“Swarm joinder theory” & “Judicial Economy” ruling refuted.

Ruling 1) refutes the “judicial economy” justification for joinder, and 2) clarifies the relationship between bittorrent users for joinder purposes.

Canal Street Films… MORE AND MORE TROLLS…

MOVIE PRODUCTION COMPANY RELEASING B-RATED FILMS I would think that when someone creates and copyrights a film, the purpose of creating that film is to attract viewers to purchase tickets to view that film either in the theaters, or by selling DVDs of that film.  If part of their strategy is to hire new copyright … Read more

“Nice try, PHE, Inc. – a failed copyright troll.”

In a laughable attempt at a new copyright troll attempting to join the “me too” copyright infringement lawsuits that have been filed across the U.S., copyright troll attorney Sanjin Mutic [of the Mile High Law Office LLC; also on the board of the Triskele Foundation (thanks to SJD who did a good write-up on this)] stepped foot into … Read more

Why California Malibu Media Case Consolidations are Bad.

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Case consolidations (until now) happened when a federal judge lumped together different cases which all suffered from the same flaws, e.g., improper jurisdiction, improper joinder, etc. and they dismissed them all in one order. This was a good thing! However, when a troll-friendly judge consolidates a plaintiff attorneys case to keep the cases alive, but to manage the dockets, e.g., to avoid inconsistent rulings, while this in itself is a good thing for the court (and for justice), it is a bad thing for the defendants accused in those copyright infringement cases.