Asking for $750 Minimum Statutory Damages is not as scary as you might think. Minimum statutory damages for copyright infringement is $750. Copyright trolls and their attorneys scare accused downloaders with the $150,000 number in EVERY SINGLE SETTLEMENT DEMAND LETTER. But baked into the copyright laws is that ‘minimum statutory damages’ number, which is $750. … Read more
Tweaking an old strategy for a more effective one. For those of you who speak to me on Twitter, I am working on implementing a new strategy based on Matthew Sag’s “Defense Against The Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling” paper. Most relevant to this is finding representation for John Doe Defendants who did not do … Read more
The best time to hire an attorney is immediately when the ISP sends the subpoena letter indicating you have been implicated as a John Doe in the lawsuit.
Launching TorrentLawyer University to help “John Doe” subpoena recipients get quick answers to their bittorrent-based copyright infringement lawsuit questions.
Unscrupulous attorneys (‘copyright trolls’) accuse defendants without researching whether there is any valid evidence, and their lawsuits are circumstantial.