Judge Puts Hollywood File-Sharing Suits on Hold

A week after members of the Motion Picture Association of America filed 11 lawsuits against hundreds of people they accused of using file-sharing networks to share copies of movies, a U.S. District Court judge found the process improper and ordered the cases to be put on hold for all but one of the defendants. In the wave of lawsuits, the MPAA sued groups, identified by their IP addresses, and demanded to know users' identities.