Team Prenda Loses In Default Judgment; Ruling Clearly Names Steele, Duffy And Hansmseier As Prenda Law
from the and-another-arrow-comes-in dept
Team Prenda is taking hits from pretty much every direction these days. The latest is that, in yet another AF Holdings case, this time in Massachusetts, Prenda had been told to put up a bond of $60,000, which it appears to have ignored. The court has now signed off on a default judgment ruling. Basically this just adds to the pile of money that Team Prenda owes. But a key point here is in the footnote:As noted in the supporting memorandum, AF Holdings has been found to be an alias of Prenda Law, Inc. and its principals -- John Steele, Paul Duffy and Paul Hansmeier.Steele and Hansmeier keep trying to claim they have absolutely nothing to do with Prenda, and Steele argues that he's got nothing to do with AF Holdings. Having more courts officially note that AF Holding is really Prenda, and Prenda really is Steele, Duffy and Hansmeier, is going to make their argument more and more difficult going forward.
Of course, as if on cue, in a different case, Paul Duffy is now arguing strenuously that it's unfair to lump Prenda Law in with Steele and Hansmeier or to connect it with AF Holdings. Of course, sooner or later, Duffy is going to realize that if he keeps making this argument, he's actually hanging himself out to dry, almost certainly leading up to Steele and Hansmeier quickly tossing Duffy under the bus when the opportunity permits (one assumes soon after they're done doing the same to Mark Lutz).
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Filed Under: default judgment, john steele, mark lutz, paul duffy, paul hansmeier
Companies: af holdings, prenda, prenda law
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Thanks to these trials being brought to light a lot of copyright enforcement's models and schemes, like their 30% error rate that largely went unquestioned by judges. Prenda's usage of the RIAA business model is unravelling in no small part thanks to their attempt to game the system by being producer and lawyer both at once, which is thankfully revealing more problems in the system.
Copyright enforcement will be going pearshaped and now Prenda is on the books as precedent in case anyone decides to be recklessly sue-happy.
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Now, you give Prenda too much credit. Their business model is really, 'nice reputation you have there. It would be a shame if you lost it because of basically baseless porn downloading allegations.' They have taken the protection racket to make it even more sleazy.
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Don't forget the IRS and state bars investigating
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Flight risk?
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Prenda Flight Betting Pool
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And then there were none
Before that there were Alan Cooper and Bret Gibbs. This is starting look like an absurd version of Agatha Cristie's "Ten Little Indians".
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Seriously, the bill can hit 42 quadrillion dollars and it won't matter.
1 - The next step is them missing the date to pay up, the people owed money incur more costs to file more papers pointing out they haven't paid and asking for more money.
2 - Pretenda files a pointless answer 3 days after the due date for the reply, Judge rules adds more cash.
3 - Goto Step 1.
All of the income an assets were allegedly tracked on a single spreadsheet. Giving them months to find legal ways to hollow the shells out more, so that no one gets anything.
Get caught with some pot in your car, they can and will take the damn car.
Get caught defrauding the court system, here have another 2 years to hide that money so we can't find it.
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I just can't get this tune out of my head...
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