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December 23, 2011 11:19 am PST
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Copyright troll Righthaven in its death throes, domain going up for auction
Copyright troll Righthaven was conceived of as a way of extorting money from websites on behalf of newspaper owners when quotations from those newspapers were posted to the web. The idea was that the newspapers would assign "the right to sue" to Righthaven, which would pursue lawsuits on their behalf, and share the take. Righthaven's [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/JYadnmZ7UjU/copyright-troll-righthaven-in.html
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