Prolific Pirate Bay User Pays $2900 in Settlement Case

• A Hawaiian who has downloaded thousands of movies since 2016 will now pay $2900 in damages.
• The pirate wasn’t aware that he was doing something illegal, and through that Pirate Bay was meant to be used for free file sharing.
• Movie companies are increasingly targeting the elderly now, as all other P2P users hide behind a VPN.

The movie companies “UN4 Productions” and “Millennium Funding” who own the rights for the films “Boyka: Undisputed IV” and “Mechanic: Resurrection”, have finally managed to track down a prolific Pirate Bay uploaded who is responsible for sharing more than a thousand torrents. The name is Gary Mitchell Graham, and he is a resident of Hawaii, living in a property that belongs to a 72-year old named Harding. By obtaining the IP address of the line that was used, the movie studios initially targeted the owner of the apartment, who denied all accusations and convinced the court.

This caused backlash from the local press and the attorney of the movie studios decided to retract the accusations and stop the legal proceedings. However, he investigated the matter further, as the torrents still stemmed from that IP address, so the actual culprit was finally found. Mr. Graham admitted his guilt by saying that he used the Pirate Bay platform to casually upload and download files since 2016. This was in line with the lawyer’s indictment, so no clouds of doubt could form this time. As the pirate clarified, he wasn’t aware of the illegal nature of what he did, saying that:

“I have been downloading torrent files of motion pictures from websites of the Pirate Bay at my residence. I believed that it was acceptable to do so because the websites are completely open with their objective to share files.”

The movie companies focused on the two films mentioned above, but the pirate doesn’t even remember downloading them since he has downloaded thousands of movies. This says something about the films in question and how you may end up paying thousands for something that you watched, but it was so indifferent you will soon not remember anything about it, not even the title. Even worse, you may end up not watching a movie because it was so bad, but you’ll still have an attorney going after you.

Mr. Graham accepted to pay a settlement of $2900 and also promised never to use Pirate Bay again. The owner of the apartment declared that he didn’t know that Graham was pirating movies, so he hasn’t concealed information previously to cover him. Probably, the old man may be yet to understand what happened at all. Obviously, the pirate wasn’t very tech savvy either, as he should have used a VPN tool in order to stay anonymous and keep himself and poor old Harding far from the court halls.

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