Internet justice

[Raistlin]

Sometimes, I really love the internet.

Marc Randazza is one of my favorite attorneys, and this is just another reason why.

Quick summary: Is Anybody Down? is a sketchy website that posts nude pictures of women without their consent, along with personal identifying information (address, phone, FB profile, etc.). This makes it more likely that the nude pictures will show up in Google searches for their names.

Another website, Takedown Lawyer, specializes in sending takedown requests from women to Is Anybody Down? for a flat fee. It promises a 100% success rate.

Here’s the hitch: Is Anybody Down? advertises for Takedown Lawyer, and the domains are registered by the same person. The “lawyer” for Takedown Lawyer (as in, the owner of Is Anybody Down? as well) is also not a lawyer. Basically the whole thing is a thinly-disguised scam where the owner posts the images plus identifying information, and then demands money in order to take the pictures and information down.

Randazza recently got onto this scam, and a couple of days ago launched a crusade to shut down Is Anybody Down?. Another one of my favorite lawyers, Ken White, quickly joined in. Others have also joined in the effort or at least spread the story.

The result has been hilarious; you should read at least Ken’s summary for most of the details. Takedown Lawyer has since been changed to Takedown Hammer, due to the whole not-actually-a-lawyer thing, and the real owner, Craig Brittain, has resorted to bluster and raving and a clear misunderstanding of anything law-related whenever someone tries to talk to him. It’s great.

What is your favorite example of internet justice?

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

What is your favorite example of internet justice?

When trolls/rude people on our forum get a swift kick in their ban hammers.

(SPOILER)See what I did there.

The scale seems smaller when compared to the OP, but it's a personal favorite example of mine.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I basically love anything that 4chan does that's actually nice.

[The Man]

That is hilarious.

I was going to say what NCG said. Not everything 4chan does is good, but they've done some amazing stuff.

[Raistlin]

It just keeps getting funnier. Craig Brittain has now registered Troll Down (according to a whois lookup), a new blog devoted to fighting "copyright trolls." In its first real post, Brittain claims that Randazza is not actually working on his own, but is instead working for Big Porno in a big-money conspiracy to have him shut down.

EDIT: He also posted a comment on Ken's blog, Popehat, calling him "Dopehat." This guy is a true genius.

EDIT2: Oh yeah, and I forgot to link to IAD's initial public response, which is a screed against Randazza and Obama. Yes, it's Obama's fault that Brittain resorted to IAD.

[Bunny]

Please tell me he actually referred to is as Big Porno.

Oh god he did that is the best ever.

[Hollycat]

Why isn't this kind of thing being investigated by the police?

Nvm just finished reading it.
funny.

[Raistlin]

Newsflash: Charles Carreon offers to represent Craig Brittain.

[The Man]

Come now, he's going to clone dinosaurs and he's not going to clone a velociraptor? That's just doing it wrong.

[Bunny]

Why the smurf do we not have a World's Most Battrout Insane Lawyer reality show?

It'd be bananas.

[Quindiana Jones]

Carreon is the stupid one, right?

[Raistlin]

For those of you who don't know who Charles Carreon is. He is a legendary lawyer.

Also, the best tweet about these latest developments: "When you do #BigPornLaw, you do it Pro Boner or not at all. #NoFluffersRequired"

[Quindiana Jones]

Yup, that's the one; the stupid one. xD

[Citizen Bleys]

We get it, WesLY, you're an atheist. You don't need to post conclusive proof ( the existence of Is Anybody Down?) that God does not exist.

[The Man]

Wait, that's the same Charles Carreon? He's serious? Goddamn, my faith in humanity has lowered even further.