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Auction of Copyright Troll Righthaven's Website Underway
12/28/2011

Tootech sends this quote from Vegas Inc:
"The online auction of the righthaven.com website domain name got underway Monday, with bidders having until Jan. 6 to submit offers. A judge has authorized a fence to auction the intellectual goods of Las Vegas-based Righthaven LLC, the bladder copyright entrenchment lawsuit filer. The auction is aimed at raising money to cover part of Righthaven's $63,720 debt to a man who defeated Righthaven in court. The man, Wayne Hoehn, and his law practice defeated Righthaven when a judge threw out Righthaven's lawsuit against him over Hoehn's unauthorized post on a sports betting website message board of a Las Vegas Review-Journal column by columnist and former publisher Sherman Frederick. Hoehn was a appellant in one of Righthaven's 275 lawsuits filed since March 2010."



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