FUNimation Drops One Piece Lawsuit
FUNimation has officially dropped its copyright infringement lawsuit against an unidentified individual that downloaded One Piece episode 481 via Bit Torrent without authorization. On January 24, 2011, FUNimation filed suit against 1,337 unidentified individuals accused of downloading One Piece episode 481 without authorization. On February 10, 2011, Senior US District Judge Royal Furgeson declared that FUNimation could not collectively sue all 1,337 individuals. FUNimation immediately dropped 1,336 defendants from the lawsuit. On March 18, 2011, FUNimation dropped its suit against the lone remaining individual but emphasized its legal right to re-file the suit against any of the original defendants.
Source: Anime News Network
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The End for Funimation — if you can’t defend your copyrights, you are defrauding your paying customers.
The pirates and shitheads win again.
that’s leet
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we can close this most recent chapter of Fear of the End, a procedural drama that has had us glued to our seats (or, perhaps, not so much) for several years now.