One really can't make this stuff up. If it were a TV show, no one would believe it. If only it were legal for Prenda Law and their lawyers to be taken out an shot as an affront to everyone's intelligence.
POW: Smut-seeding copyright troll slammed as 'extortionate'
Prenda Law – the copyright troll whose exploits included seeding smut onto torrents, seeing who downloaded them, and threatening them with exposure if they didn't pay up as infringers – has been described as “crooked” and “extortionate” by a 91-year-old judge. The company wants the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn $237 …
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Wednesday 6th May 2015 10:11 GMT Rob Willett
No, no, no.
Don't take them out and shoot them, please....
We lost the SCO show as that ran off the rails in the litigation with IBM, this is the next best thing. In some respects this is even better as I never got to see any video from the SCO show.
If this was on HBO I'd pay for it.
We need the Prenda team to get their day in court. I'd actually buy a plane ticket to the US to watch them. I've never seen some compelling drama. Stuff Poldark, sod Downton Abbey, forget about the new Star Wars. This is the place to be.
Rob
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Wednesday 6th May 2015 06:51 GMT Notas Badoff
How far will a lawyer go?
Can you really get paid to railroad your own client into jail? Hmm, if the client (now bankrupt) refuses to pay, can you then demand the state pay your expenses? Can a client really be so stupid as to arrange for both prosecutor and 'defense' to be trying to put them in jail?
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Wednesday 6th May 2015 10:38 GMT TeeCee
Re: How far will a lawyer go?
If you read the full story on Popehat you'll find they already managed to accuse themselves of incompetence in an earlier case. You can judge the efficacy of that strategy by the fact that they got truly fucked and are now appealing.
Yes, they really are so stupid that the obvious gags have already been done. By them. In court. While keeping a straight face.
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Wednesday 6th May 2015 07:48 GMT Six_Degrees
Re: Just a thought
They're relying on most people's aversion to being associated with porn. There's no legal merit at all behind their threats. They are, as the judge rightly noted, flat-out extortion.
Fortunately for society as a whole, Prenda has an attorney who apparently has "Supreme Chucklehead" printed below his name on his business cards.
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Wednesday 6th May 2015 09:09 GMT Alan J. Wylie
Harry Pregerson, not Dean Pregersen,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Pregerson (with an "o")
Exactly 70 years ago he was "severely wounded in the Battle of Okinawa".
http://popehat.com/2015/05/04/prenda-law-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-appellate-argument/
Dean (also a judge) is his son, born after the war ended.