Late last week, the purported owner to copyrights in the British film “Plastic” filed at least 20 lawsuits against anonymous Doe defendants in federal courts in both Pennsylvania and Florida.

Plastic is a 2014 crime/comedy film directed by Julian Gilbey.  Unfortunately, the film met with poor reviews upon release and it currently has a 12% aggregate score on Rotten Tomatoes.  According to some reports, Plastic’s box office gross intake was less than half of its production budget.

The copyright lawsuits were filed by Plastic the Movie Limited, a UK company claiming ownership of rights to the film, and the allegations of each of the complaints are substantially identical. The complaints describe in considerable detail the online investigation allegedly performed by Excipio GmbH, which is well known to experienced observers of BitTorrent lawsuits as an affiliate or “shell company” of German investigation firm Guardaley.

In the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the lawsuits were filed by attorney Christopher P. Fiore of Fiore & Barber, LLC in Harleysville, PA.  In the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, the cases were filed by David Tamaroff of Tamaroff & Tamaroff, P.A. in Miami.

In both courts, the plaintiff seeks statutory damages pursuant to the Copyright Act, injunctive relief, and attorney’s fees and costs.

Listings of the individual filings in each court, with a sample complaint from each, are below.  ISP subscribers receiving a subpoena in these matters can contact attorney Benjamin Justus for a free and confidential consultation.

Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Case No: 2:15-cv-1576
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1577
Plastic The Movie Limited v. John Doe Subscriber Assigned IP Address 50.144.3.20
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1578
Plastic The Movie Limited v. John Doe Subscriber Assigned IP Address 50.144.3.22
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1579
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1580
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1581
Plastic The Movie Limited v. John Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1582
Plastic The Movie Limited v. John Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1583
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1584
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1585
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1586
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1587
Plastic The Movie Limited v. John Doe Subscriber Assigned IP Address 69.139.16.149
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1588
Plastic The Movie Limited v. John Doe Subscriber Assigned IP Address 68.84.219.35
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1589
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 2:15-cv-1590
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Middle District of Florida

Case No: 3:15-cv-382
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-386
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-387
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 3:15-cv-388
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 5:15-cv-147
Plastic The Movie Limited v. John Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 5:15-cv-148
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 5:15-cv-149
Plastic The Movie Limited v. John Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 5:15-cv-150
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 5:15-cv-151
Plastic The Movie Limited v. John Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 6:15-cv-509
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015

Case No: 6:15-cv-516
Plastic The Movie Limited v. Doe
Filed: 03/27/2015