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Copyright Bully Deletes Own Anti-Bully Rant

It’s always amusing when people are hoist by their own petard.

Copyright Troll lawyer John Steele tried to avoid this fate by doing a little editing of past entries on his corporate site.

Just over 4 years ago, Steele wrote an article about an opposing “bully” counsel in a family law case. However, you now can only read his complaint with some difficulty.

As noted by Fightcopyrighttrolls, Steele has deleted the post since the start of June. Luckily, the page still exists in Google’s cache, as shown here.

The cached copy, and as it is now - click to enlarge

He does note early on that “I suppose I can see how being an ass might get you somewhere if you are up against a pro se party who has no idea of what is happening, or maybe a timid transaction attorney…”

This could explain why in recent years, he has decided to adopt that persona?

The probable reason for deletion is the last paragraph, which harms his bottom line.

“Standing up to a bully, whether some blowhard attorney, or an 8th grader feels good. Try it sometime.”

Good advice for anyone who has had one of these bullies try and shake them down.

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  • Guest

    For people that wand read the post but google hase delete here is the post.
    [quote]
    Even Attorneys Can be Bullies

    Posted on June 13, 2008 by John Steele

    I got the opportunity to experience a real, honest to god bully today
    in the form of an opposing counsel in a case I have.  I suppose I can
    see how being an ass might get you somewhere if you are up against a pro
    se party who has no idea of what is happening, or
    maybe a timid transaction attorney that somehow found themselves in a
    divorce case.  But another attorney whom you will have to deal with
    again and again?

    I am not sure why some Family Law attorneys purposely try to build up
    their mystique as a jerk.  The attorney I am thinking of scares other
    experienced attorneys, who do not like dealing with the person.  On the
    other hand, I enjoy it.  I put a lot more effort into beating them, and
    take satisfaction out of stopping their antics.  Why?  Not really sure. 
    I think it has something to do with going through middle school and
    being subjected to the evil whims of 8th graders.  Now I get to make up
    for that abuse so long ago (and get paid to do it).  Plus its in the
    best interests of your client to prevent the other side from
    steamrolling you.

    Standing up to a bully, whether some blowhard attorney, or an 8th grader feels good.Try it sometime.
    [/quote]

  • http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

    Lol steele is the biggest joke crock of shit lawyer i ever laid eyes on.

  • http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/ SJD

    Thanks, Ben :) When I first discovered this Steele’s blog post half a year ago, it was the time when the first counter lawsuit against Steele and his gang was filed, and I thought that the line you’ve emphasized would be a perfect epigraph to my post about this event (
    http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/2012/01/31/defendant-strikes-back-sues-hard-drive-productions-and-steeles-extortion-outfit/ ).

    Since the link is broken now, I edited it to point to this article, which is even more entertaining. 

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  • Andrew Lee

    ROFL!!!! What a fucking moron HAHA!! He would have been better off to just leave the page intact. Now it’s getting plenty of unwanted attention!! 

    John Steele 1
    John Steele 0

    Goddamn I love self ownage rofl!

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  • Zebra52

    Priceless.

  • Me

    where the fuck this guy live? someone post his full info soem of the chicago people would be happy to send a welcomign party over to this jackass place ocne we start tar and featherign these fuckers theyll be too scared to go out and bully people

    whats next John?  we gonna be jailed for copyright violations for having sex as some people genes copyrighted thi shit make me angry and want to start capping politicians the government shoudl feare and respect its citizens choices the people have the power till the people stand up and take the power the back we all going to be imprisoned in this false allusion of freedom and wealth stand the fuck up people and see this isnt just about movies and music downloading its so much bigger wake the fuck up and start takign our rights back buy guns and fuck these peoples world up until they give up and GTFO our lives founding fathers have gotta be angry as fuck in there graves right now

    • Guest

      He lives in Miami Beach. Paul Duffy – his goon and official Prenda boss lives in Chicago. Someone doxed him on pastebin a while ago

  • Guest

    “Once it’s on the Internet, it stays there forever.”

  • Sketch

    ive said it a million times…….what do you call 1,000,000,000,000,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?  A GOOD START  the tree of liberty needs to be well watered with the blood of revolution, lets start by cutting the throats of every single miserable shyster on the planet……bleed em out cook em up and eat em.

  • Chameleon87

    Uhm.. is it just me or is that article still up, but on a different URL?

    http://familylawlifeline.com/2010/08/12/even-attorneys-can-be-bullies/ 

    • http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/ SJD

      Ha! Seems that you are right – Steele (or whoever administers this site) seemingly cleared all the archives prior to 2008 — still hard to understand why. 

      Well, I have to admit the blooper, although unintentional one. And nonetheless, this Steele’s post is so full of irony that it is still good that it was widely publicized.

      We shouldn’t feel too bad though: John Steele (during his divorce practice) reportedly filed pages of sealed document as an exhibit to his motion, tremendously damaging the opposing party, and than said “oops, my honest mistake!” This guys is a monster, otherwise I would feel an urge to apologize: I feel nothing.

  • McCheezits

    I copied the statement and put it on PasteBay for later usage.

    http://pastebay.net/1065941

  • Decimus

    He was against bullying until he realized how much fun it was.

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