“Copyright troll” targets MegaUpload in multi-million dollar lawsuit

Posted: 2011/02/02 in Education / Awareness, Litigation, New Business Models

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-multi-million-dollar-lawsuit-110202/

Previously:

Perfect 10 is a company that, for a brief period of time, apparently published a rather expensive porn magazine. Since then, it seems to have served a single purpose: to file ridiculous copyright lawsuits that it almost always loses, but which have helped to define case law concerning copyright issues.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101223/11324712396/perfect-10-claiming-that-passing-along-its-dmca-notices-is-itself-infringing.shtml

And:

Perfect 10 Loses Again, As Court Says DMCA Notices Need To Be Properly Filed
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100729/02125810405.shtml

In Perfect 10 v. Google, Round 3 Goes to Google: No Sloppy DMCA Notices
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/07/perfect-10-v-google-round-3-goes-google-no-sloppy

EFF Comes Out, Guns Blazing, In Countersuit Against Righthaven & Stepens Media
The Las Vegas Sun has a good overview of the counterclaims and defenses. Helping out the EFF is Andrew Bridges, who is known for challenging questionable copyright lawsuits with creative, but solid, defenses — so some of the defenses here shouldn’t be all that surprising.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100928/16212911200/eff-comes-out-guns-blazing-in-countersuit-against-righthaven-stepens-media.shtml

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