January 23, 2014

The Pitfalls of Porn End-User Copyright Litigation

This thoughtful op-ed first appeared in XBIZ World and XBIZ.com on 1/16/2014. I’m always happy to hear sane voices from inside the adult industry. By Q. Boyer The other morning,…

January 23, 2014

Judge Darrah grants defendants’ motion for sanctions in Prenda v. Godfread et al. “defamation” lawsuit

2/3/2014 Update is below — Memorandum and Order sanctioning Prenda and Duffy. Today a hearing in Prenda v. the Internets (ILND 13-cv-04341) was held in Chicago. Cook County Record’s reporter…

January 18, 2014

Big news: Judge rules that the copyright troll’s complaint does not meet pleading standards

Yesterday Judge Robert S. Lasnik granted a motion to dismiss the case Elf-Man v. Does 1-152 (WAWD 13-cv-00507). This motion was filed on 10/30/2013 by Michael P. Matesky on behalf…

January 16, 2014

Paul Duffy, a career stooge

I recently promised not to write about Prenda except for entertainment purposes, and I couldn’t miss this opportunity. We all know that one of the three Prenda stooges (Steele, Hansmeier…

January 15, 2014

How to avoid disbarment? Disbar yourself!

According to the Illinois Attorney’s Registration and Disciplinary Record, an infamous copyright troll John Steele is not authorized to practice law in Illinois. Voluntarily inactive: It’s quite a radical way…

January 14, 2014

How to topple the troll? Follow the money!

On Saturday I wrote about difficulties that defense encounters in trying to get documents from copyright troll Malibu Media / X-Art (M. Keith Lipscomb). My belief is that resistance to…

January 13, 2014

Defense attorney asks to sanction Malibu Media and Mary Schulz for unethical witness’ contingency interest

When simultaneously handling hundreds of lawsuits that wouldn’t sustain without concealment of essential information, it is inevitable that earlier or later a devastating slip of the tongue will occur. I…

January 11, 2014

Lipscomb & X-Art have a lot to hide. And a lot to fear

Copyright troll M. Keith Lipscomb sits on damning evidence. It was clear more than a year ago — when he settled with Jeff Fantalis to avoid devastating discovery — after…

January 07, 2014

Since May, Ventura county is not a friendly place for pornographers

Camarillo Acorn reported back in May 2013 (I was not aware of it: thanks to Stephanie Guzman for pointing out): Prompted by an influx of adult film productions in unincorporated…

January 03, 2014

Copyright trolls go mental: XArt’s lawyers demand 7.35 million dollars from a wrongly accused ISP subscriber

Roses are red, violets are blue, copyright trolls parasitize on the society because of the Kafkaesque statutory rates: $150,000 maximum for a single case of copyright infringement. While courts rarely…