Courts Call Out Copyright Trolls' Coercive Business Model, Threaten Sanctions

[phxsunbum]

Found this on the EFF.org site:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/courts-call-out-copyright-trolls-coercive-business

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

Evan Stone has been around for a while pulling this stuff, he once sued an 80 something grandmother for downloading over 400 porn movies.. problem is he has no way of proving anything, just because it came back to her IP doesn't mean I was sitting at her curb mooching her internet connection and downloading to my hearts content.., I think once enough judges see this type of behavior, it will help our cause, and Righthave is sure helping in that regard.

[SoylentGreen]

IP addresses change all the time, and can even be faked.
So the courts have always been reluctant to rely on IP addresses alone.

In any case, Stone's client Michael Haig didn't register for copyright.  So, he was dead in the water from the beginning.
Non-registraton and/or faulty registrations have plagued everyone from Getty to Righthaven.
I'm not sure why there's so much resistance in industry to making proper registrations.


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S.G.

[Oscar Michelen]

The resistance is time and money. I always felt that Getty did not bother to register their catalogs because they knew that compilation registration did not provide protection over the individual images within the compilation and it would be impossible and costly to register each individual image