Porno-copyright troll behind "Prenda Law" pleads guilty to everything

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/03/07/finally.html

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The mills of God grind slowly, especially where lawyers might be the defendants. But sometimes they get there.

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I hope the judge brings the hammer, er, gavel, down hard.

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It’s a long saga:

https://arstechnica.com/series/whos-behind-prenda-law/

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FBI and IRS have investigated.

That is the most astonishing part of the article. So they can pull their thumbs out’a their asses once in awhile…

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Ken @ Popehat seems to think that Steele is hoping for extreme leniency (< 5 years behind bars) if he testifies against Hansmeier.

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He’ll be cornering the market on ramen and cigarettes in no time!

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The bogusness runs deep in this one: Even his portrait looks photoshopped.

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The irony is that Steele’s porno flicks may have featured such doings.

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Good one.

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They actually produced their own porn? I thought they just bought the rights?

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Per the Arstechnica story:

"Steele and Hansmeier set up “sham entities” to get copyrights to pornographic movies, “some of which they filmed themselves,”

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“A Steele and Hansmeier Production” =/= sign of quality, even in pornography.

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So they have a fallback in case the whole lawyer thing doesn’t work out? Because it’s not working out.

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Now that’s a porn worthy name. “Steele Gets Hammered 5”

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It does have a certain ‘ring’ to it.

That may depend on whether or not they can put out good porn (assuming there’s really such a thing as bad porn).

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heh-heh – wanna have some fun" Go post that on /b/.

…And if people weren’t such goddamn prudes (I’m looking at you, America), these fucken jive turkeys wouldn’t have a business model.

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Trust me. There IS such a thing as bad porn.

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