08.03.2013 - 06:57 [ techdirt ]

Prenda Law Issues Subpoena For IP Addresses Of Every Visitor To Critic Blogs For The Past Two Years

This is rather incredible. We already wrote about Prenda Law‘s series of defamation lawsuits against commenters on two key blogs that have been instrumental in exposing their shenanigans: FightCopyrightTrolls and DieTrollDie. While John Steele has dismissed his claim, the other two suits are still moving forward as far as I know. And now it‘s come out that Prenda Law‘s Paul Duffy sent a ridiculously broad subpoena to WordPress demanding every IP address of every visitor who has visited either site since the beginning of 2011.