December 29, 2016

Prenda indictment – with links

Undeniably, the criminal indictment of copyright trolls John Steele and Paul Hansmeier was the main positive event of 2016 for thousands of Prenda’s (as well as other trolls’) victims. Last…

December 16, 2016

Steele and Hansmeier have been finally indicted on fraud, money laundering charges

Teleport to the latest update   Sweet holiday gift. The masterminds of a porn extortion outfit Prenda — John Steele and Paul Hansmeier — are finally indicted (USA v. Hansmeier…

November 26, 2014

Notes from the 11/20/2014 AF Holdings, LLC v. Patel hearing

The AF Holdings v Patel (GAND 12-cv-00262) Show Cause Hearing, which was abruptly interrupted by a snowstorm on the 1/28/2014 afternoon, was finally continued and concluded almost ten months later,…

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…

August 08, 2013

Prenda parties ordered to pay more than $63K to Doe Defendants in Minnesota

Remember Guava LLC v. Merkel? A collusive Prenda’s lawsuit filed in Hennepin County court in Minneapolis? I thought that this lawsuit was over, and I was gladly surprised to learn…

June 17, 2013

Is Prenda winding down? Not until its principals are in jail

In a recent appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Paul Duffy wrote: Prenda Law is currently winding down its operations and is in the process…

May 31, 2013

Defendant in Prenda’s case was served by a convicted drug dealer

Businessweek’s Prenda story Yesterday Bloomberg Businessweek published probably the most thorough (as of today) article about Prenda: Prenda Law, the Porn Copyright Trolls by Clair Suddath. If you never heard…

May 12, 2013

Ethically handicapped Prenda’s “boss” Paul Duffy signs a new batch of extortion letters

Many remember that less than 3 years ago an infamous scumbag Steve “Lightspeed” Jones, a pornographer who specializes in “barely legal” genre (i.e. he recruits and films very young girls),…

May 03, 2013

Sunlust v. Nguyen: from comedy to absurdist play

Prenda’s Sunlust Pictures LLC, v. Nguyen, (12-cv-01685) has started as a comedy, continued as a farce, and now enters the Theatre of the Absurd domain. Last time I wrote about…

April 23, 2013

LW Systems v. Hubbard: from Adam Urbanczyk’s signed agreed order to the new breed of demand letters

Adam Urbanczyk and his involvement in a “Titanic of shakedown cases” As one defense attorney nicely put it, while we have been covering copyright trolling cases involving a couple of…