Prenda Law Firm Update

Updating a prior post about those erstwhile attorneys the Prenda Law Firm:  apparently, a recent Comcast document shows that John Steele uploaded the porn files to BitTorrent upon which it sought to extract payment from unsuspecting downloaders.  In other words, Prenda would upload the very files it sought to assert copyright protection for in order to share them with its targets.  The porn was the bait, BitTorrent was the hook, and Prenda was the fisherman.  If this sounds fishy to you, then it should.  By uploading the copyrighted material in order to "share" it, Prenda would essentially be impliedly licensing the material to those it threatened to sue for infringement.