The Electronic Frontier Foundation will represent two bloggers—the...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation will represent two bloggers -- the anonymous operators of FightCopyrightTrolls.com and DieTrollDie.com -- in a case against Paul Duffy and his copyright enforcement law firm Prenda Law, EFF said on its website Monday (http://bit.ly/13Sf729). It said…
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Duffy sued the two bloggers for defamation last month after the blogs criticized Duffy and his firm for “targeting large groups of anonymous ‘John Doe’ defendants for downloading files on BitTorrent, seeking their identities, and exploiting the massive damages in copyright law in order to pressure defendants into settling quickly.” EFF Staff Attorney Mitch Stoltz called the lawsuits “a blatant attempt to abuse the legal process to punish critics.” Duffy also served a subpoena on Automattic, the company that owns the Wordpress blogging platform, seeking “the IP addresses of everyone who ever visited the two websites, threatening the privacy of the bloggers and their readers,” said the EFF release. The subpoena is “improper under the First Amendment” and “fails to comply with the simple rules for pre-trial discovery,” said EFF Staff Attorney Nate Cardozo.