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Copyright Protection Business Model Expands, Plagiarizes Others

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the time-to-exercise-the-rico-lawyers dept.

Techdirt has an amusing story about the expanding adoption of the RIAA-style business model of collecting settlement money from threats of litigation based on copyright infringement claims. This story comes with an amusing twist with the two cited companies, Davenport Lyons and ACS, being clearly related and ACS publishing an article with clearly plagiarized selections. Anything to make a buck I guess. "TorrentFreak noticed that an article apparently published by ACS Law was actually plagiarized from a variety of different sources, basically cut and pasted together with no credit or citations given at all. Remarkably, in some cases, articles with the exact opposite view of ACS Law were copied with paragraphs that just had an added sentence to the end which completely contradicted what the original article said."

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  1. Lawyers Rules, Sadly by gpronger · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He with the smartest lawyer wins.

    1. Re:Lawyers Rules, Sadly by Z00L00K · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Don't forget that a good lawyer also costs money which means that with enough money you can buy the ruling of the court too.

      Just look at the Pirate Bay trial.

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    2. Re:Lawyers Rules, Sadly by Migraineman · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Victory by attrition is still victory.

  2. Re:This story is nothing... by thedonger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I didn't hear it third hand like you, but I read on Slashdot that Techdirt reported that TorrentFreak noticed and article published by ACS Law blah blah blah.

    The Internets are creating circular blog references in order to control our minds.

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  3. It seems that many of those by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 2, Insightful

    who are trying most diligently to make mass money off of copyright claims, tend to know the least about copyright law and the way it is supposed to work.

  4. When one High rise in downtown Seattle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    has more lawyers then the entire country of Japan, I think I know were our problems really lay.

  5. Takes one to know one... by nausicaa · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "The trouble with law is lawyers." - Clarence Darrow :)