May 04, 2013

Prenda v. the rest of the world

If you have been following Theatre of Absurd “Prenda” for a while, you’ll smile, chuckle, giggle, and laugh out loud more than once. Enjoy.    

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…

April 20, 2013

Is Prenda trying to simulate insanity to avoid prosecution?

When it rains, it pours You’ll find the answer to the title question after reading the second of the two documents featured below. To get up to speed, read Ken…

April 12, 2013

Graham Syfert withdraws his call for sanctions against Gibbs and Wasinger; Gibbs claims that Steele and Hansmeier have been driving litigation in Florida

Thanks to Judge Wright’s resolution to get to the bottom of Prenda-related controversies, the poo-throwing among the Prenda gang members has recently escalated dramatically. In this light, yesterday’s event is…

April 08, 2013

Undefined beneficiary trust: what is it?

I’ve been thinking about one of the charades in Hansmeier’s deposition, and although I know little about the corporate law (especially international), I risked to do some research and share…

April 08, 2013

Transcript of the March 11 hearing is now available

The transcript of the pivotal hearing in Ingenuity13 LLC v. John Doe (CACD 12-cv-08333) is now available as an exhibit to Blair Chintella’s motion for sanctions, which deserves a separate…

April 06, 2013

Alexandra Capachietti of Burson and Levinson LLP is NOT a porno troll

While concentrating on porn mega-trolls like Prenda or Keith Lipscomb/Malibu Media, we neglect other opportunists — those who pursue easy cash by shaking down alleged file-sharers of low budget non-porno…

April 02, 2013

Prenda trolls appear in Judge Wright’s courtroom only to plead the Fifth. Furious judge ends the hearing after 12 minutes

If the last Prenda hearing was a tornado, this one was an earthquake. Abrupt, powerful, and leaving unclear casualties. Adam Steinbaugh   Basically, the title says it all. I was…

March 21, 2013

Answers are filed in the Prenda’s defamation lawsuits

Today defense attorneys Jason Sweet and Erin Russell filed answers in two remaining Prenda’s defamation lawsuits: Paul Duffy v. Alan Cooper, Paul Godfread and the Internets, ILND 13-cv-01569 (Answer). Prenda…