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July 18, 2016 10:44 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7nEItOw_K3Q/surprise-copyright-trolls-rip.html
Surprise: Copyright trolls rip off the rightsholders they supposedly "represent"
The copyright troll business-model: a sleazy lawyer gets copyright holders to one or more films (often, but not always, porn) to deputize them to police those rights; then the lawyer's company uses sloppy investigative techniques to accuse internet users of violating those copyrights; they use deceptive notices to get ISPs to give them contact details for those users (or to get the ISPs to pass notices on to the users); then they send "speculative invoices" to their victims, demanding money not to sue -- usually a sum that's calculated to be less than it would cost to ask a lawyer whether it's worth paying. (more…)
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7nEItOw_K3Q/surprise-copyright-trolls-rip.html
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