::fibreculture:: Copyright Trolls Invading Australia
Geert Lovink
geert at xs4all.nl
Thu Oct 6 19:31:02 CEST 2011
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> Copyright Trolls Invading Australia (Copyright)
> by Mike Masnick from the next-on-the-list dept on Monday, October
> 3rd, 2011 @ 11:04PM
> It appears that the plague of copyright trolls is moving down under
> to Australia. There's really not much of a surprise here. It's yet
> another example of some lawyers finding an opportunity to abuse
> copyright law to shake people down by offering "settlement fees"
> that are less than the cost of going to court. In the UK, such plans
> have been pretty harshly beat back, but they continue to spread
> elsewhere. In this case, it's an operation called Movie Rights
> Group, and it's planning to sue an awful lot of folks. Of course,
> whether or not it can actually get anyone to pay up is another story.
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