Judge Wright issues Prenda Law order
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Judge Wright issues Prenda Law order
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Re: Judge Wright issues Prenda Law order
#2Holy smokes. That is some serious smack down. One hopes it causes the entire judiciary to awaken to this dark scourge of extortion through the courts.
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#3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law
> Prenda Law, also known as Steele | Hansmeier PLLP and Anti-Piracy Law Group,[1] is a Chicago, Illinois-based law firm that claims it battles copyright piracy, but is also strongly identified with copyright trolling
Re: Judge Wright issues Prenda Law order
#4I have not read many court orders/rulings/etc. in my life (IANAL), but of those that I have read, this is by far the angriest and most vicious.
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#5Righteous indignation, distilled and aged to a fine vintage... and then served up in Ten Forward by a United States district judge.
So this is the other side of the looking glass... when do I meet the disappearing cat?
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#6I've enjoyed following the ongoing saga of this case. Many thanks for the detailed followups of each court session. It would be safe to say that the judge has gone with the "nuke them from orbit" option, as it's the only way to be sure these predators won't continue their dirty actions.
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#7It's the end of the road for this brand of copyright shakedown. This is an amazing good-guys-win outcome for sure, but much more than that, it signals the end of of the random copyright troll lawsuit.
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#8Footnote number 5 is so acidic I feel burned just by reading it. (Context: read paragraph #1 in the introduction first, summarizing the conspiracy's business model.) http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PendaSanct...
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#9No sympathy for Prenda but damn if this line didn't remind me of Aaron Swartz:
"Federal grand jury investigations are very slow, but represent experienced practitioners bringing almost unlimited resources to bear against their targets."
Re: Judge Wright issues Prenda Law order
#10Footnote number 5 is so acidic I feel burned just by reading it. (Context: read paragraph #1 in the introduction first, summarizing the conspiracy's business model.) http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PendaSanct...
It is not often I derive huge amounts of amusement from legal proceedings but this case (and especially this judge) has been very fun to watch in a slow-motion train-wreck kind of way.
We all knew this judgement would be good and the judge delivered.