From the good folks at EFF: San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked judges in Texas and West Virginia to block requests to unmask accused file sharers in several predatory copyright troll lawsuits involving the alleged illegal downloading of pornography. The cases were filed by two different companies and involve different copyrighted…
Category: Court
SCOTUS denies certiorari in Maynard
Looking at the orders from the Supreme Court today, it looks like SCOTUS denied a writ of certiorari in Maynard v. United States. See this previous blog entry for some of the background and opinion on this case. I imagine we’ll see some comments from the privacy law blawgers, but if I understand this, this…
Hurt Locker Makers Sue Lawyer Who Helped ‘BitTorrent’ Defendants
Ernesto writes: Graham Syfert, the lawyer who offered self-help to alleged BitTorrent downloaders of films such as Far Cry and The Hurt Locker, has been sued by the makers of the latter movie. On behalf of Voltage Pictures, the US Copyright Group (USCG) is seeking sanctions against Syfert and demand $5000 for the ‘work’ the…
Transparency, Anonymity, and Internet Threats Against Children
Lyrissa Lidsky provides additional analysis of a court opinion discussed previously on this blog: A new case from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals pits the public interest in open and “transparent” legal proceedings against plaintiffs’ rights to proceed anonymously when they fear retaliation. This case, Doe v. Kamehameha Schools, 596 F.3d 1036 (9th Cir. 2010), is unusual…