Scumbag Of The Week
DC attorney Mike Meier once worked with EFF to fight copyright trolls, whom he called "bill collectors for the movie industry...extorting money" -- now he's joined the trolls as a professional "bill collector," and now he wants evidence of his past life censored and is prepared to send outrageously bogus copyright threats to get his way.
Two anti-troll websites, FightCopyrightTrolls (http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/) and ExtortionLetter (http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/getty-images-letter-forum/copyright-law-group-settlement-demand-letter-%28attorney-mike-meier%29/msg18608#msg18608), both put up posts documenting Meier's road-to-Damascus conversion. In response, Meier sent letters to the sites' domain registrars, claiming that they had a duty to confiscate his critics' domains under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- the DMCA requires such letters are signed under penalty of perjury. He claimed that the excerpts that his critics had posted from his old and new practices' websites, along with their commentary, infringed his copyright. He also claimed that they were defamatory and libelous.
