Strike 3 Holdings, LLC v. John Doe subscriber assigned IP address 174.160.37.27
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 San Francisco Division 11 STRIKE 3 HOLDINGS, LLC, Case No. 23-cv-06675-LB
12 Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING EX PARTE
13 v. APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO
SERVE THIRD-PARTY SUBPOENA
14 JOHN DOE SUBSCRIBER ASSIGNED IP ADDRESS 174.160.37.27, Re: ECF No. 8 15 Defendant. 16 17 INTRODUCTION 18 The plaintiff Strike 3 Holdings owns the copyrights for several adult motion pictures.1 It 19 alleges that someone — the Doe defendant here — who uses the IP address 174.160.37.27 20 infringed on those copyrights.2 Despite its own efforts, Strike 3 has not been able to identify the 21 individual associated with that IP address.3 Strike 3 now asks the court to let it serve a subpoena 22 on non-party Comcast Cable, the Doe defendant’s internet-service provider (ISP), to learn the Doe 23 24 25
26 1 Appl. – ECF No. 8 at 9. Citations refer to material in the Electronic Case File (ECF); pinpoint citations are to the ECF-generated page numbers at the…