<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; ">Techdirt Daily Email for Tuesday, 04 October 2011</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; "><br></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 3px; ">(Click<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/blog/techdirt/">here</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to visit the site)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 3px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; color: rgb(26, 81, 143); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-weight: bold; position: static; z-index: auto; "><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111003/03531716178/copyright-trolls-invading-australia.shtml">Copyright Trolls Invading Australia</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(<i>Copyright</i>)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; color: rgb(137, 78, 1); ">by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Mike Masnick</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>next-on-the-list</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>dept on Monday, October 3rd, 2011 @ 11:04PM</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 3px; ">It appears that the plague of copyright trolls is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/mass-bittorrent-lawsuits-set-to-plague-australia-111001/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">moving down under to Australia</a>. 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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 3px; "><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111003/03531716178/copyright-trolls-invading-australia.shtml">4 Comments</a></div></span></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>