First Israeli File Sharing lawsuits

Entertainment industry lawyers in Israel have succeeded in getting the courts to shut down four file sharing websites. They're quoted as saying:

"When we finish with the file-trading websites, we'll move on to the users" and

"There is a great deal of information we've gained regarding individual users which is currently not being taken advantage of. The process of filing a suit in the case of a single file-trader is far more simple. In the eyes of the law, these are infringing users. No one has the right to duplicate copyright protected files...

We know exactly who they are. The entire network is monitored and we have their IP addresses."

Plus on the problem of getting a warrant to identify the user of a particular IP address at a particular time:

"Warrants are not a problem to get."

Individual file sharing lawsuits coming to Israel soon.