preliminary discovery

In the Dallas Buyers Club proceeding, Dallas Buyers Club and Voltage Pictures sought preliminary discovery from a number of ISPs of customer names and addresses associated with 4,716 IP addresses alleged to have been used to infringe copyright.   As we previously reported (see our post here), on 7 April 2015, Justice Perram was satisfied in principle that the ISPs should give preliminary discovery, but ordered that production be stayed to allow the Court’s consideration of DBC’s proposed correspondence to ensure that DBC did not engage in “speculative invoicing”.