June 21, 2011
Trolls and the Junk Science
One of the blog readers asked me to publish his thoughts, which I gladly do. I only touched formatting, not the content. I decided to write this after hearing this…
Month: June 2011
June 20, 2011
Sperlein volturarily dismisses Mayra Gonzales
As expected, today Mayra Gonzales (her story was covered by TorrentFreak here and here) was dismissed with prejudice from IO Group v. Does 1-50 inclusive case. Since I’m pretty sure…
June 18, 2011
Deception in court. Part I: EFF is pro-piracy
I filed my Opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion to Strike on 4/11/11. IO Group’s council then provided his Reply to Opposition on 4/15/11. Let’s read the following paragraph on page 2…
June 18, 2011
Copyright trolls: domestic terrorists?
Merriam-Webster, “terrorism”: Definition of TERRORISM : the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion Merriam-Webster, “terror”: Definition of TERROR : a state of intense fear :…
June 17, 2011
Mysterious Doe #151: an honest mistake?
Doe #151 was not listed in the original complaint : see page 26: … 164. Defendant Doe 150, without authorization, reproduced Plaintiff’s registered work OverDrive (U.S. registration No. PA 1-660-158)…
June 16, 2011
Does 1-244: is the entire complaint bogus?
I started re-reading IO Group v. Does 1-244 court filings in order to document numerous deceptions by IO Group’s council, Mr. Sperlein. To my astonishment, I immediately discovered a major…
June 14, 2011
A few words about Sperlein’s error-prone infringement detection technology
“You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide” Old North Korean proverb If it goes as far as evidence discovery, hard drives of those who did not…
June 13, 2011
Sperlein’s buddies are investigated for fraud
“Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are” Old English proverb In order to increase leverage of his ransom demands and hence increase the settlement…
June 12, 2011
Anatomy of extortion: a typical sad story
While Ms. Gonzales’ story had some publicity, there are many dramas that only few had noticed. Here is one of them, from our case. As all the other victims, Ms….
June 10, 2011
More light under the bridge
Copyright trolling phenomenon has attracted some big media attention. Good news, one of my goals is publicity — exactly what trolls want to avoid. Also I was pleasantly surprised that…
