Strike 3 Holdings, LLC v. John Doe subscriber assigned IP address 73.162.78.213

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division STRIKE 3 HOLDINGS, LLC, Case No. 3:23-cv-02526-LB

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING EX PARTE

APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO

v. SERVE THIRD-PARTY SUBPOENA

JOHN DOE SUBSCRIBER ASSIGNED IP Re: ECF No.

ADDRESS 73.162.78.213,

15 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiff Strike 3 Holdings owns the copyrights for several adult motion pictures.1 It alleges that someone — the Doe defendant here — who uses the IP address 73.162.78.213 infringed on those copyrights.2 Despite its own efforts, Strike 3 has not been able to identify the individual associated with that IP address.3 Strike 3 now asks the court to let it serve a subpoena on non-party Comcast Cable, the Doe defendant’s internet-service provider (ISP), to learn the Doe 23 24

1 Appl. – ECF No. 9 at 9. Citations refer to material in the Electronic Case File (ECF); pinpoint citations are to the ECF-generated page numbers…