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• On the post: Why Won't Creative Future's Members Comment About This Hollywood Front Group Smearing A Well Respected Law Professor?

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2019 @ 12:02pm

  Was not a bit surprised to discover Voltage Pictures in the list of the Creative Future's members. Voltage Pictures, an infamous copyright troll that steals from actual creators.

• On the post: Giant Copyright Troll, Malibu Media, Sued By Investors

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2019 @ 06:54am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: "Investors"

  "Abductive reasoning" means that I assume there was a rain overnight when I see wet pavement in the morning. I may be wrong though and it was a mobile fish tank accident. Similarly, I may be wrong thinking that there is no such thing as de-facto board of directors when I see at least three corporations registered by the same two people at the same suite of a corporate rental building.

• On the post: Giant Copyright Troll, Malibu Media, Sued By Investors

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2019 @ 06:37am

  Re: Re: "Investors"

  I first erroneously read "eight wives" instead of "eight children" - likely because I encountered a mention of Brigham Young earlier in the text, which put my thinking on the wrong track.

• On the post: Giant Copyright Troll, Malibu Media, Sued By Investors

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2019 @ 06:07pm

  Re:

  ...and Sargsyan is connected to very dangerous people. I don't want to dive into this rabbit hole, so I just leave it here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4059868-Sargsyan-declaration.html (Note that Colette is in the list of defendants) Story: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/09/10/strange-winding-fraud/

• On the post: Giant Copyright Troll, Malibu Media, Sued By Investors

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2019 @ 06:00pm

  Re: I am shocked, shocked I say!

  I tweeted earlier today:

  Anyway, it is a real treat to watch vermin eat each other. A just outcome would be Hunter and Cook losing their investments while bankrupting Fields.

• On the post: Giant Copyright Troll, Malibu Media, Sued By Investors

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2019 @ 05:58pm

  Re: Re: "Investors"

  Yes, he and the other guy, Brad Cook, control the firms.

• On the post: Giant Copyright Troll, Malibu Media, Sued By Investors

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2019 @ 04:28pm

  "Investors"

  Here is one of the investors to the scam:

  Joshua possess a passion for his work and feels like he was born to do the what he does. He has a love of people and has served in many church and civic positions giving back to the community where he resides. In light of his many successes, he feels his greatest work to date is the family he created with his beloved wife Rebecca. Together they share in the joy of raising their eight children and the adventure it brings. He enjoys traveling, backpacking, fishing, skiing, surfing, golf and getting away as often as he can with his family. His life is built upon the foundational principles of integrity, kindness, hard work, and a love of God and family.

  Well, it's not my job to reconcile "love of God and family" with investing in predatory lawsuits based on "barely legal" porn.

• On the post: Strike 3 Gets Another Judge To Remind It That IP Addresses Aren't Infringers

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 12 May, 2019 @ 07:23pm

  Re: Re:

  Did Seagal say it before or after becoming a citizen of the Russian Federation?

• On the post: Strike 3 Gets Another Judge To Remind It That IP Addresses Aren't Infringers

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 10 May, 2019 @ 05:11pm

  A small correction: Judge Ungaro is not "another one" but the original judge who ruled that IP address is not a person 5 years ago. She has been consistent since.

• On the post: Complete Overreaction: Professor Calls For Shutting Down Facebook Live, Post-Christchurch

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2019 @ 02:25pm

  In the wake of Godwin’s murder, I recommended that Facebook Live broadcasts be time-delayed

  In Soviet Union, "live" TV broadcasts were time-delayed. If it was a failed space rocket launch, the public didn't need to know it - at all. If it was a national address by a senile, sedated leader and he would fart or, worse, drop dead in the middle of that - it would be something that never happens in the Country of Well-Developed Socialism: Soviet leaders were supposed to die in hospital.

  Thank you, professor Grygiel, for your novel idea.

• On the post: RIAA Continues Its Legal War To Turn ISPs Into The Copyright Police: Sues Charter Communications

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2019 @ 01:21pm

  Does anyone here remember Evan Stone, a proto- copyright troll? This was literally his argument (and it was widely mocked back in 2011):

  They don't want their subscribers to think that they can get sued, because how many people are still gonna pay 53 bucks a month for broadband if they know they're restricted to 100% legitimate activity? That's kind of how I look at it. I mean, most people will. I think roughly 5-10% of their users would say "look, if I can't pirate movies and music, there's no way I'm going to pay fifty bucks." They don't want to lose customers, they don't want their customers sued.

• On the post: Prenda Scam Boss, Paul Hansmeier, Pleads Guilty

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2018 @ 06:59am

  Thank you, Mike.

• On the post: US Piracy Lawsuits Shoot Out Of The 2018 Gates As The Malibu Media 'Coaching Tree' Spreads Its Seeds

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2018 @ 05:37pm

  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?

  "Speedy trial." "Clean clothes."
  
  You are either woefully ignorant, disingenuous, or, likely, both.

• On the post: Now Another Judge Smacks Around A Guardaley Shell Company Acting As A Copyright Troll

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2018 @ 12:06pm

  Re:

  Something.

• On the post: Copyright Troll Gets Smacked Around By Court, As Judge Wonders If Some Of Its Experts Even Exist

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2018 @ 02:02pm

  My favorite footnote in that order is the footnote #1.

• On the post: Minnesota Prosecutor Hits Teen With Child Porn Charges For Taking Explicit Photos Of Herself

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2017 @ 07:56am

  Re:

  Did you just invent victim shaming out of victim blaming ("It was your fault!") and slut shaming ("You deserved it!"). Notwithstanding those concepts are overused today and mostly used as a catch-all "defense" against any criticism of poor judgment, there is nothing even remotely applicable here.

• On the post: Minnesota Prosecutor Hits Teen With Child Porn Charges For Taking Explicit Photos Of Herself

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2017 @ 01:02pm

  Re:

  Have you ever visited a web page that hosts unauthorized images? Of course you have. Do you know that every time you visit a page your browser creates a copy?
  
  So, a copyright infringement, however unintentional, was committed. I think you should pay the maximum damages, $30,000. Per instance.
  
  Why? I see a potential dodge for pirates: "I just clicked the link!"
  
  Since copyright infringement is the biggest of all crimes, punishing you has more societal value than your property.

• On the post: Judge Halts Copyright Troll's Lawsuit Against A Now-Deceased Elderly Man With Dementia And An IP Address

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2017 @ 01:27pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  His internet connection is used to pirate

  How do you know that?

• On the post: Alt-Right Twitter App Developers Sue Google After Gab.Ai App Is Kicked Out Of The Play Store

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2017 @ 03:00pm

  It didn't last long.

• On the post: Copyright Troll Carl Crowell Ups The Ante: Now Demands Accused Pirates Hand Over Their Hard Drives

  

  sophisticatedjanedoe ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2017 @ 11:57am

  In case you are not disgusted enough. Crowell initially tried to extort the landlord, Donna Violette, who had multiple tenants (one, who is the subject of this story, was later named as the defendant). Here is from her sworn declaration (emphasis added):

  1. In January or February 2017, I received a letter and legal documents from Mr. Crowell alleging that copyrighted films had been downloaded using my Internet, and that there would be a lawsuit against me with potential fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The letter also references possible prison time.

  and

  1. Mr. Crowell also made it clear that the computer activity through my ISP address included the viewing of pornography. Given that Mr. Crowell identified that he represented the owners of a movie, I found it troubling and coercive that Mr. Crowell began speaking to me about pornography that was no of his or his alleged clients’ business. Suddenly, I was envisoning my tenants watching pornography. Mr. Crowell’s accusations about me or my tenants viewing pornography about which he has no legal interest were an unwelcome intrusion.

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