The DieTrollDie blog turned one-years old today. The mystery man who keeps so many people so well informed of how best to deal with these frivolous mass bittorent cases has thanked many people for making the last year so much fun. If you haven’t been to the site, it’s a must read for anyone dealing… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Court’s Patience With Bittorrent Litigation Wearing Thin
Posted in Contingent Fee, I.P. Address Suits, Interesting Cases, Porn IndustryAs both FightCopyrightTrolls and DieTrollDie have recently reported, the Courts are growing increasingly impatient with plaintiffs in mass bittorrent litigation. Orders severing the defendants are becoming commonplace, and the plaintiffs are finding those cases substantially less lucrative. First, Judge Hill is reported to have killed many of the porn-related bittorrent suits down in Louisiana. Effectively,… Continue Reading
Why Contingent Fee Attorneys Are Right For Your Copyright Case
Posted in Contingent Fee, Firm CasesThe WHITAKER LAW GROUP frequently accepts copyright infringement cases on a contingent fee basis. Here are a few good reasons why using contingent fee lawyers, like us, may be right for your copyright infringement case:
“Does” Start To Strike Back In Bittorrent Litigation
Posted in Doe Counter-Suits, Interesting CasesOver at FightCopyrightTrolls, they put together a great listing of cases where the hunted has become the hunter. ”John Does” as they are called frequently crumble and settle under the pressure of the plaintiffs in mass bittorrent cases. Sometimes the Does just ignore the cases, but that too has its dangers. Rarely, but more and… Continue Reading
Viacom Sued Over Photo of Demi Moore
Posted in DMCA Safe Harbor, Interesting Cases, Online piracyNational Photo Group is a company that licenses photographs of celebrities. They claim to own the copyrights on a multitude of photographs of celebrities. Licensing those photographs to online and print publications is the ‘bread and butter of its business.’ Viacom is the parent company of VH1, which as we all know is a television channel… Continue Reading
Google Now Using DMCA Takedown Notices To Affect Search Ranking
Posted in DMCA Safe Harbor, Online piracyGoogle recently announced that it will begin using the number of DMCA takedown notices that a site receives. ”Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site,” said Amit Singhal, Google SVP of engineering. “Sites with high… Continue Reading
Another Game Company Alleges Copyright Infringement
Posted in Interesting Cases, Software ProtectionEA Games has sued Zynga for copyright infringement over Zynga’s The Ville. EA alleges that Zynga’s game is a near-identical copy of EA’s The Sims Social. This is the latest in a recent spate of lawsuits by game makers, such as Atari and SpryFoxx, against other game makers for copying the “look and feel” of their… Continue Reading
Anatomy of a Winning Motion to Quash
Posted in Doe Counter-Suits, Porn IndustryEmphasis on the word “winning.” There are quite a few sites out there that offer you a sample motion to quash, but what good is it if it doesn’t win. In other words, why file anything if it doesn’t have a good chance at winning. I mentioned before that I’ve started a survey of copyright… Continue Reading
Prenda Law Lawyer Gets Hammered
Posted in I.P. Address Suits, Interesting CasesIt seems like these copyright plaintiff’s lawyers for the porn industry just can’t do anything right. Yesterday I blogged about a Federal Judge who ordered a copyright plaintiff’s lawyer to show cause why he shouldn’t be sanctioned for completely ignoring the Judge’s order. Today, another judge drops the hammer on a different lawyer, Joseph Perea. Looks… Continue Reading
Judge Brown Drops The Hammer On Kotzker Law Group
Posted in I.P. Address Suits, Interesting CasesWow! There are a pair of bittorrent suits pending over in New York. Counsel for Malibu Media and Patrick Collins had asked for early discovery so they could, one assumes, try to extort the traditional settlement out of the defendants. In a unique twist, Judge Brown ordered that the identities of the Does be revealed… Continue Reading
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