{"id":13395,"date":"2014-05-28T21:54:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13395"},"modified":"2014-05-28T21:54:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:54:34","slug":"crushing-blow-for-copyright-trolls-appeals-court-halts-af-holdings-extortion-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13395","title":{"rendered":"Crushing Blow for Copyright Trolls: Appeals Court Halts AF Holdings&#8217; Extortion Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This same coalition has fought for years in courts around the country to explain how the trolls were abusing the legal process to extort settlements from unsuspecting John Does.\u00a0 While several district courts have agreed, this is the first time a federal appeals court has weighed in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/press\/releases\/crushing-blow-copyright-trolls-appeals-court-halts-af-holdings-extortion-scheme\">Crushing Blow for Copyright Trolls: Appeals Court Halts AF Holdings&#8217; Extortion Scheme | Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Once a troll gets the names it&#8217;s looking for, then it already has what it needs to put its shakedown scheme in motion,&#8221; EFF Staff Attorney Mitch Stoltz said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This same coalition has fought for years in courts around the country to explain how the trolls were abusing the legal process to extort settlements from unsuspecting John Does.\u00a0 While several district courts have agreed, this is the first time &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1006,431,1135,875],"class_list":["post-13395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-copyright-trolls","tag-eff","tag-extortion","tag-litigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13396,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions\/13396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}