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Prenda Law is gone, and today it's a legit porno company, Malibu Media, that files more copyright lawsuits than anyone else. Malibu sues thousands of people for downloading the company's content via BitTorrent, then asks for settlements reportedly in the several-thousand-dollar range.
The antics of Malibu and other "copyright trolls" are often documented on two pseudonymous troll-fighting blogs, FightCopyrightTrolls and DieTrollDie.
Now that Malibu has a case where a defendant is insisting on his right to have his case heard by a jury, it really doesn't want those blogs coming up at trial. Malibu's attorney Keith Lipscomb has asked (PDF) the judge in the case to ban "inappropriate references to blogs" during the copyright infringement trial, seeking $150,000 in damages from Indiana resident Michael Harrison.
"The Court should preclude Defendant from referring to copyleft blogs for any purpose, including specifically references to fightcopyrightrolls.com and dietrolldie.com," writes Lipscomb in the motion, filed earlier this week. "The blogs target Plaintiff and its counsel with vitriolic hate speech and contain comments that are biased, slanderous, and prejudicial, and should not be referred to at trial for any purpose."
In a footnote, Lipscomb explains "copyleft" for the judge, writing: "Copyleft is the polite way of describing an anti-copyright ideology. 'Freetards' is the degrading equivalent of 'copyright trolls' when used in association with copyright producers."
A gray-market company seeks the cover of law. Any 'Freetards' care to comment?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:23AM
OK, let me just say this: porn is not a legitimate product. At all. It is only a handicap for the sexually handicapped. And as that it is a medical prothesis, it ought to be free, and covered by Medicare. Or else it is just a bunch of tittilation and ought to be mercilessly copied and posted all over the internet, just to embarrass Christians and Republicans and AI Ex Machina types. Am I clear? You all are either sexually dysfunctional, or even worse attempting to make money off others sexually dysfunction. So all I could say, is fuck you all, but I can't, since some of you would get off on it, and others would try to charge money for it.
(Score: 2, Redundant) by aristarchus on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:25AM
Rarely do we have such insightful commentary here on SoylentNews in regards to the naughty bits. Just saying.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by c0lo on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:42AM
What the hell is "naughty bits"? What?!... Ah, I seem to remember something; eh, kido, so looong ago...
(is it clear now why?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @09:39AM
Remember, something, long ago? Missing the Brit slang, eh, amigo? Viva la Libre Porno!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @12:11PM
Naughty bits are the tingly parts found in your no-no square.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Wednesday July 29 2015, @08:22AM
There's something wrong if your area is "square".
See a doctor. Or become a porn actor.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:03PM
Isn't it obvious? Naught is an alternative name for zero. Therefore a naughty bit is a zero bit. For example, ASCII sex has eleven naughty bits. :-)
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:48AM
Anyway, are you saying that I can just nick the Rubens paintings from the Rijksmuseum, as to someone like me those BBWs are good old-fashined wrist-exercise, and therefore covered by my social security contributions?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:55PM
Would it be prescription-only? Would those with severe sexual problems also get hooker prescriptions?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:55PM
I'm as much for copyright reform as the next guy but I don't recall the "except if they are naked" provision in the Copyright Act.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:44PM
Copyright was made to be ignored.
Besides, you don't think suing thousands of people for thousands of dollars each and demanding settlements when they have almost no actual evidence is scummy behavior?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:52PM
Of course porn is a legitimate product. Don't blame others because YOU paid for it, suckah.