The legal blackmail business: inside a P2P settlement factory

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Am I a bad person when news of Operation Payback does bring a small smile to my face?

only if it was wrong to smile when you heard this:
“Let me tell you ‘What Now?’, I’m gonna call a couple of hard pipe-hitting niggers to go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. YOU HEAR ME TALKING HILLBILLY BOY! I ain’t through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass.”

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Originally Posted by darkmawl

Am I a bad person when news of Operation Payback does bring a small smile to my face?

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no

Too bad those "f--kers" would never actually buy his films anyway. Too bad torrenting actually brings greater awareness/publicity to the existence of those films. Nooo... let's litigate their asses because that's obviously the best course of action.
Bastards.
And this isn't unique to filesharing, either: "legal blackmail" happens all the time in the banking industry, and it's a damn shame.

This isn't just a filesharing issue. Law firms get a huge amount of revenue from all kinds of settlement cases.