May 04, 2012

Adult Filmmakers get Legal Smackdown!

Since we broke the news about a game-changing ruling by a New York judge Gary R. Brown, a dozen or so news outlets wrote about this fantastic news, and I’m…

May 02, 2012

New York judge blasts trolls’ practices, recommends banning mass bittorent lawsuits in the district

By Raul and SJD Yesterday Magistrate Judge Gary R. Brown submitted an Order & Report & Recommendation (ORR) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New…

May 01, 2012

fightcopyrighttrolls.com turns one

  Yes, it has been one year and half a million page views since I fired my humble flashlight… Not all the wishes have been fulfilled: mass bittorent lawsuits flourish,…

April 01, 2012

A trolling lawsuit ends with style

Thanks to an anonymous commenter who pointed me to this exciting event. K-Beech, Inc. v. Does 1-31 mass bittorent case (mdd 8:12-cv-00088) was filed by a copyright troll Jon A….

September 19, 2011

Nicholas Ranallo offers inexpensive legal help to p2p defendants

If you read TorrentFreak regularly, you probably did not miss a recent discussion about accountability of open WiFi owners whose internet accounts were used for file sharing by someone else…

September 05, 2011

Is there honor among trolls?

I was reading various mass file-sharing lawsuit complaints recently and found out that they are heavily copied from each other. I was daydreaming how wonderful it could be if copyright…

September 02, 2011

Case “IO Group v. Does 1-50 Inclusive” has been voluntarily dismissed

One of few remaining IO Group v. Does cases was voluntarily dismissed this week. Congratulations to those victims who did not succumb to threats. This case was dismissed without prejudice,…

September 02, 2011

Why you shouldn’t heed an advice just because it was given by a licensed attorney

You can come up with a short answer to this question yourself after reading this wonderful quote from the movie The King’s Speech: Lionel Logue: [as George “Berty” is lighting…

September 01, 2011

Ira Siegel replies to judge’s order, helps me to spread the word

In my previous post I wrote about the surprising order from judge Zimmerman to disclose the total amount collected via settlements. Finally the reply was filed. Although it does not…

August 25, 2011

Troll Ira Siegel was ordered to disclose how much money he extorted from Does

Ira M. Siegel Ira Siegel is one of the most sinister and cynical figures on the copyright trolling arena. He participates in setting up shameless honeypot schemes to profit from…