BitTorrent Grandma Was Wrongfully Accused, Lawyer Admits

Ernesto
August 31, 2011
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A 70-year-old retired widow from San Francisco who was accused of sharing a porn movie on BitTorrent has seen the case against her dropped. The woman, who went to the press after being threatened by a notorious anti-piracy law firm, was told that they targeted her by mistake. In what appears to be an attempt at diverting attention away from the damaging and embarrassing truth, the law firm claims it has now found the ‘real’ infringer.

In recent months hundreds of thousands of people have been accused of downloading and sharing copyrighted material on BitTorrent, often in cases related to adult content.

A significant number of the defendants are likely to be guilty, but there’s also a lot of collateral damage. Firstly it’s unclear how accurate the evidence gathering techniques of the copyright holders are, and even when they have the correct IP-address it doesn’t necessarily follow that the account holder on file is actually the infringer.

In previous weeks we showed how copyright holders accused the dead, blind and also a 70-year-old grandma who claimed to have never heard about BitTorrent. Unlike many others, the latter had no intention of paying up. Instead the retired widow from San Francisco went to the press with her conclusion that the letter she received “smacks of extortion.”

Paying the copyright holder a settlement fee for sharing porn (Amateur Allure: Kim) was out of the question, and she was determined to fight the case in court.

Lawyer John Steele, whose law firm is representing the copyright holder in this case, read the press reports on this case with great interest and took a step we’ve never seen before. Apparently Steele and his team decided to review their evidence, only to come to the shocking realization that they sued the wrong person.

In a letter to the woman signed by Steele, the lawyer explains that they’ve made a mistake and that the case against her is being dropped immediately. The letter further notes that the actual person who did download and share the porn movie was found.

Although this is great news for grandma, something is really wrong with this story.

If Steele claims that something went wrong, and that the real person has now been caught, this means that they actually included the wrong IP-address in the original complaint. Since an IP-address is the only evidence the copyright holders have, they must have made an error that they were able to correct later.

If that is indeed the case, then we have to wonder how many times such mistakes have been made in the past. Mistakes that cost innocent people several thousand dollars.

The other possibility is that the ISP made an error when matching the supplied IP address to a name, but there is no mention that this is the case and the lady in question has received no apology from her service provider.

The remaining explanation for this turn of events is that Steele and his friends are diverting attention away from the truth in what has turned out to be a significantly embarrassing case brought against a rightfully defiant lady. That wouldn’t be unthinkable either as copyright holders and the lawyers that represent them generally know that suing the old, dead, blind and crippled is bad for PR.

In the past we documented how the UK anti-piracy law firm ACS:Law deliberately chose to drop such cases to avoid bad press.

“If you find someone who is blind, one legged and dying, and you think they are not worth pursuing due to the possibility of bad PR, please also put them in [the folder of people who not to pursue] there,” lawyer Andrew Crossley wrote in an email to his colleagues.

It wouldn’t surprise us if the case against the 70-year-old grandma was dropped for exactly the same reason. But either way, instead of covering the case by dropping it, Steele and partners only raised more suspicion with their failed attempt to rationalize their ‘mistake’.

Adding insult to injury, their failure to even give grandma the courtesy of an apology only serves to discredit them further.

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Emmanic26

Poor Grandma doesn’t even have a computer nonetheless internet.
- Australia
  
  So, speaking as an Australian who has just read a bunch a cables about how the US (our closest ally, who we’ve backed and bled for through every one of their countless, shitty, useless, moronic, murderous wars) planned to butt-fuck us through our own courts…
  
  Can we all just agree that America is the worst fucking friend you could have and if we, as Australians, were truly a good friend in return, we would say that out loud?
  
  Amercia – you’re a butt-fuck ally. You drag us through shit for and get our soldiers killed for your own personal vendettas and limitless seeming greed. Then you turn around and try to fuck us behind our backs?
  
  You call yourselves the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, while your Hollywood fatcats plot to loot us and mess with our legal system?
  
  America.
  
  Go fuck yourself.
  - Anonymous
    
    Yes the American MPAA was the major force behind Australian AFACT and their case against iiNet.
    
    United States copyright enforcement bites the Australian public.
  - BarryCarey
    
    I’m American and I agree. Don’t trust us, we’ll take you from behind without buying you dinner first.
    - Anonymous
      
      I’m also an American, and I have to say, I would buy them dinner first, and even desert! Not everyone here is that barbaric.
    - Freja
      
      Nice that there are enlightened Americans who have seen through the brainwashing that “we are a fabulous freedom-loving democracy”.
      
      Remember to judge the country and its rulers, not the regular people!
  - PlatinumC
    
    At least put on some lipstick before you decide to fuck me.
  - monkeyslap
    
    At least in America we have a right to use a gun to protect ourselves and our families.
    P.S. I think I hear a dingo eating your baby.
    - Dang_Nabbit
      
      Have a shot at ICE for me.
    - Efw
      
      Can they use it on these bad guys? legal, I’ll say go for it!
  - Noah C.
    
    Heyyyyy Chill on America, and spell it right the next time. Australia isn’t Austria, is it? Point proven. Anyways.
    
    Surely by now you should’ve learned that the actions of American Politicians and Government almost never reflects the actual opinions or desires of the people.
    
    In fact, almost 90% of the time, it’s the exact opposite.
    
    Don’t blame AMERICA in General. Blame it’s GOVERNMENT. THEY can go fuck themselves for all I care. There’s a big different between the general population and the Government.
    - http://www.facebook.com/jhborden James H Borden
      
      I agree.
    - Australian
      
      “Don’t blame AMERICA in General. Blame it’s GOVERNMENT.”
      
      You live in a democracy don’t you? Who voted for the Government?
    - Anonymous
      
      Truth from Noah.
      
      And as far for being a representative democracy, and who voted these people into office, etc… What are you supposed to do when any given candidate is both insanely far removed from the world inhabited by the average American citizen, and incapable of truly representing the interests of the population of a diverse nation that is larger than the entire EU.
      
      Don’t hate on Americans simply because you have beef with the actions of our government and lobbyists, unless you are fine with people assuming everyone in Australia says things like ‘Crickey!’ frequently in casual conversation.
    - Anonymous
      
      Truth from Noah.
      
      And as far for being a representative democracy, and who voted these people into office, etc… What are you supposed to do when any given candidate is both insanely far removed from the world inhabited by the average American citizen, and incapable of truly representing the interests of the population of a diverse nation that is larger than the entire EU.
      
      Don’t hate on Americans simply because you have beef with the actions of our government and lobbyists, unless you are fine with people assuming everyone in Australia says things like ‘Crickey!’ frequently in casual conversation.
    - Noah C.
      
      To “Australian”:
      
      Yes, we do live in a Democracy, but it’s not that simple.
      
      First of all, you have to take in the way the Senate is run:
      
      A United States Senator is elected for periods of six years. This allows them to serve in at at least two terms of a presidency. This means that the person being elected, if the general election say, elects Barack Obama like they did almost four years ago, the Senate might still have a Republican Majority. It didn’t in this case, but this first rules out the balance of Government.
      
      Next we take the House of Representatives:
      
      The House of Representatives is so wacky it’s not even funny. Basically, every other year/even numbered years. This counters the actions of the Senate, which in turn, block the House of Representatives in a period of time like this, in which not many bills are able to be compromised. Instead, we’ve gotten ourselves into a situation where there is NO compromise.
      
      So, now we have a disagreeing Congress. Nothing get passed, especially now, except in absolute necessity, such as the Debt Extension Plan which we just passed. If I were a Senator or Representative, I would probably be voting yes on anything to get a god damn agreement by this point. Not exactly a good point, but this is why I’m not a politician.
      
      So, here we have a Senate and House that can’t pass anything, not even what the President wants. So, unless everybody agrees on everything, nothing gets done. It’s about as useful as the Articles of Confederation at this point.
      
      Now we bring up the Judicial Branch. Once a Supreme Justice, always a supreme justice. Or, as Wikipedia puts it, Justices are “tenured” for life, given they have good behavior.
      
      Now lets try something:
      
      Let’s say the newly elected Democratic President John G. Dickface wants to pass a bill legalizing Marijuana. He writes the bill, it goes through a committee to a Republican led House of Representatives, which has a Republican led Federal Food and Drug Administration Committee. They decide, like most conservative Republicans would, we don’t like this bill. So, they decide they aren’t going to legalize Marijuana. Instead, this Committee decides that the might legalize K-2, the similar drug (I know it’s already legal in some places, but just go with it).
      
      So, now we have a much weaker than President Dickface wanted. But, it passed the Committee, so it goes onto the House, which doesn’t like it, but none-the-less, they deem it acceptable, and the Democrats are able to swing a few votes.
      
      NOW, because of the 6 year term in which the Senate is largely Democratic, they complain, because they think it’s everybody’s right to get high on whatever drug. So, they send it back to a Committee to change it in their favor. This continues for the next couple years, until the House is back in Democratic hands, and the Committee is more influentially Democratic, so they finally pass the bill WITH legalization of Marijuana.
      
      And so, the President signs the bill, and everything is happy.
      
      But wait! A couple presidents ago, we had a bat-shit crazy Conservative Tea-Party-er named Michael Bachwoman as president! She, during her 8 year two term presidency, had to replace John Roberts, because he fell ill to say, cancer, and had to resign. The other people? They’re getting pretty old. I think the oldest at the MOMENT is 78 years old. So, during Bachwomans presidency, she “stacks” the court with Republican Judges, because she had a full republican house and senate when she started her presidency.
      
      Oh no! The Supreme Justices have deemed the newly passed Bill on the Legalization of Marijuana unconstitutional! Why, I’m not sure, but they did! In fact, they completely kill the bill.
      
      Now, six years later, and an unsuccessful attempt at passing a bill… we have gotten completely nowhere. So, what now? Oh, President Dickface, with his newly backed, completely fucked-up and unconstitutional Czars, decides to go start taking down websites that advocate the banning of Marijuana permanently. Why? Because he fucking can. But, because the court nor legislative branch have any jurisdiction in the Constitution itself over the Czars, they really can’t do anything. The Czars are responsibly.
      
      So, now we have an out of control president, a bi-polar congress, and a stacked court. All because “democracy” built it that way.
      
      It MAY have worked like that in the 1920s, or even in the 1800s, but it doesn’t now. There needs to be governmental reform that gives the people more power.
      
      Make a general assemble of the people via the Internet. The Internet is Gods greatest blessing to us all, really. I can communicate with someone 3000 miles away in a matter of seconds. It’s amazing. So why can’t we all show our opinion via the internet?
      
      Ohhhh, that’s right, because DEMOCRACY doesn’t believe in Freedom of Speech, such as WikiLeaks now-a-days. Remember, it’s DEMOCRACY that brought us this!
      
      As George W. Bush once said:
      
      “Freedom should have limits!” (you should to the Texas accent with it too. It makes it even funnier!)
      
      (Also, while I realize that there may be a few errors in specifics in the committees, order of operations in the government, the basis is generally the same, and don’t get specific with me. There are not real HUGE problems with this)
    - http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns.org/ mavigozler
      
      Actually it’s always a mistake to judge the people of a nation by its government, and especially if it’s not really a democratic nation–meaning a government established by the people, rather than a government established by plutocratic and aristocratic (corporate) interests, as has ALWAYS been the case in the 230 years that the U.S. government has been in existence.
  - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
    
    I hardly would call it a personal vendetta considering that terrorists we are pursuing in Afghanistan have struck all over the globe. From New York to London. There were even a few failed attacks in Australia. If it weren’t for our intelligence services working with yours, innocent people might have lost their lives.
    - Dang_Nabbit
      
      If it wasn’t for Empire-building invaders like America and the UK (now in Libya, for fucks sake, will it never end!), we probably wouldn’t have as many terrorists to start with.
      
      Who do you think trained and armed these ‘terrorists’? Green Peace?
      
      Hello? Anybody in…?
    - Guest
      
      LOL
      
      You live in a fantasy world. The real terrorists are the ones you think that are your friends: Governments.
    - Anonymous
      
      Well, for those with short memories, or are just too young to remember, Terrorist have been with us long before America started doing things abroad. That said, I would love our oil companies to be shipped off the planet.
      
      The bottom line though is that most governments, the U.S. included (“America is one of two continents, do not represent the real populace. Neither do most corporations, again look at the MPAA and who they represent. Do yourselves a favor and don’t listen to the media who make all Americans look like mindless rich pricks. The majority of us, including myself, are hard working, getting by, trying to support our families kind of folks.
    - Abc
      
      and the American Neo Cons had nothing to do with starting the problems in Afghanistan or terrorism the 1st place, and I assume you don’t understand how the problem is being grossly over exaggerated or why it’s being exaggerated? you need to watch the power of nightmares by Prof Adam Curtis (free and legal to DL if I remember correctly +1 Bittorrent), tho I suspect it would go over your head, as I suspect you are far to brainwashed to even understand what the “war on terrorism” is really all about, as you certainly would appear to be somewhat brainwashed regarding filesharing.
    - Noah C.
      
      Ehhhh. I for once, and I can’t believe it, understand and SOMEWHAT agree what Jack Murdock is saying.
      
      Although, I also disagree in some aspects. “Dang_Nabbit” below me has a very good point that without American and the West, we probably wouldn’t have terrorists as we know them today.
      
      But, Australia owes it’s existence to “Empire-Building Invaders,” so chill the fuck out down there.
      
      And, Copyright wouldn’t be a problem if Western Society didn’t exist.
      
      So, lets deal with the fact that the Cold War created Al-Qaeda in the 80s, and both the United States AND Russia are in fact responsible. But lets not forget we DID fucking save all your asses in World War II. Don’t give me that bullshit that “We could’ve won!” because you fucking couldn’t have. That being said, Jack has a valid point in that both countries have valid interests in attacking terrorist organizations across the globe. I don’t think that’s exactly what we’re talking about here, as the main deal is the extortion of Australia by the United States government pressing for the 3-Strikes deal along with AFACT and a now upcoming mandatory censorship law, “the great barrier reef,” etc. etc. I admit, the United States government is pretty much a big douchebag when it comes to that.
      
      That being said, we’re talking about Copyright and Reserved Rights, not Afghanistan, Terrorists, etc.
  - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
    
    I hardly would call it a personal vendetta considering that terrorists we are pursuing in Afghanistan have struck all over the globe. From New York to London. There were even a few failed attacks in Australia. If it weren’t for our intelligence services working with yours, innocent people might have lost their lives.
  - http://www.facebook.com/jhborden James H Borden
    
    Oh well us Canadians are a better ally and we actually lead the file sharing world with all our notable pirates and releases and our government listens to the people. Long live the free world and the free people and if you dont like it in your country as beautiful as it is we have lot’s of igloo’s for rent up here and all the maple syrup and bacon you can eat. eh ;)
    - Joshua Knowles
      
      Ride me sideways! Sounds like Heaven…I’m emigrating tomorrow!
    - IDIOCRACY
      
      You forgot to mention that one needs to be quick for accuiring an iglo, due to greenhouse effect or other similair natural fenomena, those iglos will not be there much longer.
      And turning north west territoria (I think it was) into a wasteland by day-mining the sand-oil is no good contibution to the global enviroment either.
      So think real good before you emigrate to Canada.
  - monkeyslap
    
    Also……It is NOT the fault of the American people as to why the MPAA is doing this. I hate people like you who label ever citizen in a county as a bad person simply because of what the fat ass corporations/government is doing. And don’t give me that shit “well you voted for them” because in the end in any election in any country, all politicians are lying sacks of shit that will say/do anything to get elected. And once in office they bend us over and stick it to us and there’s nothing we can do about it legally or civilly. It is hard to have an elected official removed from office. If you want to blame anyone, blame the likes of the MPAA and other corporations that use money to lobby and influence legislation and elected officials for allowing it to happen.
    
    P.S. Australia……..Have a nice day. Peace out.
  - StevO
    
    “You live in a democracy don’t you? Who voted for the Government? ”
    
    So your governement cant even fight for itself? I mean come on, why do you allow yours to be dominated by ours?
    Im all about peace bro, but your taking it out on us citizens. It doesnt matter who we vote for when they all are doing the same thing. Please dont hammer on the rest of us. I dont blame you for your governments shortcomings.
    - The Movement
      
      “You live in a democracy don’t you? Who voted for the Government? ”
      
      First of all this is a lie. Candidates are chosen by Corporationss that fund their campaigns. THEY DECIDE the ones YOU CAN VOTE.
      
      Zeitgeist.
    - Bruce Almighty
      
      Agreed with the The Movement! Its true that we live in a democracy but we still can’t choose the candidates we wish. There are a limited number of candidates and if they are all sell outs, there’s nothing much to do but vote for one of them and hope for the best.
      
      Sometimes the candidates have the good intentions at heart when they stand for election but even then the president is hardly a one man army. When you are surrounded my corrupt ministers and lobbyists, they tend to drag you down with them as well. Its really quite complex. We know there are a few good politicians in the parliament but they alone can do nothing when the majority are corrupted and we don’t have to power to choose the members of parliament.
    - Bruce Almighty
      
      Agreed with the The Movement! Its true that we live in a democracy but we still can’t choose the candidates we wish. There are a limited number of candidates and if they are all sell outs, there’s nothing much to do but vote for one of them and hope for the best.
      
      Sometimes the candidates have the good intentions at heart when they stand for election but even then the president is hardly a one man army. When you are surrounded my corrupt ministers and lobbyists, they tend to drag you down with them as well. Its really quite complex. We know there are a few good politicians in the parliament but they alone can do nothing when the majority are corrupted and we don’t have to power to choose the members of parliament.
  - Joeytanker
    
    My Brother, That is not American’s doing that. That is our corrupt government of which we have completely lost control of. They are as hideous in our eyes as they are yours, and we hope for a day soon, where that will be different. Please understand that. The American people are in no way associated with any of the madness that is going on. We are victims as well. Corporate Assholes are seizing control of our planet. All of us are not among the “unaware”. Peace…
  - Noah C.
    
    Also, I might add that America’s worst enemy is itself.
- J Steele
  
  English motherfucker, do you speak it?
  
  “nonetheless internet” – what on earth is that supposed to mean?
  
  The article states “and the lady in question has received no apology from her service provider.”
  Which most would take to mean that the porn loving old bat does indeed have the internet.
  - gae
    
    nonetheless: in spite of that; nevertheless:
  - gae
    
    nonetheless: in spite of that; nevertheless:
KvK.

I bet that old lady is laughing it up, having actually uploaded the movie and gotten away with it completely by using the oldest card in the book
- IDIOCRACY
  
  LOL! Supervilla-ANUS
  - IDIOCRACY
    
    someone stole my nickname … see above
- zucchini bread
  
  The “oldest” card in the book. I see what you did there.
Cosmic_mind

This is what questions laws involving the internet/computers and how evidence is used against the suspects, as in cases that can be made accurate as most data on the internet and on computers is constantly modified and never can be used as like a “blood stained-knife” in a murder trial. Why prosecute someone with evidence that can be modified by “anything” and with almost anyway as well. Computer and internet data is no fingerprint of a human hand.
Sketch

what do you call 20,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?

A Good Start.
MAFIAAFire

John Steele is one of the biggest douches… even if he is surrounded by other douches like Randazza.

Now off to download “Amateur Allure: Kim”… for research purposes.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YLR2S66PQPPLXYTFUELQHNNQOA asi
  
  Please don’t show us what cums out of your research. :-p
- http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
  
  Tell us your findings. We might go and download it for the lulz.. And for further research ;)
  - MAFIAAFire
    
    Hey guys!
    
    What my research has found, there indeed is a Kim torrent
    http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6161807
    
    and a lot more:
    http://thepiratebay.org/user/free-culture/
    
    Did not download anything of course, that would be “copyright infringement”.
    Linking is part of the internet and I make no excuse for that.
    
    The only reason I posted the above is because it’s obvious the company that is behind “amateur allure” has hired these shysters (like Steele), they are directly benefiting by the sorrows of those poor people wrongly accused but who know no better and pay up.
    
    I wish I could spread the above links to everyone who wants to join that site to teach those scumbags a lesson.
    
    (Cautionary note: We are in Sweden, we don’t give a damn about being tracked by these shysters (are behind a VPN anyway), but if you are in the US and do join the swarm/s, you know some of these Swarms are being watched so… a VPN is advised. Check TF for VPN recommendations.)
    - Anonymous
      
      tanks for the link; but more importantly – is it worth the time to download?
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Cavelord

Man. I’m in the wrong business. Do you understand? Every IP number in your swarm is a potential money making scheme. 100 peer number written down, get new ones….100 more….make up 100 more…hey, they aren’t in my specific file download, but they are downloading Britney Spear’s new album, so they can’t all be that good, add their IP numbers too….hey you look rich, what’s your IP number? Just another number we need to hide…now if you get caught padding the IP pool, ain’t like no IP police are out there to get you, just say it was a mistake…yeah, thats it.
- StevO
  
  i downloaded Britnay SpearZ just cuz that looked cool and I wanted to see what it actually was.
http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

You REALLY gotta admire this 70-year-old though. Wouldn’t YOU want her to be YOUR Grannie too? I’m in Scotland but want to adopt this valiant and courageous person for fighting off the copywrong trolls in her own way.

She MUST be voted this years HERO planet-wide (by TIME or whoever).

******* ******* ******* ******* ******* ******* ******* ******* ******* *******

As for the evil tactics deployed by Steelme, Randazzwipe and similar trolls and their “industry masters”, including the trolling USA Office of the Trade Representative as they stomp around our World smahing technology and improvements to communications like a bunch of jack-booted Fascists – all I can say is, “your time is over”.

Adpat or die.
Sharing IS caring.
Simple as that.
- Piratescum
  
  it seems like you wouldn’t mind sucking this granny’s juice
  - http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
    
    Bye Bye perv …
  - shane
    
    You’re a virgin aren’t you?
    - Piratescum
      
      no, but i can already tell you both are.
anon

Now it is time for this lady to sue Steele and the other leeches for libel since they in effect destroyed her character and accused her of things she did not do.
Jack

In the ACS:Law case when the spreadsheets of IPs from the MediaCat Phase 3 scam were examined it was found that some 24% of IPs which had been collected and accused of infringing copyright could not even be recognised and linked to an account holder by the ISPs.
I wonder what the “UNKNOWN” rate for collected IP addresses in the mass law suits in the US are ? We know the lawyers tell the judges that they have a foolproof system of collecting and identifying IPs, but thanks to Andrew Crossley & MediaCAT we know that’s not the truth.
Zig

Come on Merkins… get your [class] act[ion] together and fight this as a collective. If one granny can make them do a U-turn, then god knows what a couple of hundred thousand of you can do! Make them understand that there are criminal penalties for extortion racketeering.
guest

In the last few articles about bittorrent lawsuits it keeps being stated 200,000 people have been sued in the past year. I don’t think that’s accurate this all started with uscg. and the farcry case back in 2008. I believe so 200,000 cases is a lot less impressive when it took three years and a lot of those cases have been dropped or dismissed.
Anonymous

Sounds like a good time for a defamation of character and mental stress and anguish suit. I don’t usually agree with suing over those except in extreme cases but someone needs to teach these sorry bastards a lesson.
FuzzyDuck

She should sue for attempted extortion, which is what Steele was trying to do.

He should be tried for attempted extortion, conspiracy to attempt extortion, abuse of public resources. All his belongings used in this committing this crime should be seized by ICE as property used for committing or attempting to commit a crime. In particular his computers. All his documents should also be seized for the purpose of discovery of the methods used by his office that result in accusing innocent people.
Hfgdgf

LOL the truth is that the average age of members on private torrent sites is 60.
- shane
  
  Lie. How would anyone know?
  - Hfgdgf
    
    I’m on several sites, and the most active users are usually retired.
Hfgdgf

LOL the truth is that the average age of members on private torrent sites is 60.
Anonymous

as already stated, an IP address does not identify a person. this goes to show that whatever methods being used by whichever law firm is drastically flawed. all these scumbags are doing is trying to extort money from people. Steele has completely screwed up here and is just trying to squirm his way out of being taken to court himself. as for finding the ‘real’ person that committed this dastardly crime, BULLSHIT! he is no nearer finding out who it was, if there indeed was anyone, and never will do so using simply an IP. he is full of crap!
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Anonymous

She should counter-sue them.
- Notme
  
  “She should counter-sue them.”
  
  No. She should kill them all.
  - Anonymous
    
    Oh, right.. almost forgot – the good ol’ grandma with a shotgun. or something.
ayman

Shouldn’t there be a counter suit?
Anonymous

I’d like to point out one little juicy tidbit everyone seems to have forgotten.

Steele claimed his system cost like $250,000 or something stupid and it was IMPOSSIBLE for it to ever be wrong.

Ummm you’ll notice he was wrong here.
It matters very much to find out if this was ISP error or not… if it was not ISP error that means Steele’s magic system was WRONG.
I think any Judge learning that this perfect system generated a flaw should stop the cases dead until the system can be reviewed independently and vetted as being completely accurate…. we’ll miss you Steele…
say buhbye…
blue sky

My grandmother still buys her porn at The Lion’s Den, she does not know how to work a computer at all.
http://www.facebook.com/mwonch Michael Wonch

Britain and the US have very little real differences between respective legal ethics laws. I can see, quite soon, the same happening to the famous Mr. Steele that happened to ACS:Law – the sooner, the better!
http://twitter.com/AlyssaBlindy Alyssa Blindy

Whether she downloaded the movie or not, doesn’t matter. What matters is, she could probably sue John Robber, I mean Steal’s law firm for slander. I would…
Foff

She was nothing more than a lying horny old bitch! I think if a few of these shysters had their collective nuts cut off they would think twice before suing. Make them s c r e w the old lady to collect their fees!!!!!! LOL LOL LOL
http://otester.myopenid.com/ PiRat

I don’t think they did find the “real” person, it was just a lie escape the bad publicity.
Notme

“the law firm claims it has now found the ‘real’ infringer. ”

Ya! right! What pack of liars!

We are going to kill them all and this is not a lie!
Piratescum

grandma should thank her lucky stars that she gets to live for another day
- BillyB
  
  Yeah? Let’s see how much longer the extortionist lawyer scum get to live a life of luxury…any free hackers with time enough to spare to crack this shyster lawyer?
  
  Grannies and kids this week…what’s next week quadriplegics?
- BillyB
  
  Yeah? Let’s see how much longer the extortionist lawyer scum get to live a life of luxury…any free hackers with time enough to spare to crack this shyster lawyer?
  
  Grannies and kids this week…what’s next week quadriplegics?
  - Anonymous
    
    Already on it…
    
    (in other news, guy requesting some of his nerval cords to be broken to then download this pr0n in the US for bad publicity)
    
    (just say it if it offends you – trolls not allowed obviously)
Okarin

If we don’t deal with this now, soon little, uh, Gambol here won’t be able to get a nickel for his grandma. -Joker
gae

Maybe steele will be so kind as to provide some answers about exactly how the ‘mistake’ occured in the first place?
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Professional Stroker

Hey, what kind of stroke lotion do you guys use?

I have found refined olive oil to provide adequate viscosity and reasonable absorption while reducing drag during intense acceleration.

DON’T use 100% extra virgin olive oil. It makes your crotch smell like a salad. Besides, that s*** is expensive.

Staying with our granny theme, I think I will download some gilf porn.

Any granny lovers out there? Let me hear you shout “Woo Hoo.”

Let the stroking commence!….cummence :-)
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I think it is time for some counter suits. If enough are filed, Hollywood will go broke along with their law firms. Also, start filing ethics complaints in the millions that will diffently overwelm the system.
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I think it is time for some counter suits. If enough are filed, Hollywood will go broke along with their law firms. Also, start filing ethics complaints in the millions that will diffently overwelm the system.
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Grandma needs to sue.
Anonymous

not exactly a ringing endorsement: http://www.imagepost.com/videos/amateur-allure-kim/
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