Last Updated on December 28, 2025 by Rob Cashman
This site is dedicated to educating the internet user accused of copyright infringement via the peer-to-peer (P2P) software (a.k.a. “bittorrent”). Most likely, you received a letter from your ISP in the mail along with a subpoena, where you are identified as a “John Doe” defendant in a lawsuit. Alternatively, you have been contacted by the plaintiff attorney demanding that you pay a settlement “or else you will be named and served in a lawsuit against you.” Most of these cases are filed in a federal court, thus an attorney licensed in any state can represent you.
STEPS TO TAKE:
Prior to setting up an appointment with a Cashman Law Firm, PLLC attorney, to properly educate you about the issues to be discussed on our phone consultation, it is best to:
1) Read the “SUED AS A JOHN DOE” WALKTHROUGH that I have written about all ISP Subpoena | John Doe lawsuits.
2) [IF you were already NAMED AND SERVED as a defendant, then] read the “NAMED AND SERVED IN A FEDERAL COURT” WALKTHROUGH that I have written.
3) THEN, read the “JUST THE FACTS” article that I wrote about your particular lawsuit.
4) ONCE YOU HAVE READ THESE*, then SCHEDULE A PHONE CONSULTATION with me because you will probably have a few questions [and you will probably want to retain me as your attorney].
*NOTE: If you want to just grab an available time slot [because these do run out], and then go through these steps, I’m okay with that. But please be sure to actually show up at the call educated about what I have shared in these articles.
HOW I USED TO HAVE PEOPLE USE THE BLOG.
In the olden days, I used to tell people to read the TorrentLawyer Legal Blog articles as the cases have unfolded, from bottom-up, but this list of articles have grown to over 200+ articles since I started writing them in 2010.
[Honestly, to make your life easier, I just buried most of the articles to make things easier for you – something I am still uncomfortable with – but looking at old, outdated information is just not useful to you when you are simply trying to figure out what to do about your lawsuit TODAY based on WHAT I KNOW ABOUT THE LAWSUITS TODAY.]
IF YOU NEED ME NOW, LOOK HERE.
I am also putting a web form below, just in case you want to reach me quickly. I see EVERY submission and I respond to each one.
Something I thought you would find interesting:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/judge-slashes-p2p-award-again-capitol-v-thomas
The 1.5 million judgement against Jammie Thomas-Rassett has been reduced to $54,000 by the judge. The judge said:
[A]n award of $1.5 million for stealing and distributing 24 songs for personal use is appalling. Such an award is so severe and oppressive as to be wholly disproportioned to the offense and obviously unreasonable. In this particular case, involving a first‑time willful, consumer infringer of limited means who committed illegal song file‑sharing for her own personal use, an award of $2,250 per song, for a total award of $54,000, is the maximum award consistent with due process.
As this case is used in these threat letters i think it’s important info to know.
Wow big ruling in the DC court today see Case 1:11-cv-00301-RLW Document 11
“Plaintiff can establish such a good faith basis for residence or personal jurisdiction by utilizing geolocation services that are generally available to the public to derive the approximate location of the IP addresses identified for each punitive defendant,” he writes.”
“It therefore appears that while these geolocation services are not 100% accurate, these services can place a user no farther away than a city that borders the user’s actual location,” the Judge wrote replying to NU Image’s attempt to mislead the court.
This blog seems quiet. Any one still here?
New update on 1:10-cv-0455 more dismissed