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Porn Studio Asks Judge to Ban Talk About "Copyleft" Blogs at Trial

posted by takyon on Tuesday July 28 2015, @07:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the impartial-jury dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 2, Redundant) by aristarchus on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:25AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:25AM (#214755) Journal

    Rarely do we have such insightful commentary here on SoylentNews in regards to the naughty bits. Just saying.

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  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by c0lo on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:42AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 28 2015, @08:42AM (#214762) Journal

    Rarely do we have such insightful commentary here on SoylentNews in regards to the naughty bits.

    What the hell is "naughty bits"? What?!... Ah, I seem to remember something; eh, kido, so looong ago...

    (is it clear now why?)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @09:39AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @09:39AM (#214776)

      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

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @12:11PM (#214806)

      Naughty bits are the tingly parts found in your no-no square.

      • (Score: 2) by davester666 on Wednesday July 29 2015, @08:22AM

        by davester666 (155) on Wednesday July 29 2015, @08:22AM (#215332)

        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

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:03PM (#214868)

      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. :-)