„AF Holdings could have found out where the IP addresses at issue were probably located simply by using a geo-location service that costs about $8 per thousand addresses,“ said EFF Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry. „But the company didn‘t do that, because its doesn‘t want to know. Following the rules would make its job harder, requiring it to file lawsuits across the country against thousands of individuals rather than suing all Does at once. Thousands of lawsuits just doesn‘t fit the copyright troll business model.“

Today‘s brief is the latest in EFF‘s efforts to stop copyright trolls – content owners and lawyers who team up to extract settlements from thousands of defendants at a time.