[Infowarrior] - Prenda pirated itself to extort victims: expert

[Richard Forno]

Porno copyright trolls Prenda: expert says they pirated their own movies to get victims to download

Cory Doctorow at 8:00 pm Mon, Jun 3, 2013

The saga of porno-copyright-trolls Prenda Law (previously) just keeps getting more tawdry. Prenda is a mysterious extortionate lawsuit-threat-factory that claimed to represent pornographers when it sent thousands (and thousands!) of legal threats to people, telling them they'd get embroiled in ugly litigation that would forever tie their names to embarrassing pornography titles unless they paid hush money.

Their con has unraveled in a series of legal losses. Now, one of their victims has had an expert witness file an affidavit in First Time Videos vs. Paul Oppold, a case in Florida. The expert fields an astonishing accusation: Prenda Law's principle, John Steele, is the person who uploaded the infringing pornography in the first place, listing it on BitTorrent index sites with information inviting people to download it -- people whom he then sent legal threats to for downloading those selfsame movies.

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http://boingboing.net/2013/06/03/porno-copyright-trolls-prenda-2.html

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