Court Dumps Prenda's Subpoena
from the quashed dept
You may recall that Prenda had (not surprisingly) gone crazy overboard with subpoenas in its attempt to intimidate some anti-copyright troll bloggers and their commenters. The EFF stepped in and asked a court to quash the subpoena, which the court has now done, in large part because Prenda never even bothered to respond.As of this date, no responsive memorandum has been filed. LRCiv 7.2(i) provides in part “if the opposing party does not serve and file the required answering memorandum, ...such noncompliance may be deemed a consent to the denial or granting of the motion and the Court may dispose of the motion summarily.” Pursuant to this rule, the Court deems Plaintiff's failure to serve and file the required answering memorandum a consent to the granting of Defendant-Movant's Motion to Quash the Subpoena to Wild West Domains Seeking Identity Information.I guess Prenda's a bit busy. Or someone there realized this subpoena had zero chance of actually going forward. Either way, the subpoena is dead.
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Wouldn't that simply be "because" rather than "in large part because"? What other parts were there that the court considered? It's a simple procedural victory.
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More likely, the court took the first and most expedient path leaving all other considerations unmentioned because they were not needed in order to clear the issue at hand.
But then go ahead and dream up more insidious conspiracies as that seems to fit you well.
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Evidence shows the court took the most expeditious path to move the case. Are you suggesting that Prenda would've prevailed if not for their shortsightedness?
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Lazy, does not a good lawyer make.
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Prenda Fall down
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This subpoena request was an attempt to obtain the name of the blogger 'Die Troll Die'.
DTD runs the blog DieTrollDie.com where Copyright Trolls get exposed.
They also sought the name of 'Sophisticated Jane Doe', but the registrar was different and much less US based.
This was the 3rd(?) failure in this case to unmask anonymous posters/commentators and just visitors to the 2 blogs.
They contend that me calling them a half step up from Nigerian Scammers was defaming them, I think I gave them to much credit.
This was about trying to discredit those people who were calling out Pretenda et al. (they've had so many names past, present, and future) as evil people out to sully the name of these fine upstanding lawyers who were protecting pornographers.
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"Prenda? Prenda who? Never heard of 'em."
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Isn't the most like reason for no reply...
That's my take on it anyway.
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They need a song...
I got 99 problems, Prenda just ain't one.
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filing documents by misleading court workers comes to mind.
And money is due soon...
And everyones favorite RIAA shill is hopefully getting bench slapped by the appeals court after picking Prenda over the law...
So one has to wonder if Prenda et al, still think trying to silence the critics was a good plan. It seems to have backfired on them, gotten more people looking at what they were doing, and much more coverage of their dockets... there is a name for that... what is that effect again? :D
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