Internet Troll News

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 .

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.

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.

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