Less than a month after his partner Paul Hansmeier was sentenced to 14 years in prison, the loudest (and therefore the most hated) porn copyright troll John Lawrence Steele learned…
In summary, Hansmeier was greedy, arrogant, devious, mendacious, and consistently positioned other people to be damaged by his conduct, even as he enjoyed the proceeds of the scheme he orchestrated….
Former attorney Paul Nicoletti Today, after deliberating for about 1.5 hours, a Detroit jury found a former porn copyright troll Paul Nicoletti (X-Art / Malibu Media) guilty on four counts…
Yesterday U.S. Attorney’s Office (District of Minnesota) issued the following statement: Information For Victims Of USA v. Hansmeier, Et Al. Copyright Fraud Scheme In the case of United States v….
When targeting internet users en masse, bittorent copyright trolls don’t bother to diligently investigate who they are suing. The trolls rely solely on an IP address for which unlicensed German…
The recent explosion of copyright trolling lawsuits (particularly filed by a new aggressive porn troll Strike 3 Holdings¹) was possible in part because courts routinely rubberstamp ex-parte discovery requests. It…
Teleport to the latest update The document filed yesterday in two bittorent copyright cases – Strike 3 Holdings LCC v John Doe (WAWD 17-cv-01731) and Venice PI LLC v…
Teleport to the latest update The ink was barely dry on a recent Judge Zilly’s devastating order when another federal judge, Michael Simon, delivered a serious blow to the…
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the…
Today Magistrate Judge Stacy F. Beckerman recommended to grant bittorent copyright troll Carl Crowell’s motion to voluntary dismiss the case without prejudice, but with a condition: the plaintiff must pay…
