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1 hr ago | Ars Technica

Patent troll that wants $1,000 per worker gets sued by Vermont A-G

Late last year, a vigorous and secretive patent troll began sending out thousands of letters to small businesses all around the country, insisting that they owed between $900 and $1,200 per worker just for using scanners.

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Related Topix: Vermont, Vermont Government, Small Business, Personal Finance, Non-Profit

2 hrs ago | Forbes.com

Vermont Enacts The Nation's First Anti-Patent Trolling Law

Efforts to crack down on patent trolling are escalating. Just a couple of years ago, Congress passed a major amendment of the Patent Act with the hope that it would curb some abusive patent assertions.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Inventions

Thu May 16, 2013

Reuters

Newegg, Overstock win patent fight with Alcatel-Lucent

The online shopping sites Newegg and Overstock Inc won a patent battle on Wednesday with telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA, which had accused the companies of infringing its patented technology.

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Related Topix: Newegg, Telecom, Alcatel, Alcatel-Lucent, US News, Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, Computers

Tue May 14, 2013

Daily Kos

Toosdai Critters

Those of you who already either know me or know of me know that I am a massive pootie person.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Bike Magazine

News Of The Tweet: What's Up Doc? - Satire, sweaters, swinging a foot at owls

Let's start the day off with something funny. The Onion News Network is a satirical sitcom, not a documentary.

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Mon May 13, 2013

FindLaw

Notorious Porn, Copyright, Patent Trolls Down But Not Out

By now, many of you have heard of Prenda Law . The porn-trolling "law firm" spent years sending demand letters to those who illegally downloaded porn.

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Ars Technica

New Prenda letter threatens to tell neighbors about porn accusations

Despite the fact that four of the lawyers linked to porn-trolling enterprise Prenda Law have been forwarded to criminal investigators, the organization is charging full-steam ahead with one of its last cases: LW Systems v. Hubbard .

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law

Ars Technica

Troll road: Bus company posts "dirt" on complaining passenger

You might think that Dennis Toeppen, the one-time domain squatter and owner of weekend shuttle service Suburban Express, would have learned valuable lessons about social media by now.

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Related Topix: Blog News

Long Island Business News

Schumer bill seeks to slow patent trolling

A bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer would head off so-called "patent troll" firms that seek quick settlements from harassing infringement suits.

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Related Topix: US Senate, US Politics, Charles Schumer, Democrat, US News

Daily Kos

The Party of Troll

I am truly at a loss to come up with examples of Republican party accomplishments that can be viewed as anything OTHER than trolling on a national scale.

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Related Topix: US News, George Bush, Dick Cheney

Sat May 11, 2013

Daily Kos

Happee Caturdai Pootie Diaree

Those of you who already either know me or know of me know that I am a massive pootie person.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Liberal Political News

Fri May 10, 2013

Mile High Report

Calikula's Imperial Weekend Thread: Back in Black edition

Back in action ladies and gents!! Well, maybe just gents, I havent seen any female commentators on the weekend thread so far.

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Related Topix: Sports, Denver Broncos, NFL Football

Seattle Times

Early coastal chinook troll fishery could hold signs of what anglers can expect in spring-summer

Many ocean salmon sport anglers are wondering what to expect as the first fishery of the season opens this Friday and Saturday off the northern coast at La Push and Neah Bay.

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Related Topix: Neah Bay, WA, La Push, WA

Ars Technica

"Look, you may hate me": 90 minutes with John Steele, porn troll

After years of fine-tuning a business model built around copyright lawsuits over pornographic movies, prolific anti-piracy lawyer John Steele is now on the receiving end of a devastating sanctions order by a federal judge in Los Angeles, who has recommended a criminal investigation of Steele and his colleagues.

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Thu May 09, 2013

Eric Goldman

Copyright Trolling Is Really Hard to Do Profitably--Righthaven v. Hoehn

It's been a rough week for copyright trolls. First, Judge Wright destroyed the Prenda Law enterprise in a sanction-filled opinion .

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Wed May 08, 2013

Ventura County Star

Weekly fishing report, May 8

Courtesy photo Eric Neumann and John Jensen hold up a 60-pound white seabass caught by Neumann while fishing Santa Cruz Island.

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Related Topix: Newbury Park, CA, Ventura, CA, Oxnard, CA, Santa Paula, CA

Spin

Why It Doesn't Pay to Heckle Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump

Earlier today on Twitter, Fall Out Boy singer Patrick Stump went on an 18-tweet rant directed at a heckler that he later revealed to be professional troll Shane Morris .

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Related Topix: Twitter

KBOI-AM Boise

Judge Slaps Attorneys for Alleged Porn Shakedown

In a scathing decision, Judge Otis Wright for the central district of California earlier this week imposed sanctions against a group of lawyers who, he said, had "outmaneuvered the legal system" by figuring out a way to squeeze money from hundreds of people they accused of having illegally downloaded porn from the Internet.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law

Silicon Alley Insider

Judge Slams 'Troll' Lawsuit Against Illegal Porn Downloaders

A federal judge is slamming copyright lawyers tied to a firm known as Prenda Law for launching a multimillion dollar "porn trolling collective." Judge Otis Wright told the lawyers' state bar associations they'd engaged in "moral turpitude" by coercing people to settle porn copyright suits or else be outed as illegal porn downloaders.

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Mashable

The Lonely Island Trolls Bros With 'Spring Break Anthem'

"Spring Break Anthem" is a rap about chicks in bikinis and knocking back Corona Light in Cancun.

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Related Topix: Andy Samberg