Troll Seeks Protection Order from Anti-Troll Sites

[Greg Troy (KeepFighting)]

I came across an interesting article over on www.dietrolldie.com where it copyright troll asked the judge for protective order as he is aware of anti-troll sites, their blogs and harassment against him and his employees for filing suits. Here is a snippet of the article followed by a link to the full article.

5.    Plaintiff has good cause for a protective order because if this information is provided to the public, Plaintiff, its employees and affiliates will be subject to annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden and expense pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c).  Plaintiff is aware of anti-copyright blogs and websites that follow cases by Plaintiff and disseminate defense strategies and other information. Often these blogs and websites encourage individuals to harass Plaintiff, its employees and affiliates in order to discourage Plaintiff from filing suits against individuals that have infringed its copyrights. Several of Plaintiff’s counsel have received death threats and other harassing letters and emails. Plaintiff has a legitimate fear that if the information of its employees and affiliates is provided and disseminated to the public, Plaintiff, its employees and affiliates will be susceptible to similar threats and experience annoyance, embarrassment and harassment.

http://dietrolldie.com/2012/08/28/why-we-fight-copyright-trolls-troll-kotzker-wants-a-protective-order-112-cv-00886/

[meontheweb]

That's a great article, I read it and the comments to it.  It is unbelievable that lawyers -- who should be upholding the law, and protecting free speech are the ones that want to shutter it!  I hope that no judge would grant them their request.  If it wasn't for websites like this and many others, many of us (myself included) probably would have agreed to pay whatever was asked of us and chalked it up to a learning experience.

I really got a chuckle out of the highlighted points!

[Greg Troy (KeepFighting)]

I agree, and I got a good chuckle when I found the article as well. If you think about it the trolls have really been taking a beating lately not only in decisions and rulings but also in countersuits being filed.