JOHNSON, KEVIN C., PEOPLE v

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• holding that district court acts within its discretion in denying leave to amend when further amendment would be futile
• noting that the court also authorized the plaintiff to depose the subscriber in an attempt to identify the alleged infringer
• affirming fee award when plaintiff lacked “a reasonable factual basis” to assert a 22 claim against defendant
• noting 17 that “[i]nternet providers… can go so far as to identify the individual who is registered to a 18 particular IP address (i.e., an account holder
• where IP address was linked to an adult care home with multiple inhabitants who had access to the internet, it was not enough to simply say that the subscriber was the individual infringing on copyrights

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