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THREAD: John Steele, the mastermind of Prenda Law, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison, per DOJ.

documentcloud.org/documents/6186…
Prenda Law is the insane story about (now disbarred) lawyers who between 2011 and 2014 made porn films, uploaded them to Pirate Bay and other similar sites, then sued people who pirated those movies—unless they agreed to a $3,000 settlement.

Steele and his cohorts made over $6M.
March 2017 DOJ press release: justice.gov/opa/pr/attorne…

@arstechnica coverage at the time: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@arstechnica Most of @arstechnica’s coverage of Prenda Law was deftly done by @joemullin (with occasional assists by yours truly, @binarybits, and @NateXAnderson).

@binarybits began covering it back in August 2012: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@arstechnica @joemullin @binarybits @NateXAnderson One of my favorite moments was the time that Prenda lawyers said that @EFF has “the same goals” as “terrorist group Wikileaks.”

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@arstechnica @joemullin @binarybits @NateXAnderson @EFF Fun fact: @joemullin now works for @eff!

In any case, the 2012 - 2019 @arstechnica coverage is collected here. Enjoy.

arstechnica.com/series/whos-be…

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@arstechnica @joemullin @binarybits @NateXAnderson @EFF Oh man, I totally forgot that I emailed once with Steele back in June 2013. He told me that he had "never uploaded a torrent in my life, I have never instructed anyone to do so.”

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@arstechnica @joemullin @binarybits @NateXAnderson @EFF Shout out to @mrdelvan!
@arstechnica @joemullin @binarybits @NateXAnderson @EFF @MrDelvan Also this @aurich graphic was legendary at @arstechnica, from this May 2013 story—our homage to US District Judge Otis Wright.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@arstechnica @joemullin @binarybits @NateXAnderson @EFF @MrDelvan @aurich Here’s my 500 word summary of the latest development in #PrendaLaw:

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
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Since I began at @NBCNews about 2 mo ago, a substantial portion of my time has been taken up working on this story, with @oliviasolon.

The result: "Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show"

@NBCNews @oliviasolon I had reported some on Six4Three, Pikinis, and Ted Kramer before, back at @arstechnica.

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And my mini-scoop, about the only other lawsuit like Six4Three v. Facebook:

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@NBCNews @oliviasolon @arstechnica That left me with a basic question: why doesn’t Ted Kramer have any allies?

After @oliviasolon and I began digging around, we eventually were connected to the legendary @dcampbell_iptv, who shared with us thousands of never-before-seen pages from that lawsuit.
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THREAD:

Some of my own fav @arstechnica stories from 2018:

1) Why cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off your autonomous car

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@arstechnica 2) Here’s how to use Kalanickspeak at your next jam sesh, bro

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@arstechnica 3) Monkey-selfie lawsuit finally ends: Court affirms adorable macaque can’t sue

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Cyrus Farivar
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Per a new report, Oakland has an equity score of 33.5. (Highly inequitable!)

Or, as the report puts it: “substantial room for improvement."

documentcloud.org/documents/4757…
"We found that for Prime construction and professional services contracts, 66.7% of African American contractors received contracts under $100,000, which was 3.42 times as often as White contractors (19.5%)."
"Citywide, one in ten youth were neither working nor in school (10.3%). African American youth were the most likely to be disconnected (14.8%), followed closely by Latino youth (13.2%)."
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