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		MichaelGG on Aug 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolli... Didn't Righthaven get slapped down for that? At least in the US, you can't sell the "right to sue" for copyright.

nness on Aug 4, 2013 [–]

Ars did a post-mortem of sorts that explained just that, that Righthaven did not posses any actual interest in the copyrights themselves, and had no standing to sue.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/copyright-troll-r...

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