How To Steal The Empire State Building
Consumerist points us to a story about how The Daily News newspaper in New York was able to quickly forge some documents and get the deed to the Empire State Building handed over, no questions asked....
View ArticlePeter Sunde Brings Criminal Charges Against BREIN, Claims They Falsified...
You may remember, back in July, that a Dutch court made an odd ruling against The Pirate Bay at the behest of BREIN, the local anti-piracy group. Now, there was a lot of things odd about the case....
View ArticleForging Science: The Story Of How Famed Painting Authenticator Likely Duped...
A couple years ago, on a whim, knowing nothing at all about the movie, I rented the documentary Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?. It's a really amazing documentary. Compelling, well-done and...
View ArticleLobbyists Forge Letters To Pretend There's A 'Grassroots' Interest In...
This story actually comes from back in November, but I just found out about it due to a recent Planet Money episode all about the regulatory scramble to rewrite our banking rules. The whole podcast is...
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Paul Ceglia To Facebook: I Didn't Forge A Contract, You Did!
We just wrote about how, during the discovery process in the lawsuit in which Paul Ceglia claims he only recently discovered a contract giving him more than 50% of Facebook, Facebook found an original...
View ArticleDef Leppard Covers Its Own Songs With 'Forgeries' To Fight Back Against...
As we recently noted, there are compulsory licenses for doing cover song recordings, such that you don't need to ask for permission. It appears that the band Def Leppard is now taking advantage of...
View ArticleForging Science: The Story Of How Famed Painting Authenticator Likely Duped...
A couple years ago, on a whim, knowing nothing at all about the movie, I rented the documentary Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?. It’s a really amazing documentary. Compelling, well-done and really...
View ArticleLobbyists Forge Letters To Pretend There's A 'Grassroots' Interest In...
This story actually comes from back in November, but I just found out about it due to a recent Planet Money episode all about the regulatory scramble to rewrite our banking rules. The whole podcast is...
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Paul Ceglia To Facebook: I Didn't Forge A Contract, You Did!
We just wrote about how, during the discovery process in the lawsuit in which Paul Ceglia claims he only recently discovered a contract giving him more than 50% of Facebook, Facebook found an original...
View ArticleDef Leppard Covers Its Own Songs With 'Forgeries' To Fight Back Against...
As we recently noted, there are compulsory licenses for doing cover song recordings, such that you don’t need to ask for permission. It appears that the band Def Leppard is now taking advantage of that...
View ArticleReport From The Court Room On Latest Prenda Hearing In Minnesota: Another...
Lawyer Nancy Sims attended the latest Prenda hearing today in Minnesota and agreed to let us post her recap of what happened in the courtroom. We’ll have a more complete analysis of what happened...
View ArticlePrenda Soap Opera: Steele Contradicts His Own Previous Claims, Lutz...
We already posted Nancy Sims’ account of what happened in the latest Prenda hearing in Minnesota, but wanted to follow it up with some analysis, because there was a fair bit of interesting stuff in...
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Timeshare Company Sundance Vacations Accused Of Forging Court Order To Delete...
We’ve seen all sorts of bizarre and questionable attempts by companies to silence criticism or content they just don’t like. Bogus copyright, trademark and defamation claims are pretty standard these...
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Team Prenda Has A Very Bad Day In Court… And You Can Watch It All
It has been almost exactly two years since Judge Otis Wright released his blistering opinion of Prenda Law and the guys behind it, John Steele, Paul Hansmeier and Paul Duffy (“Team Prenda”). There have...
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If You're Going To Forge A Fake Court Order To Delete Search Results, Maybe...
Eugene Volokh, just recently teamed up with Paul Levy to track down who was behind a scam abusing the court system with forged or fraudulent court documents to get questionable or fake court orders to...
View ArticleSomeone Impersonated New Jersey's Attorney General To Demand Cloudflare...
Buckle in, folks. Here’s a crazy one involving 3D printed guns, angry lawsuits and an apparently forged letter from the New Jersey Attorney General. Over the past few years, we’ve been highlighting a...
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