March 12, 2013
March 11 hearing: another story by a witness
Yesterday I wrote that I would not be coming up with a story about yesterday’s eventful day. I provided a couple of links to eloquent, well thought pieces, especially by…
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March 11, 2013
March 11 hearing: witnesses’ stories
Usually I do some promotional stuff to get certain events noticed and publicized. Obviously, no need to do it today. I’ll leave it to the witnesses and more eloquent/professional folks…
March 09, 2013
EFF announces its intention to fight the subpoena, and WordPress refuses to comply with this subpoena
This is a wonderful news: yesterday Electronic Frontier Foundation announced on Twitter that it would help to fight the subpoena in the copyright troll Prenda’s defamation lawsuits designed to silence…
March 06, 2013
Deposition of Prenda’s Paul Hansemeier regarding AF Holdings: transcript
On 2/19/2013 Nicholas Ranallo and Morgan Pietz (from the defendant’s side), and Brett Gibbs (from the plaintiff’s), deposited a “witness”: Prenda’s senior (and, in my opinion, mastermind) Paul Hansmeier, asking…
March 05, 2013
Judge Otis Wright orders all Prenda’s main players to appear on March 11
We all knew that March 11 sanction hearing would make history (mind the countdown calendar on the left). After Judge Write ordered Gibbs to name Prenda’s decision makers, we hoped…
March 04, 2013
Copyright trolls Prenda Law, Paul Duffy, and John Steele commence three lawsuits v. Paul Godfread, Alan Cooper and our community
In an unexpected and rather desperate move, in the midst of growing public’s and judges’ impatience regarding Prenda’s conduct, this “law firm” has commenced three libel lawsuits designed to chill…
February 28, 2013
Judge Otis Wright to hapless troll Gibbs: “If you pledge, don’t hedge!”
After Judge Wright’s strong Order to show cause why copyright troll Brett Gibbs should not be severely sanctioned for all his troubles (Ingenuity v. Jon Doe — CACD 12-cv-08333), both…
February 20, 2013
Sinking ship “Prenda” is breaking with a loud sound. Rats are leaving the vessel
Saying that judges rarely use words “incarceration,” “fraud,” “automatic bench warrant” in an order to show cause would be an understatement. Nonetheless, Judge Otis Wright did just that in Ingenuity…
February 18, 2013
California Judge Moskowitz finds that an IP address, alone, is insufficient evidence to support a copyright infringement complaint
For some time now federal judges across our nation have expressed uneasiness with a copyright troll’s bald assertion that in a porn copyright infringement complaint an IP address equates with…
February 16, 2013
Hard Drive Productions is hit by another lawsuit: this time in Minnesota
Poor sleazeball Paul Pilcher! How many times the owner of an illegal¹ porn studio Hard Drive Productions cursed the day when he met a copyright troll John Steele (Prenda Law)…
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