Avi Lerner Declares War On ‘Survivor’ Pirates

After the controversy surrounding the pirating of The Expendables 3, producer Avi Lerner vowed to file 10 million lawsuits.  I’m not sure how things worked out on that front but I’d imagine that it turned out to be a non-starter, or quagmire at best.

Another movie that took a blow was the Pierce Brosnan-led thriller Survivor, also produced by Lerner.  That movie was pirated too, streamed on a website called Popcorn Time.  Lerner and Nu Image filed a suit against 16 users of the software Popcorn Time for illegally streaming the release.

Sometimes called the ‘Netflix of BitTorrent,’ Popcorn Time provides an interface for streaming movies and TV over BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file-sharing platform often associated with piracy (though the company denies the reports).

The complaint states in boldface, ‘Popcorn Time exists for one purpose and one purpose only: to steal copyrighted content.’ Nu Image and Millennium claim Survivor has been downloaded “hundreds of thousands of times,’ with over 10,000 illegal downloads in Oregon.

You can check out PvtCaboose’s review of Survivor right here.