More than 200 thousand users of BitTorrent in the United States have been targets of lawsuits

The judicial system is overloaded with the United States claims about violations of copyright, which focuses mainly on BitTorrent-users. Another impressive mark of 200 thousand defendants in such cases has been overcome in the beginning of August, marks the site. As a general rule, rights holders are trying to first find out your personal information to offer the defendant to settle the issue in the pretrial order. Queries are on average several hundred to a couple thousand dollars. If the method fails, the plaintiffs continue to require a court more substantial compensation. The rapid development of Internet technologies have called into question the future of the traditional business model of music and video publishers. As a result, they have found a new source of income, receiving money from users through the courts. If at least half of Internet users, against whom filed lawsuits, agreed to pay $ 2.5 thousand dollars, holders will receive an additional quarter billion dollars, says TorrentFreak. Russian rights holders have not yet adopted the practice of overseas colleagues. Experts interviewed by RIA Novosti, confident that the majority of Internet users who are not related to business, based on the computation in a network of infringing content, the prosecution of the owners have not yet safe.