Re:2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Sche...
by MichaelGG on Sunday August 04, 2013 @01:44AM
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Didn't Righthaven get slapped down for that? At least in the US, you can't sell the "right to sue" for copyright.
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Re:2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Sche...
by nness on Sunday August 04, 2013 @07:07PM
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Ars did a post-mortem of sorts that explained just that, that Righthaven did not posses any actual interest in the copyrights themselves, and had no standing to sue.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/copyright-troll-r...