2/22/2013 Update: this fraud is seemingly grounded shortly after it took off (scroll to the bottom of the post). Over the last couple of days, I started receiving disturbing reports…
Copyright troll of the week Recently I wrote about a copyright infringement monetization outfit “Copyright Defenders” that uses unlicensed “experts” to harvest IP addresses from bittorent trackers and solicits help…
The lucrative business of copyright trolling has its limitations. One of the main limitations is lawyer manpower. It is relatively easy to harvest IP addresses from Bittorent swarms: poorly written…
“At the Simmons Law Firm we treat our intellectual property clients as partners.” (From the Simmons Law Firm website) One of the worst copyright trolling cases that I have…
Copyright troll of the week Paul Lesko Simmons Browder Gianaris Angelides & Barnerd LLC One Court Street Alton Illinois 62002 Tel. (618) 259-2222 Fax. (618) 259-2251 plesko@simmonsfirm.com Attorney for Plaintiff…
Copyright troll of the week There are well known big name villains in the speculative invoicing (a.k.a. copyright trolling) arena: Steele/Prenda, Ira Siegel, Thomas Dunlap/DGW, and so on. There are…
It’s all started with a comment on one of this blog’s articles (the original spelling has been preserved): It really really stinks but people are getting sued all over the…
I want to bring to your attention a rather unusual copyright troll lawsuit that is not covered by press yet, “Baseprotect UG, Ltd. v. John Does 1-X”, 2:11-cv-03621-CCC-JAD, filed in…
