Gwin,  sua sponte severed and dismissed all 197 doe defendants in