![]() In fact, others have tried it in the past, and it doesn’t work. ![]() That kind of blaming the middleman is never going to work. Uber copyright troll/porn producer Malibu Media has won an easy lawsuit against a defendant who tried to blame everything on the fact that he used Kickass Torrents to download Malibu Media movies. Unfortunately, it looks like we have another example of this. Even worse: bad defendants create really bad case law that allows copyright trolls to use those cases to shake down lots of other people, many of which probably have much stronger cases. But if you’re caught dead to rights infringing on the works of others, pretending that some magical fantasy world is going to open up in the back of the closet is just silly. Yes, there are all sorts of ridiculous things about many of these cases, and there are all sorts of legal questions raised about them. In both cases we pointed out that they should have settled, and that fighting on when they had no case was a really bad idea. In both cases, they were bad defendants who clearly broke the law and then tried to play cute in defending themselves. We had this with both of the RIAA’s lawsuits against Jammie Thomas and Joel Tenenbaum. It’s one thing to take a stand against questionable copyright trolling, but it’s another thing to be a really bad defendant. Wed, Jul 23rd 2014 07:47am - Mike Masnick
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