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They bought the right to sue from the actual copyright owners. Think of it as outsourcing the copyright enforcement.
by ori_b 13y ago
They bought the right to sue from the actual copyright owners. Think of it as outsourcing the copyright enforcement.
- MichaelGG 13y agoDidn't Righthaven get slapped down for that? At least in the US, you can't sell the "right to sue" for copyright.
- nness 13y agoArs did a post-mortem of sorts that explained just that, that Righthaven did not posses any actual interest in the copyrights themselves, and had no standing to sue. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/copyright-troll-righthaven-finally-completely-dead/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/copyright-troll-r...