August 31, 2015

Defendant asks judge to declare Malibu Media a vexatious litigant

Nearly every motion authored by Jason Sweet or Dan Booth is a treat. Once in a while the treat is so good I can’t help sharing the joy with others….

August 30, 2015

How Lipscomb & Co take advantage of unrepresented defendants

I’m looking at the 8/28/2015 motion to show cause why a pro se defendant in Malibu Media v. Greg Weaver (FLMD 14-cv-01580) shouldn’t be held in contempt for violating Judge…

August 25, 2015

Feds accuse X-Art/Malibu Media’s attorney Jason Aaron Kotzker of a $7,000,000 payday loan fraud

Colorado attorney Jason Aaron Kotzker filed about 450 shakedown lawsuits on behalf of a “barely legal” pornography purveyor X-Art/Malibu Media in New York and Colorado. In October 2014 he abruptly…

August 23, 2015

Why did Lipscomb cut and run from a seemingly slam dunk case?

Malibu Media v. Michael Harrison (INSD 12-cv-01117) lasted for 3 years and amassed almost 400 documents — more than any other porn copyright trolling lawsuit by a large margin. Two…

August 20, 2015

ARDC suddenly remembers that there is “D” in its acronym, starts disciplinary proceeds against John Steele

Teleport to the latest update   Finally… Today Jerome Larkin, Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois, via Counsel Wendy J. Muchman and…

July 28, 2015

Florida man teaches the troll a lesson in persistence

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. Elbert Hubbard Copyright trolling is not a harmless phenomenon; hence it is…

July 26, 2015

Judge rules that German investigators’ evidence is insufficient to prove direct infringement

To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. William Kingdon Clifford In myriads of Bittorent cases across the country, copyright trolls…

July 13, 2015

Rightscorp claims that Telephone Consumer Protection Act violates the 1st, 5th, 14th, and 8th Amendments to the US Constitution

Five months ago I wrote about a lawsuit against an infamous copyright troll Rightscorp, filed by two Georgia residents who were harassed with repeated robocalls and text messages to their…

July 09, 2015

Arbitrator: Marc Randazza must pay $600K+ for “clear and serious breaches of fiduciary duty” against his former client

Today I was tipped about an interim arbitration award of more than $600,000 against attorney Mark John Randazza of Las Vegas. This amount was awarded to his former employer, a…

July 06, 2015

Citing previous Malibu Media’s sheer abuse of court process, New York judge denies early discovery

When a porn copyright shakedown factory Malibu Media / X-Art resumed its operations in New York after a two-year hiatus, it raised many brows because this state has proven to…