Judge Denies Copyright Troll Malibu Media's Request For A Default Judgment

Judge Denies Copyright Troll Malibu Media's Request For A Default Judgment

4 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200813/17240445108/judge-denies-copyright-troll-malibu-medias-request-default-judgment.shtml

Lately so many of our copyright trolling stories have been about Richard Liebowitz or Mathew Higbee, but we shouldn't forget about Malibu Media, which is still out there doing Malibu Media things. The latest, to come out of a court in Connecticut is that the infamous copyright troll has had a default judgment request denied. This is exceptionally rare.

Default judgments are what you get when the other side doesn't even bother to show up. They're almost always granted as a matter of course (though, collecting on a default judgment is not always so easy). However, in this case US District Court judge Jeffrey Meyer isn't buying what Malibu Media is selling. Judge Meyer jumps right in and points out how unfair it is to blame the ISP account holder for actions that may have been done by someone else: