This was a problem for many of the younger set targeted in Stones (Lucas Entertainment) and Randazzas (Liberty Media Holdings/Corbin Fisher) work in trying to terrorize the younger set who “might” (look I can create doubt to!) have been filesharing.

Stones letters and movement scared people, but many people are contributing on many boards breaking down the flaws in the case and getting people to take a breath and think about the real issue – he wants you so scared you settle guilty or not. Showing people his picture, and basically doxing him like Anon would helped people get over the fear. He was someone pretending to be something he wasn’t… competent. Stone is now facing a Judge for another case where he violated the courts directive and was shaking people down with fake subpoenas. It did not help his case when he insulted the Judge for making sure the Does had someone representing their rights.

Randazza for some reason managed to ramp up the fear factor with his we have 35K, er wait 40K, er wait a billion IP addresses. He leveraged coverage by xbiz, the advocate, and a few other places to add to the mystique that he is hiding in your closet and going to get you. His delusional denial that it could possibly have negative affects, an unnamed “therapist” told him it wouldn’t happen only helped to rally even more people to the defense of “kids” he has targeted. He is hoping that the fear of being outed to ones family, something that sometimes involves violence, would get more people to sign up for the silly amnesty he offered. Then he tried amnesty round 2 when they only got a couple of nibbles. There has been a flurry of paperwork filed, and a majority of it is NOT filesharing related. He makes suggestions of connections of P2P in them, but that seems to be an attempt to be able to enhance any award they might get.

Randazza went public and big, and this sent shockwaves. The result is I know myself and several other people are trying to calm the nerves of people considering “final” options to avoid what they think will happen. So the “therapist” obviously was incorrect. If you threaten a 17 yr old with being outed and sued, you kind of smash their world. Now you can make the argument that they deserve it, they are filesharing scum. I’d like to point out that if your precious IP is not worth more than a human life, and to think otherwise maybe you need to see a “therapist”.

Because 17yr olds grow up, move to college, get jobs and when they find a studio putting out stuff they like… they get a subscription. 17 yr olds who see their friends terrified of the studio… they avoid it like the plague.

Randazza drank the koolaid he mixed up, he wants money he thinks he can get for a small investment of IP owner reports. The downside is the negative perception of the studio as a whole is reaching its pinnacle. So you might manage to get a few bucks, ruin a few lives, and they deserved it. The fact people are dropping subscriptions and leaving the LMH/CF websites behind is a direct result. The studio even announced a whole new format, possibly because they finally noticed people were bored of the same wooden contrived scenes over and over. But it is not going to matter, people are actively and vocally against CF material now. So Randazza wins, they are going to stop sharing your content. They are going to stop caring to see your content. They are actively going to discourage people from doing business with LMH/CF. So for your pieces of silver today, your brand is going to fade away.
Good plan, well played.

If you know someone targeted in these things, do your best to help them get informed. There are articles here, ars, torrentfreak, and a few other places… all of them show the players behind the curtain and the scam they are running. It helps when you can show them the “win” rate of zero in court, that they want to “settle”(extort same thing) out of court because otherwise it will cost them money and put their whole operation under the microscope.