I have added this page for internet users who have been entangled in the Millennium TGA, Inc. cases. The goal here is to keep up to date on this plaintiff, and to discuss their various cases. Should you learn of any updates regarding one of their cases, please post it here using the following format — (e.g., “Millennium TGA, Inc. v. John Doe (Case No. 4:11-cv-04501) filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas”). Please also feel free to post new cases you find on the http://www.rfcexpress.com website where Millennium TGA, Inc. is listed as the plaintiff.
Remember to please exercise discretion when posting (e.g., do not post your real name or e-mail address), and as usual, avoid using vulgar or offensive language (both towards the plaintiff and towards other users).
To get more of an understanding of the Millennium TGA, Inc. cases I have posted a few of the articles below to get you started:
“Forum Shopping” is the link between the TX & DC “Millennium TGA, Inc.” lawsuits. (posted 5/16/12)
Comcast wins battle against Millennium TGA & Prenda. Subscribers lose. (posted 5/29/12)
CASES FILED BY DOUGLAS M. MCINTYRE IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS:
Millennium TGA, Inc. v. John Doe (Case No. 4:11-cv-04501)
CASES FILED BY JOSEPH PEREA IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA:
Millennium TGA, Inc. v. Does 1-60 (Case No. 1:12-cv-20938)
CASES FILED BY DAVID A. LIN OF LEWIS & LIN, LLC IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK:
Millennium TGA, Incorporated v. Joel Leon et al (Case No. 1:12-cv-01360)
CASES FILED BY MATTHEW EDWARD DUMAS OF HOSTETTER & O’HARA IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA:
Millennium TGA Inc. v. John Doe (Case No. 1:12-cv-00838)
No doubt Millennium TGA, Inc. must be paying Steele Hansmeier, PLLC (now Prenda Law Inc.) a pretty penny. Prenda has been going all out for this client of theirs, really trying to use them to make a dent in favor the the copyright trolls’ case for legitimacy.
They started out also as a flop — I wrote about their original case here and here. Since then, they’ve gotten into a tangle with Comcast, and Prenda filed a lawsuit against them in DC attempting to compel Comcast to give over the names of the defendants in their Southern District of Texas case. No luck there. Now their own local counsel here (Doug McIntyre) is taking bittorrent cases of his own unrelated to Prenda’s bittorrent clients.
One more thing. You see Millennium TGA, Inc. is not worried about paying huge amounts of legal fees in order to have Prenda Law Inc. “name” their defendants. As you can see above, without warning, David Lin named Joel Leon in the Eastern District of New York. Gutsy considering what has already happened there and the clear disdain judges there have for copyright trolling cases.
I just posted a new article entitled, “At what point does a “copyright troll” stop being a troll?”
The article discusses the current trends by Prenda Law Inc. and John Steele as far and the comments explain the reason for the uptick in defendants getting named. Millennium TGA, Inc. was one of the plaintiffs described in the article.