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calculated to be j ust below the cost of a bare-bones defense. For these indivi duals, resistance is futile; most reluctantly pay rather than have their names associated with illegally downloading porn. So now, copyright laws originally designed to compensate starving artists allow, starving attorneys in this electronic-media era to plunder the cit izenry. Plaintiffs do have a right to assert their intellectual-property rights, so long as they do it right. But Plaintiffs’ filing of cases using th e same boilerplate com plaint against dozens of d efendants raised the Court’s alert. It was when the Co urt realized Plaintiffs engaged their cloak of shell companies and fraud that the Court went to battlestations.

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PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The Court issued its February 7, 2013 Order to Show Cause re Sanctions to allow counsel, Brett Gibbs, to explain why he ignored the Court’s discovery-stay Order, filed complaints without reasonable investigation, and defrauded the Court by asserting a copyri ght assign ment secu red with a stol en identi ty. (ECF N o. 48.) As evidence materialized, it turned out that Gibbs was just a redshirt. Gibbs’s behavior in the porno-trolling collective was controlled by several attorneys, un der whom other indiv iduals also took thei r orders. Because it was conceivable that these attorneys (and others) were culpable for Gibbs’s conduct, the Court ordered these parties to appear. The following additional parties were ordered to appear: (a) John Steele, of Steele Hansmeier PLLC, Prenda Law, Inc., and/or Livewire Holdings LLC; (b) Paul Hansmeier, of Steele Hansmeier PLLC and/or Livewire Holdings LLC; (c) Paul Duffy, of Prenda Law, Inc.; (d) Angela Van Den Hemel, of Prenda Law, Inc.; (e) Mark Lutz, of Prenda Law, Inc., AF Holdings LLC, and/or Ingenuity 13 LLC; (f) Alan Cooper, of AF Holdings LLC; (g) Peter Hansemeier, of 6881 Forensics, LLC; (h) Prenda Law, Inc.; (i) Livewire Holdings LLC; (j) Steele Hansmeier PLLC; (k) AF Holdings LLC; (l) Ingenuity 13 LLC; (m) 6881 Forensics, LLC; and (n) Alan Cooper,