Righthaven's Colorado Suits Thrown Out

Copyright troll Righthaven has not filed any new lawsuits in Nevada in two months after most of its Nevada suits were dismissed by Judge John Hunt, who has called Righthaven “a law firm….masquerading as a company.”

Now a judge in Colorado has ordered all of Righthaven’s cases there to be dismissed, Ars Technica reports.

Righthaven’s business model involves suing bloggers and other websites who reuse its newspaper clients’ content without permission. The newspapers transfer copyright to Righthaven, which takes care of the messy legal proceedings, and then the paper and Righthaven split the proceeds.

That’s how it’s supposed to work.

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