The Motion Picture Association of America has filed a lawsuit in Rome alleging an area resident made unauthorized copies of movies and distributed them over the Internet.
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Rome, the MPAA is accusing James Wilmon, of an unlisted address, of copyright infringement and demands compensation for the alleged violation.
While Wilmon’s address is not given, court documents claim he lives and committed these infractions within the Northern District of Georgia.
He is accused of copying and distributing three movies: “Robots,” “Hide and Seek” and “House of Wax.”
“Plaintiffs (Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century Fox) bring this action to stop defendant from copying and distributing to others over the Internet,” the complaint reads. “Defendant’s infringements allow… others to unlawfully obtain and distribute for free works that the plaintiffs spend millions of dollars to create and/or distribute.”
Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century Fox are demanding all copies of movies are destroyed and that they are paid damages and costs for bringing this lawsuit.
Documents claim Wilmon has, and continues to use, an “online media distribution system” to allow others to copy the movies.
A similar case was recently filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against a Bartow County woman accused of using the program Kazaa to copy and distribute music. Software such as Kazaa can automatically redistribute media without the knowledge of the operator.
