US Piracy Lawsuits Shoot Out Of The 2018 Gates As The Malibu Media 'Coaching Tree' Spreads Its Seeds
from the more-to-write-about? dept
For those of you not interested in professional sports, allow me to educate you on the concept of the “coaching tree.” This concept comes from the common decisions by losing teams to hire junior coaches out from under the head coaches of successful teams, hoping to siphon off some of the genius of more successful organizations. In football, for instance, you will often hear about the “Andy Reid coaching tree” as his assistants get head coaching jobs across the league after serving underneath him.
Sadly, a much more sinister version of this appears to be occurring in the copyright trolling space, with Malibu Media serving as a launching point for legal minds joining other organizations and replicating what they’ve learned from their former employer. The result has been an explosion in copyright lawsuits for the early part of 2018, with most of them coming from the porn-trolling industry.
According to Lex Machina, there were 1,019 file-sharing cases filed in the United States last year, which is an average of 85 per month. More than half of these came from adult entertainment outfit Malibu Media (X-Art), which alone was good for 550 lawsuits.
While those are decent numbers, they could easily be shattered this year. Data collected by TorrentFreak shows that during the first month of 2018, three copyright holders filed a total of 286 lawsuits against alleged pirates. That’s three times more than the monthly average for 2017.
As the TorrentFreak post goes on to note, while Malibu Media is still leading the way in these lawsuits, a company called Strike 3 Holdings is keeping pace with them, 138 lawsuits for the former and 133 for the latter. The rest of the companies that have filed suits against BitTorrent infringers are other porn-related organizations, save for Bodyguard Productions, which sues over the pirating of the Hitman: Bodyguard film. Interestingly, it seems that this significant uptick in the lawsuit rate has been driven by former Malibu Media employees finding new professional landing spots.
While Strike 3 Holdings is a relative newcomer, their cases follow a similar pattern. There are also clear links to Malibu Media, as one of the company’s former lawyers, Emilie Kennedy, now works as in-house counsel at Strike 3.
This comes at the same time that some courts are pushing back on these trolling efforts. Between some courts describing their tactics as harassing to questioning seriously the evidence that the trolls present to the court, this is the exact wrong time for the court system to suddenly be clogged with Malibu Media-trained legal minds hell bent on trolling for settlement dollars.
The only good that might come out of this, should this lawsuit pace continue, is a public recognition that these trolling operations need to be stopped.
Filed Under: copyright, copyright trolling, emilie kennedy, lawyers
Companies: bodyguard protections, malibu media, strike 3, x-art
Comments on “US Piracy Lawsuits Shoot Out Of The 2018 Gates As The Malibu Media 'Coaching Tree' Spreads Its Seeds”
Well Guardelay can’t fake lawyers who have passed the bar to file their cases, so they nave to get someone real.
The rest of their case…. not so much.
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Bit Torrent? What kind of ding dong still uses bit torrent? Ew
Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
**You’re saying only that copyright suits are difficult to prosecute, which is true, and using that to then implicitly lie that ALL cases are totally groundless. It’s Techdirt Tactic #3.
IN FACT a great deal of infringement is taking place every day. As in PETABYTES. These lawyered-up firms take a stragety that I don’t advise, but are fully justified.
And on other hand: anyone accused has only to show up in court wearing clean clothes and not acting like a foul-mouthed arrogant Geigner, demand a speedy trial by jury, and at trial state that they’re innocent of the charge. Plaintiff in civil case actually has higher hurdle than 50.01% with a jury of your peers.
Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
lol you have no idea how anything works
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Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Oh, you’ve given up on your zombie conspiracy already? How dull.
Re: Re: Re:2 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Re: Re: Re:3 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
You are the king off off topic bullshit.
Re: Re: Re:4 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Re: Re: Re:5 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
You literally jump into threads to whine about imaginary zombies and other hilariously stupid conspiracies.
Re: Re: Re:6 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Re: Re: Re:7 Okay, so…
…what the hell does this have to do with anything? I mean, shit, I had a gap of several years where I didn’t comment using my name/email combo (long before I attached it to an account), and I don’t see you calling me a zombie. Is it because I have other ways to verify my identity? (I’m rather easy to find on Twitter.) Or is it because you literally have no arguments for anything other than namecalling and accusations of “zombie-ism” towards anyone who dares to show an ounce of intellect?
(And by the by, I would ask that this comment—mine, not the crazed anon’s above—be flagged because it is off-topic bullshit. I mean, feel free to flag theirs, too, but flag mine alongside it.)
Re: Re: Re:8 Okay, so…
It’s fucking weird, right? Dude just keeps saying this shit, without ever once explaining what the fuck his point is supposed to be, like we’re all just supposed to know.
Re: Re: Re:9 Okay, so…
Well the other voices in his head always know what he’s trying to talk about, so he assumes that the voices on the internet must be the same.
Re: Re: Re:7 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
I’ve had gaps several years between posts on a site. Something on the shows up in a Google search, so I read the article and comment on it. There’s nothing odd about it.
What’s odd is how your hatred and obsession with Techdirt apparently extends to building dossiers on those who post here.
Whining about me being Canadian is one thing. I mention it from time to time. But add that to your tracking how many posts everyone’s made, and "Creepy" stars to show up on that "Dishonest/Delusional/Ignorant" Venn diagram with you in the middle.
Are you planning to sell your work to the next reputation management consultant, lawyer, "inventor" or top lobbyist who objects to being mentioned here?
Re: Re: Re:8 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
I started commenting on this site close to twenty years ago. I began as an Anonymous Coward. Then, several year later I decided to distinguish myself using Anonymous Anonymous Coward. Then several years later I joined (I paid some monthly money and became an ‘insider’) and then my comments were cataloged.
I thought that my earlier comments might be incorporated into my cataloged comments, but that has not happened, for whatever reasons. I am not terribly concerned with that. But your position that some commenters that do not have all their comments logged in their profiles does not mean that they have not commented. It might mean that they commented and didn’t bother to log in. It might mean that they didn’t want to log in because they were replying to some bullshit that you posted and did not want to be denigrated by showing that they commented on some bullshit that you posted.
That I am commenting on your dispersion of other people for not logging all of their comments does not mean that I give you any credence for any of your comments (I generally and purposefully do not comment on your comments because I do actually believe that feeding trolls is harmful to the site, and proactively discourage such) and therefore make a habit of flagging your comments and moving on, without regard to anything you might say.
The pity of the above is that once in a great while you might have something useful to say, but you go about it in such a way that nobody actually listens.
If you think, for even one second, that I would respond to any response that you might have to this post, you are not thinking. And seemingly, never have.
Re: Re: Re:8 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
“What’s odd is how your hatred and obsession with Techdirt apparently extends to building dossiers on those who post here.”
He has to attack the site for any reason, no matter what. You can usually tell when an article’s hit home because instead of flailing around trying to justify whatever bad behaviour is described, he starts whining about how the site operates or tries to distract with irrelevant links.
It’s a sad, strange way to spend time, but rather here than out on the streets.
Re: Re: Re:5 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
I see you didn’t deny it.
Re: Re: Re:6 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Re: Re: Re:7 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Too late, you had one minute.
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You mean the “secret voting system” that you “took video of” showing all the hoops you had to jump through to keep your comments from getting blocked that you swore you were going to post on youtube and never did?
I assume by zombies you mean people with actual accounts such as PaulT, Stephen T. Stone and such. Oh look, there they are in the comments.
As far as us “lol” ACs with one-liners go, first, our one-liners are leagues better than yours. Yours basically amount to calling us various names or basic attacks on our intelligence. Second, despite us only having “one-liners” in your opinion, you still haven’t been able to best us in terms of straight up facts and logic.
So yeah, what was that about winning again? Kind of looks like you’re losing to me laughing boy.
Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
A much better question is how many are settled because it is cheaper than hiring a lawyer and proving innocence in court.
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The AC above is right. You have no idea how anything works.
You can fight the accusation in court and win, but you’ll still be out thousands of dollars in legal fees.
More likely though they’ll drop the case before it gets to court. Your legal fees will be lower, but you’ll still be out thousands of dollars.
The point is that it’s cheaper to settle despite being innocent. THAT’S HOW THIS RACKET WORKS.
Re: Re: Re:2 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
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“You load solution up with hiring a lawyer. I state go demand a speedy trial by jury.”
Are those wash instructions for a Prenda Law money laundering scheme?
Re: Re: Re:4 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Re: Re: Re:5 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Yes, one. Do you remember literally begging the nice folks here to not hide your insane drivel?
Re: Re: Re:6 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Re: Re: Re:3 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
You can’t just wander into a court and “demand” things.
Re: Re: Re:4 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Re: Re: Re:5 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Oh, please, do tell us.
Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
“Or, as likely at Techdirt where foriegners outnumber Americans”
Funny thing blue, dem foruegners know ‘merkin law better than you do.
Re: Re: Re:2 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
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“Why won’t anyone explain anything to me!?” yells the person incapable of learning.
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In most jurisdiction, and civil suites, you hire your own lawyer, and in most if you win you are likely to get your costs back, but in the US that is very rare. The trolls rely on this and pitch their demands below what it would cost to defend a case to encourage settlement rather than going to trial.
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Whether the charges have merit do not typically matter to the people pushing for these lawsuits. They want a quick buck, not justice for a violated copyright. The whole reason they can make that quick buck is because people will settle, regardless of their guilt or innocence, to avoid paying in both time and money to fight an expensive lawsuit.
Re: Re: Re:3 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
lol, “charges”.
Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
lol BEELLIONS (from Oracle v Google)
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Tactic #3? What are the first two, if I might ask? And how many are there total? And, assuming they’re true, are they copyrighted? Does TechDirt have standing to sue you for leaking trade secrets? DID YOU DO A RICO?!
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Yes, “power.” We’ll go with that. Well, here’s a proper “on-topic” comment responding to the part that was not a jest:
Yes.
Re: Re: Re:2 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Re: Re: Re:3 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Yes, exactly that.
Re: Re: Re:4 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Re: Re: Re:3 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
When you start off with insults, name-calling, claims without citation and general ranting nobody takes you seriously. That you don’t seem to realize what a joke you’ve become here is half the joke.
If you want people to engage in meaningful debate and conversation, try starting off in a civil tone and with clear speech not muddied up with unnecessary punctuation and misplaced caps. Then add a dash of reality and you’re set. Until then, you’re nothing but noise.
Re: Re: Re:4 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Re: Re: Re:5 Hey, you asked.
Motherfucker? Yes. We have no proof that you have ever fucked anyone, let alone anyone’s mother.
Ignorant? Well…
Re: Re: Re:6 Hey, you asked.
Re: Re: Re:5 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
I’d flag any comment with that kind of name calling.
Re: Re: Re:6 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Re: Re: Re:7 Tip for the future: When providing 'evidence', try to avoid something that makes you look WORSE
… 2011. Your example is something from 2011, one that was explained as a joke/quotation, from a comment section where anyone who reads it can see that you’ve been acting like a loon for years.
There are fans, regular visitors, and then there are obsessive hypocritical stalkers. As your actions continue to demonstrate, you are firmly in the third category blue.
Re: Re: Re:8 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
There’s so much new vile off-topic ad hom that I can’t keep up with it, let alone reference. Such as yours here.
You’re just going to have to grow up and ignore me, then. I’ve every intention of commenting so long as the TOR browser works.
You are in the by far largest 4th category, irrelevant, off-topic ad hominem.
Re: Re: Re:9 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
“There’s so much new vile off-topic ad hom that I can’t keep up with it, let alone reference.”
Yet, you only offer a thread from 7 years ago as proof, and a comment that’s perfectly understandable directed at someone as relentlessly ignorant and annoying as you.
You’d have thought that by now you’d have learned that if you want to stop being called an ignorant mf, you need to stop acting like one. Failing to learn the basics of human interaction in the space of 7 years really isn’t helping your side of the argument.
Re: Re: Re:7 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
God, I love that my merely quoting Barack Obama as a non-sequitur SEVEN YEARS AGO has stuck with you so much that you’re still misundertandingly linking to it as evidence of name-calling against you.
To quote an idiot, “shows what kind of power I have” over you, no?
Re: Re: Re:5 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Also, if the site is such a joke, why do you spend so much time here? Is it that important to sway everyone here to agree with you or do you just enjoy trolling?
Re: Re: Re:6 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Re: Re: Re:7 Wait.
…you have standards?
Re: Re: Re:8 Wait.
Re: Re: Re:7 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Flagged as trolling.
I’m here because I like [most of] the articles, even those I disagree with. And because most of the commenters here can engage in intelligent debate without resorting to childish behavior.
Now, care to answer my question? Or is it easier to veer off-topic and throw insults and accusations?
Re: Re: Re:8 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
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You first.
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Re: Re: Re:9 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
I was genuinely interested in your answer. It was no attack. When called to the mat you refuse to converse and then accuse me of being off-topic. True as it may be why did you wait until now to use that as a defense?
I guess I can continue to write off anything you post as pointless. Just flag and move on since you’re not interested in a real discussion. It’s no wonder you abandoned your username; There’s an off chance someone will read what you post if it’s not preceded by a warning.
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That should tell you just how tired everyone else is of your bullshit.
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Re: Re: Re:13 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Considering how much time you spend here, wouldn’t that make you irrelevant as well?
Re: Re: Re:14 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Nah, he means that a cesspit is just a hole in the ground unless you fill it with excrement. That’s where he comes in, to provide it. It just hasn’t occurred to him that the rest of us were happy with the empty hole.
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One comment a topic. Oh that’s fucking rich coming from you. How many comments on this thread alone? Hell the other day I’m pretty sure you broke a hundred one one thread alone.
Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
A settlement does not establish the merit of the claim. In fact, settlement agreements very often explicitly include a disclaimer of it not being an admission of guilt. But, I would love to see you refuse settlement and instead appear in front of a jury of your peers, maybe with your family in tow, to say “I didn’t do it” when these companies read out that your IP address was seen downloading “Choirboys Crying for Cum”, “Ass Blasted Midgets 4”, “RAW Thugs Creampied by White Guys #17” among others. I am sure your peers will agree that their printouts and technical jargon are nothing stacked against your adamant “wasn’t me.”
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If your choices are:
A) Defend (even successfully) at a cost of $40k+
B) Settle for $1k and let them think they won
Which do you choose? If you chose A then you’re likely in the 1%.
Re: Re: Re:2 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Look, I don’t argue with that!
LAWYERS have “the system” monopolized. Long ago learned: “No one wins a law suit but the lawyers.”
Now, STOP arguing that caving is a good idea. That’s YOUR bias from believing that charges are true and conviction is certain.
People: Americans have stood up to “company towns” facing Pinkerton goons with machine guns. Stop being such chickens, or you will be plucked.
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Nobody is arguing that caving to these bastards is “a good idea”. But when given a choice between paying thousands of dollars and an untold amount of time to fight a lawsuit that you could still lose or paying a much smaller fee to make the lawsuit go away, the “better” choice for a lot of people is obviously the latter.
Re: Re: Re:3 Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
“Look, I don’t argue with that!”
“Now, STOP arguing that caving is a good idea”
You don’t argue that the system is gamed in a way that makes caving a very good idea for anybody but the very rich, but you want to stop saying that caving is a good idea?
Which is it, genius?
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That anon’s point, if you would stop and read for longer than it takes for you to copy-paste their words into the comment box, is that guilt typically does not matter in civil cases such as these. Nobody without the money to fight a protracted legal battle wants to deal with an expensive-as-hell lawsuit if they can help it. These copyright lawsuit outfits know that if they threaten someone who can barely make ends meet with a lawsuit, that person is more likely to pay whatever they must to make that lawsuit go away—even if they are innocent—because they cannot afford to spend either the time or the money that fighting a lawsuit would require.
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That would still require getting in touch with actual lawyers who will more than likely demand actual money to actually fight the lawsuit. Whether you like it or not, “caving” would be the “better” option for lots of people who lack the time and money to fight back. It isn’t right, and it isn’t fair, but it is what it is—and none of your “PEOPLE SHOULD FIGHT BACK, GRR LAWYERS DIE” rhetoric will change reality.
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And if the person did not download the infringing file, what then? Fighting the case to prove their innocence will still cost a lot of time and money that they might not have to spend. Copyright trolls do not care if someone is legitimately guilty of copyright infringement; they only care about making a quick buck from people who are too afraid of what a full-bore lawsuit will do to their lives.
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You intentionally ignore my point: Most people will not have the resources to fight, so they will give in to the settlement demand because it is easier to just pay someone a couple thousand dollars and be done with the situation than pay a lot more than that for the chance—the chance!—to potentially prevail in a lawsuit that will take a lot of time to ultimately finish.
I am not saying it is right or fair or “good”. I am saying that it is what it is. Your “FIGHT BACK GRR FUCK LAWYERS” rhetoric will not change that reality, nor can you continue to ignore it when copyright trolls actively count on it to continue their operations.
No, I said that copyright trolls do not care whether someone is guilty of an act of infringement. If someone connected to my router without my knowledge and downloaded “Backdoor Sluts 9” without my knowledge and the copyright troll who baited that person into downloading that particular porno comes after me because my IP was the one that matched the download logs, do you really think that troll is going to give a single god’s damn about whether I was the one who downloaded the file? Fuck no! I am the easy target, and they would count on me pissing my pants upon seeing the threat of a lawsuit to force me into a settlement. Copyright trolls are called such because they do not give a fuck whether their targets actually committed the infringement of which they stand accused—they just care if they can get a settlement and avoid a lawsuit that even they probably do not want to bring into court.
I understand piracy. That is all you need to know.
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“Speedy trial.” “Clean clothes.”
You are either woefully ignorant, disingenuous, or, likely, both.
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Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
“Will your Exaltedness now reveal even a hint of The Truth?”
The entire thread is people explaining to you how reality works. The fact that you’re too stubborn and ignorant to take it in is nobody;’s fault but your own.
Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
You say that like none of this can be proven by public record. Here’s a hint: the number of Malibu Media cases that have actually gone to trial, where both sides have functioning lawyers to debate the merits of the case, are staggeringly few in comparison to the attempts made by Malibu Media to file. The ratio is embarrassingly low. So if the number of cases going to trial is your yardstick for determining the legitimacy of the plaintiff, you are going to be sorely disappointed.
As for settlements, those generally won’t be tracked by the court, especially if they are settled before the case ever enters a courtroom. Which means that from a legal perspective, the numbers are pointless, more so since absolutely no weight is given to whether the cases are "merited" or otherwise.
By the way, Malibu Media’s antics have gotten them noticed by American judges, who have started to frown upon their attempts to sue multiple Does at once, and the same judges are starting to suspect this "anti-piracy" effort is little more than another moneymaking scheme. So, nice going having more of your copyright heroes expose more of their plotting.
I expect you’ll soon be whining and bitching why we’re talking about Malibu Media, the same way you pissed and moaned why Techdirt was covering the news of John Steele’s downfall. Sucks to be you, blue boy!
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I am looking forward to the time when one IP trolling asshole sues another IP trolling asshole for copyright infringement over the methodology (written statements) of their claims. I know it isn’t legal, as there is not actually a copyright claim in any court filing, but that doesn’t preclude any member of Prenda from suing all of them, simply because there is no such thing as bad publicity.
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I’m waiting for the time when they teach it as a seminar class and put teasers for it on YouTube.
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Related story … there was a business model suit where some tax guy claimed certain tax return strategies were his creations and where therefore subject to copyright protection … or was it patent – doesn’t matter as both are ridiculous.
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I am looking forward to the time when one IP trolling asshole sues another IP trolling asshole for copyright infringement over the methodology (written statements) of their claims. I know it isn’t legal, as there is not actually a copyright claim in any court filing, but that doesn’t preclude any member of Prenda from suing all of them, simply because there is no such thing as bad publicity.