Conde Nast v. Does [1]

On December 17, 2009, Conde Nast filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against unknown Doe defendants asserting claims for copyright infringement, contributory copyright infringement, and violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. 

According to the Complaint, sometime around September 2009, Defendants used a third party's user name and password to access Conde Nast's computer system and download over 1100 files containing pages from various Conde Nast publications, including pages from the December 2009 issue of GQ.  The Complaint alleges that copies of these images were subsequently uploaded to the website ImageBarn.com, but were later removed in response to a DMCA takedown notice issued by Conde Nast.  According to the Complaint, the day after the infringing images were removed by Image Barn, the defendants created a blog called FashionZag, located at FashionZag.blogspot.com, where the images were once again posted.  Conde Nast claims that the images were also uploaded to the website BayIMG.com, allegedly run by the people behind The Pirate Bay, and that the files were subsequently downloaded and made available on third party websites, including TheDrizzyEffect.com and TwitPic.com.

On December 18, 2009, Conde Nast filed an ex parte motion seeking discovery from AT&T, the ISP from which Conde Nast alleges the unauthorized access of its computers originated, and Google, owner of the Blogger service that hosts the FashionZag blog.  The Court granted Conde Nast's motion on December 21, 2009