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Explain the lawsuit?

• jandrese 6y ago
  A few years ago there was a legal firm that specialized in tracking down people from their IP on porn torrents on the assumption that they wouldn't want their name in the public record and would settle for 5 figures. The law firm doing it was so shady they ended up losing the suits and having a judge tell them to knock it off.
  • thaumasiotes 6y ago
    Note that the conduct of Prenda which the judge objected to was that they were both the legal representation and the copyright owners, but didn't admit that before the court. There was no suggestion that their tactics posed any problems.
    • chmod775 6y ago
      There's also the problem that if the copyright owner themselves made the torrent available, it's not actually illegal to download it...
      • Batman8675309 6y ago
        [X] Doubt
        • chmod775 6y ago
          I don't know what's there to doubt really. You have been provided the work for free by the entity whose prerogative it is to choose the manners of distribution.
• sbierwagen 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law