Tuesday, 7 March 2017

steele made more than $6 million by threatening Internet users with copyright lawsuits

quote [ Disgraced lawyer pleads guilty; made $6 million filing lawsuits over porn—some of which he filmed... hid their role in making the porn and hid the fact that they had a personal stake in the outcome of the litigation. They subpoenaed Internet service providers to get subscriber information and then sent letters and made phone calls to the victims, threatening them with "enormous financial penalties and public embarrassment unless they agreed to pay a $3,000 settlement fee." ]

No, not that steele. Prenda Law internet porn-troll lawsuits John Steele. Good to see this guy spinning in the wind. Infuriating interview from a few years back in extended. Perhaps there should be a "Legal" category? Marked NSFW just in case. And for the naked troll chicks.

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[by midden@2:02pmGMT]

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steele said @ 2:03pm GMT on 7th Mar [Score:1 Classy Pr0n]
Or was it me after all... Ladies. ;)
mechanical contrivance said @ 2:26pm GMT on 7th Mar
Yup. Those are porn trolls.
-_- said @ 6:00am GMT on 8th Mar
Worse than that ... if you didn't agree to pay the $3K then you had to hire a lawyer to fight Prenda Law ... and most any lawyer is going to want at least $3K up front for a case like this.
I know because it happened to me.
Tenant at the brothel fell for a Prenda Law honey trap and the internet account for the building was in my name.
I was sending $100/month to Prenda until they got ruled against in court, then I stopped. A few months later they were shutdown.
mechanical contrivance said @ 2:07pm GMT on 8th Mar
You own a brothel?
-_- said @ 8:11am GMT on 9th Mar
I own a hotel that was THE high end brothel in this town for 28 years.
Now it's a rooming house.
foobar said @ 9:26am GMT on 9th Mar
You own the Klamath Falls bathhouse? Dude, wtf? Why where you holding out on us? I have bottle caps.
-_- said @ 11:04am GMT on 9th Mar
I own that game "in the box unopened" with Fallout 1 as a bundle .. just ... because ;D
foobar said @ 5:22am GMT on 9th Mar
You own a brothel and you're bothering us with your perpetual motion machine?! Wrong story man.
-_- said @ 8:12am GMT on 9th Mar
If you think that was a perpetual motion machine you're a fucking idiot.
foobar said @ 9:27am GMT on 9th Mar
Oh -_-. We do not violate conservation of momentum in this universe.
-_- said @ 10:24am GMT on 9th Mar
There's no need to violate conservation of momentum when you can simply exploit a situation where it does not apply.

Or perhaps ... are you thinking conservation of momentum always applies?

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