What a bunch of assholes. Writing up propaganda which frames attornies hunting down torrent seeders as "villains"...
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It's not fun, but all things considered, John Steele is OK with being a villain.
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Internet privacy advocates and technology writers call Steele a "copyright troll" and accuse his firm of scouring the Internet to track down computers that download pornographic videos, then forcing Internet service providers to identify the computer owners so it can shame those people into writing settlement checks.
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The incentive to settle is to keep from being named forever in court records as a porno fiend, which "seems to me like it's a good way to make an easy buck," said Julie Samuels, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, nonprofit advocate for what it calls "freedoms in the networked world."
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http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...s-get-personal
Fuck you NBC. Links pulled...
