The recent spate of federal lawsuits against accused movie pirates has led to an extraordinary outpouring of “motions to quash” the subpoenas issued in these cases. Some of these motions are more creative than others—case in point, the motion filed this week in Chicago by someone accused of sharing the Uwe Boll film Far Cry.

Though the case was actually filed in Washington, DC, one Charnae Terry of Chicago went to the Northern District of Illinois instead and filed a motion to quash. It was not, as are so many other such motions, a plea to quash the subpoena for lack of jurisdiction. Instead, it’s an admission that Terry runs an open WiFi network with a Comcast cable connection and shares it with her neighborhood.

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