WOO HOO, Copyright troll Righthaven now starts paying those it sued

Righthaven doesn't always look like a particularly organized operation. The company sues people who have allegedly violated newspaper copyrights, but in a couple years of operation, it has repeatedly managed to do things like sue an Ars Technica writer for infringement without realizing that it was suing a journalist who had used Righthaven's own court filings, lose cases even where nonprofit defendants copied entire articles, and anger judges who found that Righthaven doesn't even have the standing to bring many of its lawsuits.

Now, Righthaven has to start dealing with these problems in a more tangible way: cash payouts.

Yesterday, a federal judge in Nevada ordered Righthaven to pay $3,815 in legal fees after botching one of its case. Righthaven had sued one Michael Leon back in September 2010, but it didn't even serve the right paperwork in the case. When multiple defendants started responding to the court, the judge notes that she "became suspicious that there may have been a problem" and set a hearing to talk about it.

The April 20, 2011 hearing concluded with a decision that the case would be dismissed because the defendants had never been properly served with the Amended Complaint—and the window for doing so had expired. In addition, Righthaven would be on the hook for the legal fees in the case

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/copyright-troll-righthaven-now-starts-paying-those-it-sued.ars

Are we going to be able to make a large donation for food and shelter for the homeless?

:woohoo: :party:

I mean, 30 beers on tab was pretty cool, but now the Admins will be able to have unlimited buffalo wings every night, too. And hire some people not wearing a lot of clothes to bring them with a smile.



Bliss.

Oh, Nevermind.

-Hoot

Now let's see if they'll go after some of the other copyright trolls out there: how about the ones hiding in the Warner Music Group or Viacom for starters?