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Fight Copyright Trolls
To get each of these new posts going and in an effort to encourage the spirit of those that are new to this vile practice of copyright trolling I am going to post a link to a state specific case where the troll case got slammed which could be used in your Motion to Quash/Sever/Issue a Protective Order.
Nothing useful here that I can find using the internet as sopped to LEXIS/NEXIS, the judges appear to be paper pushers. Reminds me of a college girlfriend from Ohio, boring and useless (in the judges’ case as minders of the court’s integrity and diligence).
I stand corrected there is an interesting case were the ISP, Buckeye Cable,system went to bat for its customers (a very rare occurrence ) and succeeded in getting all Does but Doe 1 severed http://ia600704.us.archive.org/12/items/gov.uscourts.ohnd.179074/gov.uscourts.ohnd.179074.docket.html
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It looks like R&D and Safety Point are really making a home in Ohio. More suits filed.
http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuits/copyright-lawsuits/ohio-northern-district-court/119075/r-d-film-1-llc-v-does-142-162/summary/
http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuits/copyright-lawsuits/ohio-northern-district-court/119074/safety-point-productions-llc-et-al-v-does-97-177/summary/
How weird is it that they’re doing what seems like “continued” cases, starting at 142 and 97 instead of 1 for each case.
Wow, one more Safety Point and one more R&D in Ohio. Plaintiff’s lawyer is Douglas Riddell.
R&D is up to 425 does in Ohio. Not sure why, but they’re suing them piecemeal.
Wow, Ohio really must be the new breeding zone for trolls. New trolls, Riding Films Inc, represented by David J. Butler have three cases. They’re numbered sequentially but separated for ~200 does it looks like.
http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuits/copyright-lawsuits/ohio-southern-district-court/143066/riding-films-inc-v-john-does-129-193/summary/
David J. Butler is co-chair of the Litigation Department of a pretty large law firm, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP. The firm has its own Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_Stettinius_&_Hollister
Its website says more than 300 lawyers work for the firm. Offhand I’d guess that Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP is the largest law firm representing copyright trolls to date. I have not seen basic info for Riding Films, Inc. yet.
Mr. Butler is noted on his firm’s website to be a business lawyer with 14 different categories of commercial experience listed. Exactly NONE of these issues is copyright or intellectual property law.
Representing trolls in an extortion type scheme, especially if the troll plaintiff is a porn purveyor, may tarnish the reputation of the larger group.
According to the firm’s site, David J. Butler is “listed as a Rising Star by Ohio Super Lawyers (2005 – 2012)”. Hopefully, assisting in a shakedown scheme is not a qualification for the 2013 list.
Klinton W. Alexander of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs filed a case in Tennessee for Riding Films Inc. Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs is also a large firm. Its website says it employs about 200 lawyers and that the firm is 200 years old.
It’s pretty sure that a large law firm has many sources of income. It doesn’t need to risk its reputation in the seedy demand racket of video copyright trolling, for a few bucks.
I have no idea what riding films inc. is. I can’t find them with a cursory search. I’ve really been swamped.
But in RFC I noticed that it said “Plaintiffs Riding Films, Inc., NGN Productions, Inc. identifying Other Affiliate NGN Productions, Inc. for Riding Films, Inc”
NGN productions has a IMDB page. They’re Canadian. Here’s the IMDB page:
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0226484/
A bunch of really, really, REALLY, REALLY crappy B-movies it looks like.
Yes. NGN is the “Nasser Group North” production company.
Rider Films is noted as an “Employer for hire of Joseph Nasser”. The only copyrights listed on the web for “Riding Films, Inc” are for the 2012 movie Dawn Rider (2011 script copyright ©right assignments). Dawn Rider is the re-make of a 1935 John Wayne western. NGN has produced other westerns. So likely the cowboys and riding of Riding Films are only the kind that involves a horse.
Both Jack and Joseph Nasser are listed as producers on various films for NGN North. Both have producer credits on IMDB for over 50 films. Joseph also has credits as director, screenwriter and actor.
NGN’s address, just east of Vancouver, Canada is listed as
Nasser Group North
8180 Winston St Burnaby, BC V5A 2H5
(604) 420-4840
NGN Prima filed a Canadian federal court case in Montreal, which granted them discovery for 50 Does alleged to be part of file sharing for the movie “Recoil.”
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Company+collects+data+millions+illegal+downloaders+first+step+crack+down/7613175/story.html
The supposedly-forensic software company for the case is Canipre, based in Montreal. Barry Logan, managing director of Canipre has boasted that his company has files for one million Canadians. Canipre in turn has also partnered with Voltage Pictures, the troll plaintiffs behind the “Hurt Locker” cases in the U.S.
Torrent freak has covered some of the Canadian trolling by Canipre and its partner studios, for instance:
http://torrentfreak.com/judge-delays-teksavvy-copyright-trolls-for-public-interest-intervention-130115/
http://torrentfreak.com/canadian-isp-defends-decision-not-to-oppose-bittorrent-copyright-trolls-121218/
http://torrentfreak.com/canadian-isp-prepares-for-unprecedented-bittorrent-troll-assault-121211/
http://torrentfreak.com/canada-set-for-mass-bittorrent-lawsuits-anti-piracy-company-warns-121127/
Riding Films Inc. filed a copyright trolling case in Tennessee on Nov 30, 2012. NGN Prima Productions also filed one copyright trolling case in Florida Northern District in May 2012 (for the movie Recoil) and two cases in October 2012 in Massachusetts.
Nice work.
And now there’s Zambezia Film Pty, once again being represented by Stamoulis and Weinblatt. 3 cases for 60 does.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6805/125/
Anyone heard if there are any new suits in Ohio?