In September 2015 fresh-out-of-school attorneys Brenna Erlbaum and Brian Heit took the dollar bill bait and subscribed to a reputation-killing job of doing errands for an international copyright shakedown cartel…
The majority of Malibu Media / X-Art shakedown cases end in early stages — either because a defendant succumbs to FUD and pays the ransom, or Libscomb / Malibu drop…
Usually, when I observe an “Order on motion for ex-parte discovery” in the court filings feed, I don’t bother to check: with a 99% probability a copyright troll’s ex-parte request…
I was writing an update to one of my posts about the copyright trolling situation in California, but one particular paragraph of today’s Judge Alsup’s order swayed me into writing…
Tomorrow will be exactly six months since Guardaley | Lipscomb | X-Art started re-infesting California with a help from their local attorneys Brenna Erlbaum and Brian Heit. Over the weekend…
On Friday, on behalf of his client [John Doe] (OHSD 14-cv-00821), Jason Sweet filed an opposition to Malibu Media’s motion to dismiss the case without prejudice. Malibu’s motion was filed…
Guardaley | Lipscomb | X-Art wants every one of its cases to be as simple as this: threaten a defendant with the prospect of telling neighbors about the accusations of…
Today the defendant in Malibu Media, LLC v. John Doe subscriber assigned IP address 98.207.153.167 (CAND 15-cv-04173 — from the first batch of Malibu’s 2015 California cases) has filed his…
Nicholas Ranallo is back in the game This is terrific news. Those who started following this type of cases recently are probably curious why I’m so excited, yet those who…
Malibu Media v John Doe (ILND 13-cv-06312) is one of the most advanced and eventful cases. I wrote about it on more than one occasion. It even made headlines in…
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