2011-09-25 — wired.com
LOL:
The legal woes of Las Vegas-based copyright-trolling firm Righthaven continued Sunday when one of its creditors moved to seize its assets.
The development comes a week after the deadline passed for the former litigation factory to pay defendant Wayne Hoehn $34,000 in legal fees for successfully defending himself against a Righthaven copyright lawsuit. Righthaven had asked U.S. District Judge Philip Pro of Nevada to stay the fee award, saying it might slip into bankruptcy if forced to pay.
Despite there certainly being some valid instances of copyright infringement out there, RightHaven had become a huge hazard by "suing first and asking questions later" in an indiscriminate manner -- in other words, basic extortion in a manner that threatened free speech to its core. Something we at ML-Implode know a lottttt about.
(To those who haven't been following the RightHaven saga, the company bought rights to articles from publications such as Las Vegas Review-Journal, particularly their online sites, and then went around suing anyone who was posting even portions of these articles in a "fair use" manner. The behavior seemed especially focused on "contrarian" sites and bloggers.)
Update: Here is another article with more gritty details. Apparently RightHaven got slapped back in the Hoehn case because they hadn't even properly secured rights to the content they were suing over.
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