Righthaven says it might have to file for bankruptcy

[ljm2002]

Source: Las Vegas Sun

Despite its backing by the billionaire Warren Stephens family, Las Vegas copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC warned today it may have to file for bankruptcy because of a series of setbacks in its litigation campaign.

The warning came in an emergency request by Righthaven to a federal judge in Las Vegas that he stay his order that Righthaven pay $34,045 in legal fees to attorneys who successfully defended Kentucky message board poster Wayne Hoehn against a Righthaven lawsuit.

Righthaven has already appealed U.S. District Judge Philip Pro’s fee award to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Righthaven is also appealing the underlying rulings by Pro finding Righthaven lacked standing to sue Hoehn and – even if it had standing – that Hoehn was protected by fair use in posting an entire Las Vegas Review-Journal column on a sports betting website message board.

Read more: http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/sep/09/righthaven-says-it-might-have-file-bankruptcy/

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Looks like the chickens are coming home to roost...

[Ian David]

1. ...

[expatriate2mex]

30. What he said,nt

[rpannier]

40. says it all nt

[Warpy]

41. They'll be back under another name

but with the same basic idea, sue big message boards and hope they're cowardly enough to settle to make them go away while putting a chill on internet speech. That latter point is why Stephens backed them in the first place.

They'll be back because he won't give up.

[On the Road]

46. Yes, But Precedent Has Been Established for This Type of Case

and they may not be able to retain their source of funding.

[Turbineguy]

2. Awwww... geee....

What a loss the the community of useless companies that will be.

[Permanut]

3. Good news, K&R..

Sometimes the cockroaches actually do have to crawl back under the rocks.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. !

:bounce: :applause: :woohoo:

[Jamastiene]

5. Good!

[xchrom]

6. Dear Righthaven: rot in Hell. Nt

[MinneapolisMatt]

7. snort

:nopity:

[peace frog]

8. Golly-darn, what a shame

NOT.

Schadenfreude, sweet schadenfreude.

[catbyte]

9. Oh boo freaking hoo. Cry me a river, trolls

[Liberal Veteran]

10. Gosh. I'm so upset with - crap! I broke a nail!

My poor nail. :cry:

[Downwinder]

11. Good thing DU can still go after Stephens, sounds like Righthaven has been sucked dry.

[Roland99]

12. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

[SoapBox]

13. Fantastic news.

...amazing how this dirt bag company, is now whining.

[sakabatou]

14. Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

[duhneece]

15. Ultimately, was it a 'protection racket'

Maybe I'm anthropomorphizing, but I always pictured Righthaven as a bully, a thug.

[closeupready]

16. K&R

nt

[cosmicone]

17. shedding crocodile tears ..... n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Teach 'em to screw with DU.

and continuing kudos to Electronic Frontier Foundation!!!!!!

[GreenTea]

19. Let's fucking hope so.....Republican slime!

[expatriate2mex]

They have gone after both sides,

I don't think you could label them either democrat or republican. They are still slimeballs though.

The stephens group, that backs them, donate to candidates from both parties. I guess you would have to call them republican/democrat slime, but slime nonetheless.

http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/The_Stephens_Group

[blogslut]

48. Oh, I think I can say with some certainty that Stephens Media is Republican

https://wlunews.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/warren-stephens-79-honored-by-president-bush/
http://arkansasnews.com/2011/05/27/bush-joins-in-celebrating-first-tee/
http://newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=AR&last=Stephens&first=Warren
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/FECCommitteeDetail.html?FECCommitteeID=2253

[expatriate2mex]

54. Well, I lived in arkansas (fort smith and fayetteville)

and their papers were actually more to the left than right. Conservatives think they are downright liberal papers, but that is a pretty conservative.

Off the top of my head they went after the freepers and a president of one of the tea party groups (or whatever they are called). They were after money, period.

[Cirque du So-What]

20. I hope everyone associated with this ripoff scheme

suffers the same financial fate. In the world of 'corporate personhood,' this is the closest thing possible to 'capital punishment.' This company has proven itself unfit to exist in the same world as 'decent' companies...although 'decency' is not something I expect from corporate entities.

[saras]

22. Well, no, if it was like capital punishment, the responsible parties couldn't form a new company.

It's more like a traffic ticket to a banker. What they accomplished was worth thousands of times as much as they'll lose. And everyone involved is completely free to try again, with a slightly different set of rules, until they find one they can get away with.

[Cirque du So-What]

25. Reincarnation, then?

Yeah, it's too bad that their 'corporate license' can't be revoked.

[saras]

45. Actually what I would do is forbid the responsible managers from ever holding a management position.

No control over other employees. No control over money. No matter where they work in the future, it should be behind a service counter, like McDonalds or something.

[kestrel91316]

21. Freakin' awesome!!! Best news all day!!

ROFLMFAO

[supernova]

23. Wow! You mean you can't have suing people as a prime business model?

What is this great nation coming to?

:sarcasm:

[Lint Head]

24. This is wonderful news. It's so good to see rats like this bite the dust.

[The Wielding Truth]

26. might have to.... It would be better if they would be desolved.IMO

[av8rdave]

27. Karhma...it's what's for dinner!

[pinboy3niner]

28. WRONGhaven :)

[Iggo]

31. Oh, BURN!!!!

:rofl:

[Mendocino]

29. I'm going to go to the

junkyard and buy a 15 year old Mustang, then race it till the engine explodes. Then I'll sue Ford for damages because I really don't want to work and lawsuits are just so much easier. ;)

[Mz Pip]

32. That's one way to avoid

paying the judgments that will be piling up against them. :eyes:

[Hubert Flottz]

33. The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass every day!

They need to "Move On and Get Over It!"

[TheEuclideanOne]

34. What a $34,000 suit is causing them to declare bankruptcy? I call bullshit

Maybe they see that it means that future plans for these scumbags won't work, but as for that amount of money, it has to be a drop in the bucket for what these assholes have made with their litigation. All I can say is Fuck them and Fuck all of the people cheering them on as breaking new ground in the area of copyright protection.

[RamboLiberal]

35. Die you bastard DIe! n/t

:nopity:

[stockholmer]

36. so much...........

[WillyT]

37. GOOD !!! - K & R !!!

:bounce:

:kick:

[Bigmack]

38. Gosh... I hope those people ....

don't lose their jobs and gO HOMELESS AND HAVE TO SLEEP UNDER BRIDGES AND EAT OUT OF DUMPSTERS.

Sorry... lost it for a minute there.

I'm OK now.

[struggle4progress]

39. Righthaven was set up as a corporate firewall against the possibility that these lawsuits

would backfire. So this is the expected move: having caused a number of parties expensive grief defending themselves against frivolous litigation, Righthaven throws up its hands and says "Ain't got no money, honey" when they get hit with costs, and the folk behind the scheme hope to walk away scot-free

[izquierdista]

42. Now, now, let's not kick them when they're down....

...until we buy a new pair of steel-toed boots. :evilgrin:

[ThoughtCriminal]

43. Future breakthroughs in nanotechnology

might make it possible to fabricate a violin small enough.
:nopity:

[enki23]

44. Backed by a fucking billionaire, but they get to bail out without him getting his pocketbook dirty.

.

[NBachers]

47. I love watching them go through their metaphorical corporate death throes

and I am in no way engaging in any kind of republican-style goat-whistling or advocacy of violence either also

[rasputin1952]

49. Nice to see RW slimebags beaten into the dust...

:D

[No Elephants]

50. Too bad. So sad.

:rofl:

[the_chinuk]

51. I'm glad the tide's turning against Wronghaven … but I'm a little confused …

The posting of an ENTIRE column doesn't qualify as "fair use". Never has. It was a dumb thing to do.

Wasn't Wronghaven's house burned down by the fact that their business model manifestly abused the system of copyrights merely to create an income stream?

[Poll_Blind]

52. N O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O !!!

:rofl:

PB

[Odin2005]

53. Get me a little violin!