Big Law Lawyer Turned Porn IP Enforcer Loses After Rare Defense

May 10, 2021, 8:23 PM UTC

A pornographer represented by a former Fox Rothschild partner paid nearly $48,000 in opposing counsel fees and costs after a defendant spent years fighting the claim he’d stolen dozens of videos.

The partner, Lincoln Bandlow, abruptly departed his old law firm, one of the 100 largest in the country, in May 2019 after he filed hundreds of lawsuits on behalf of porn production company Strike 3 Holdings LLC that alleged rampant theft of its movies by internet users.

The type of mass copyright infringement litigation pursued by Bandlow and Strike 3 has gained a reputation as “copyright trolling,” ...

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