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Appeals Judge Calls Prenda an "Ingenious Crooked Extortionate Operation"
ktetch-pirate ("pirate politician" Andrew Norton) writes with this news from his blog: [Monday] was the long-awaited appeals court hearing in the ongoing Prenda copyright troll saga. Almost exactly two years after Judge Otis Wright went sci-fi on Prenda and its principles, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held an appeals hearing requested by Prenda on the sanctions, and it was not a pretty day for Prenda. Highlights included Senior Judge Pregerson calling Prenda's operation an "Ingenious Crooked Extortionate Operation" after describing in detail how they operate.
Prenda also astonished the judges by welcoming the idea of a criminal contempt hearing, which Legal blog Popehat thinks is likely to happen, on top of the sanctions being sustained.
Prenda also astonished the judges by welcoming the idea of a criminal contempt hearing, which Legal blog Popehat thinks is likely to happen, on top of the sanctions being sustained.
I guess going sci-fi means saying someone is just a redshirt.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/139843902/Prenda-Sanctions-Order
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"Going sci-fi" refers to the Star Trek references THROUGHOUT the entire order. Starting with a quote from Spock from the Wrath of Khan.
The hearings, as you may recall, did not go well for Team Prenda and all its associated players. While Wright may be somewhat limited in what he can do to Prenda, it appears he's doing his best to throw whatever book he can at them, randomly using as many Star Trek references as he can cram into the tight 11 page order.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Here's one three-line example:
That's 5 references in 2 sentences.
True but the link points to another slashdot story, the summary of which says nothing about Star Trek. The link should have pointed directly to the Ars Technica article.
I do not block ads. I do block third party scripts.
The lawyers ARE the executives, whose corporate veil has already been pierced in several of the cases (so no hinding behind companies) and there are no VC's.
The lawyers are representing companies they themselves own, but hiding that fact from the courts so they can sue over bittorrent downloads they themselves uploaded to TPB, while obstructing every court effort to get to the bottom of things.
You're way off on how this case is going
The lawyers themselves are accused of contempt of court for falsifying court documents amongst a few other things, fraud of the courts included. They are very much looking at heading to prison as it was their own actions in court that are the basis of the criminal accusations.