Anti-download biz sued for 'abusive' robo-call demands for money

Re. fire

Nah, nuke & pave, nuke & pave.

This happened in the UK as well a while back except it was £600 "fines" and a few stupid people actually did pay.

Sounds like a very effective way to make money, just buy up the copyright for a bunch of old magazines etc then wait until someone uses content from them. Profit!!!!

This is the ethical equivalent of patent trolling.

I am a fan of punitive damages where warranted and I can think of few better cases than right here.

What Rightscorp is doing is breaking the law and wantonly, egregiously, acting in bad faith for the sake of profit.

They are playing a numbers game - reasoning that by behaving in this way they will earn more than they will have to pay to run and manage the system and risk losing through legal action.

This is precisely what punitive damages are supposed to address - companies that break the law deliberately because they see a profit in it. The damages are there to tip the scales by imposing large fines that make it much less favourable to engage in whatever behaviour is being assessed and therefore provide an effective deterrent to repeat offenses or to other companies engaging in or looking to engage in the same actions.

Just one component - the robocaller - is worthy in my opinion. They know - MUST KNOW - that it is wrong but it reduces their costs significantly. They - and anyone else considering such a tactic - must be told, unequivocally, that this behaviour is not a way to easy profits. Crime doesn't pay, etc...

It occurs to me that this is basically Extortion Racketeering where the threat is the stress, drain & possible financial ruin instead of good old fashioned violence. They shouldn't be sued, they should be investigated by the police and possibly put in bracelets.

Anyone know what the principals of ACS are doing now? Are they acting as advisors to this shower of shit?

An Answer?

Clearly these people creatures set out to terrorise their victims, hence should be dealt with under all the new terrorism laws that the nice Mrs May, and her leftpondian conterparts are shovelling through.

win-win?

surprise

I'm surprised given the amount of guns, that they haven't tried to extort the wrong sort of person with a gun.

Oh the irony

They haz it.

Reminds me of back in the day when I got a letter, allegedly from SCO, about my "unlicensed use of their property" or some such rubbish. Frankly I'd find out what made them think I was file sharing then offer to let them set the court date and hang up on them. You can't win these cases with just an IP address and even if some brain dead court did award them a judgement with no other evidence it'd be far less than $20 per song.