Understanding the patterns of filings by Malibu Media, LLC.
Malibu Media is now suing in Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. These are “safe haven” courts because of past rulings who allowed Malibu’s cases to proceed.
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Need to rehash some bittorrent concepts because they are just as relevant today as they were five years ago.
Every few years it is important to rehash some older bittorrent concepts which are still relevant to today’s copyright infringement lawsuits.
Comcast Fights Prenda… Victory for its subscribers!
Congratulations to the Texas Millennium TGA, Inc. defendants who (with the assistance of their Comcast ISP) will never have their information shared with Prenda Law Inc., Doug McIntyre (Prenda’s local counsel), or Millennium TGA, Inc. Essentially, you have won your case because the copyright trolls will never know who you are (without great effort). In … Read more
Comcast wins battle against Millennium TGA & Prenda. Subscribers lose.
It is always nice when one judge reaches into another judge’s docket and removes a case from his docket. While I cannot tell if this is exactly what happened here, all I can say is that Comcast essentially just won their “forum shopping” case against Prenda Law Inc. relating to their Millennium TGA, Inc. v. … Read more
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? New York’s Split Southern District Court
It is very easy to put up a banner claiming “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED — NO MORE BITTORRENT CASES IN SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK,” but reality is not that simple. A judge can give a ruling, and it can be a darned good ruling which is binding on all other judges in that federal district (similarly, … Read more