Lightspeed Media Corporation + Prenda Law

Recently, The Pietz Law Firm has been contacted by an alarming number of people being targeted by Arizona pornography company Lightspeed Media Corporation, and its lawyers Brett Gibbs and John Steele of Prenda Law, Inc. The premise of the abusive lawsuits by Lightspeed Media and Prenda Law is to exploit the courts’s subpoena power and extort “settlements” from Internet users across the country by bringing meritless lawsuits against individuals who fear to pursue the claims in public court. In other words, the heart of this case is this: to pay Prenda, or else be “named” in a lawsuit accusing you of viewing hardcore pornography.

These deceptive tactics employed in the Lightspeed Media lawsuits and other Prenda Law lawsuits have come under fire and federal courts are becoming increasingly skeptical of these coercive copyright infringement lawsuits intended only to exploit settlements from the named defendants. As a result, Lightspeed Media and Prenda Law have now refocused their efforts on suing individual defendants in various state courts, for claims that are preempted under the Copyright Act, in hopes of receiving more favorable treatment in state courts.

If you think you may be involved in either the Lightspeed Media Corporation lawsuit or any other Prenda Law lawsuit, or have received a Lightspeed Media subpoena or Prenda Law subpoena, please give The Pietz Law Firm a call. Having worked with many people in your same situation, we understand what you are going through and our firm is dedicated to helping you fight back to protect your rights.

For more information and to see how The Pietz Law Firm is helping others to fight back, please visit the Lightspeed Password Hacking Lawsuits page at www.fightcopyrighttrolls.com. You can also check out the Demurrer and Motion to Require Plaintiff to Furnish Undertaking recently filed by The Pietz Law Firm on behalf of its client and lead defendant sued by Lightspeed Media.

Since Prenda is now filing its lawsuits in state courts, it is a little harder to track them all nationally.  However, Prenda itself does post a list, which it generally uses to intimidate people, of its various lawsuits nationwide.  Here is that list (some of the cases are for Lightspeed, many are for other pornographers Prenda represents):

Robert Olson – 1:12-cv-00685-ML-LDA (RI)

Joshua Demelo – 1:12-cv-11851-MBB (MA)

Alec Chrzanowski – 1:12-cv-11842 (MA)

Maxime St. Louis – 4:12-cv-11797-TSH (MA)

Hajime Okuda – 1:12-cv-11850-MLW (MA)

John Grenier – 1:12-cv-11843 (MA)

Jason Martinez – 1:12-cv-11848-PBS (MA)

Mayank Patel – 2:12-cv-06210 (NJ)

Evans Papantouros – 3:12-cv-06013-MAS-TJB (NJ)

Frederick C. Highfield – 1:12-cv-06033-JEI-AMD (NJ)

Richard Lovejoy – cv-12-196 (ME)

Thomas Lemay – cv-12-197 (ME)

Lorenzo Belmontes, Jr. – 2:12-cv-01067-KJM-CKD (CA)

Shainal Nagar – 1:12-cv-03578-TWT (GA)

David Green, Jr. – 1:12-cv-03557-JOF (GA)

Howard Robinson – 1:12-cv-03542-ODE (GA)

Lorenzo Belmontes, Jr – 2:12-cv-0167-KJM-CKD (CA)

Taurence Lopez – 4:12-cv-0741-DCB (AZ)

James Forth – 4:12-cv-00740-CKJ (AZ)

Charlie Burrell – 4:12-cv-00739-FRZ (AZ)

Michael Tekala – 2:12-cv-02157-GMS (AZ)

Zeke Lundstrum – 2:12-cv-02142-SRB (AZ)

Eric Lemnitzer – 2:12-cv-02141-FJM (AZ)

Carl Strickland – 2:12-cv-02140-ROS (AZ)

Andres Chen – 2:12-cv-02151-MEA (AZ)

Jerry Aurilia – 2:12-cv-02139-SPL (AZ)

Kevin Antrosiglio – 2:12-cv-02138-GMS (AZ)

Adam Nichols – 2:12-cv-02156-MHB (AZ)

Ngoc Nguyen – 2:12-cv-02154-FJM (AZ)

Purnell Phillips – 2:12-cv-02137-MEA (AZ)

Jeff Montgomery – 2:12-cv-02153-ROS (AZ)

Brian Trottier – 2:12-cv-02136-GMS (AZ)

Erick Guevara – 2:12-cv-02152-JAT (AZ)

Matthew Michuta – 2:12-cv-02143-DGC (AZ)

Robert Richardson – 2:12-cv-02148-PGR (AZ)

Andrew Simoneschi – 2:12-cv-02147-PGR (AZ)

Taylor Velasco – 2:12-cv-02146-FJM (AZ)

Douglas Buchanan – 2:12-cv-02145-DKD (AZ)

David Harris – 2:12-dv-02144-MHB (AZ)

Walter Szarek – 2:12-cv-2134-SPL (AZ)

John Song – 2:12-cv-02132-GMS (AZ)

Steven Laizure – 2:12-cv-02131-DGC (AZ)

Christopher Heggum – 2:12-cv-02130-LOA (AZ)

Rick Friend – 2:12-cv-02125-NVM (AZ)

AJ Chubbuck – 2:12-cv-02124-DGC (AZ)

Andrew Gutierrez – 2:12-cv-02127-SPL (AZ)

Rim Boltong – 1:12-cv-03482-MHS (GA)

Christopher Eachus – 1:12-cv-06032-JBS-AMD (NJ)

Lazaro Ana Contreras – 1:12-cv-06031-RMB-AMD (NJ)

Nicholas Bossard – 1:12-cv-01101 (MI)

Michael Pacheco – 1:12-cv-01102 (MI)

Javier Ubieta – 1:12-cv-22155-CMA (FL)

Erik Diep – 4:12-cv-14459-DPH-RSW (MI)

Nigel Sookdeo – 1:12-cv-22146-CMA (FL)

Vaden Cook – 5:12-cv-14455-SFC-DRG (MI)

James Szewczyk – 2:12-cv-14453-MAG-LJM (MI)

Allen Keehn – 2:12-cv-JAC-MKM (MI)

Joseph Jenkins – 2:12-cv-14450-DML-RSW (MI)

David Olivo – 3:12-cv-01403 (CT)

Elliott Olivas – 3:12-cv-01401-JBA (CT)

Kevin Nevins – 3:12-cv-01404-SRU (CT)

Craig Fenn – 3:12-cv-01402-VLB (CT)

Jonathan J. Abarca – 3:12-cv-01400-SRU (CT)

Udish Sundarrajan – 2:12-cv-01078-GEB-GGH (CA)

Matthew Ciccone – 2:12-cv-14442-GAD-LJM (MI)

Shehzad Lakdawala – 2:12-cv-14444-GCS-MKM (MI)

Jason Hinds – 2:12-cv-14445-AJT-MJH (MI)

Michael Murray – 2:12-cv-14443-GAD-LJM (MI)

Matthew Baldwin – 1:12-cv-11841 (MA)

Michael Nissensohn – 1:12-cv-00687-M-DLM (RI)

Timothy Trafford – 1:12-CV-00686-S-DLM (RI)

Norbert Weitendorf – 12 -CV-07826 (IL)

Dewey Wilson – CV-2012-900893 (AL)

Adam Sekora – CV-2012-053194 (AZ)

World Timbers – CV-2012-053230 (AZ)

Reza Shemira – 37-2012-00100384 (CA)

Jesse Nason – CV-2012-0057950 (CA)

Samuel Teitelbaum – CV-2011-05628-JCS (CA)

Joe Vasquez – CV-2011-03080-MCE-KJN (CA)

Steve Polan – CV-2011-03073-WBS-KJN (CA)

Jeff Goldberg – CV-2011-03074-KJM-CKD (CA)

Jason Angle – CV-2011-03077-JAM-KJN (CA)

Sebastian Lopez – CV-2012-03114 (FL)

Zachary Boudreaux – CV-2012CA-01679 (FL)

Jacob McCullough – CV-2012-21100-JAL (FL)

Tuan Nguyen – CV-2012-01685-MSS-MAP (FL)

Paul Oppold – CV-2012-01686-MSS-AEP (FL)

Lucas Shashek – CV-12-L-927 (IL)

Ronald Trivisonno – CV-2012-L-000531 (IL)

Tom Berry – CV-12-L-95 (IL)

Michael Allison – CV-2012-L-000530 (IL)

Klint Christensen – CV-2011-08338 (IL)

Edward Neese – CV-2011-08340 (IL)

Hyung Kim – CV-2011-08343 (IL)

Robert Reynolds – CV-2012-01104 (IL)

Jeremy Lozano – CV-2012-00812 (MI)

Ray Dawkins – CV-2012-13436-AJT-LJM (MI)

Bryan Johnson II – CV-2012-13434-JAC-MJH (MI)

Adam Grote – CI-12-2625 (NE)

Austin Cunningham – C-133,846 (TX)

John Botson – CV-2012-02048 (CA)

Josh Hatfield – CV-2012-02049 (CA)

Soukha Phimpasouk – CV-2011-03826 (CA)

Bobby Rammos – CV-2012-04232 (CA)

Felix Naylor – CV-2012-03566 (CA)

Thang Ngo – CV-2012-02416-WHA (CA)

David Trinh – CV-2012-02393-CRB (CA)

Jason Hawk – CV-2012-04236 (IL)

Kenneth Payne – CV-2012-04234 (IL)

Daniel Frankfort – CV-2012-03571 (IL)

Ali Yang – CV-2012-01079 (CA)

Cory Phan – CV-2012-01076 (CA)

Darryl Lessere – CV-22156-UU (CA)