December 31, 2013

Happy New Year!

It was a rollercoaster year. Exactly one year ago Prenda was at the apogee of its Chutzpah. Trying to remove Judge Wright from the case with a forged copyright assignment…

December 29, 2013

A must read hearing transcript: Lighspeed v. Smith, November 13, 2013

I’m sorry for thy much misgovernment. William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing,” 4.1.99 Best. Hearing. Ever. — Booth Sweet LLP (@BoothSweet) November 13, 2013   On Friday St. Louis Post-Dispatch…

December 07, 2013

Lightspeed v. Adam Sekora: an overlooked Prenda fiasco

While Prenda’s federal cases are closely watched and reported (thanks to immediate availability of court documents via Pacer), cases filed in state courts are difficult to follow as the majority…

November 27, 2013

Judge Murphy denies Prenda’s motions to reconsider Smiths’s attorney fees, grants Comcast’s and AT&T’s motions for fees

In Lightspeed Media Corporation v. Smith et al lawsuit (initially St. Clair county, removed to ILSD — 12-cv-00889), Judge Patrick G. Murphy has finally issued a highly anticipated order denying…

September 19, 2013

Prenda v. Godfread et al: motion for sanctions and a new powerful set of counterclaims have been filed

A lot of events are still going on the Prenda front. I almost stopped covering Prenda stories, firstly, because I think that Prenda is mostly done since this spring, and…

August 27, 2013

Popehat: Team Prenda is a classy, classy bunch

I know that the Popehat crowd is sensitive about copyright and encourage linking to their musings rather than copying wholesale (otherwise they couldn’t afford their famously posh living style resulting…

August 14, 2013

Prenda’s local attorney Daniel Ruggiero denounces his employers

Daniel Ruggiero, Prenda’s local in the Eastern states, filed dozens of cases on behalf of Prenda’s fake plaintiffs. Today he submitted a curious motion to withdraw (without substitution) as Plaintiff’s…

July 18, 2013

WANTED: a fugitive named Mark Lutz

This guy harassed tens of thousands over the phone during the past two years. Mark Colins Lutz, Prenda’s paralegal, used to call victims telling them that they had broken the…

July 07, 2013

Good news from Georgia: Court has approved discovery aimed at uncovering more Prenda’s crookery

Over the previous week Prenda continued to broadcast its last season of the soap opera. In particular, two events have been covered by the media: A batch of new filings…

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…