Roberto Escobar, brother and former accountant to drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, has sent a letter to Netflix demanding a billion dollars (not a joke) and the right to review all future episodes of the streaming company’s hit show Narcos, to make sure that he and his family are portrayed accurately.
Source: Pablo Escobar’s Brother Demands One Billion Dollars From Netflix Over Narcos | Techdirt
On Sunday, the families of several terrorist victims sued Facebook under an American anti-terrorism law. The victims died in multiple terrorist attacks in Israel in 2015 and 2016, and the families are seeking at least $1 billion in damages.
The plaintiffs allege that the social networking giant is liable as it provides “material support” to Hamas—which the United States government considers a terrorist group—by allowing its leaders and followers to openly use the service.
Source: Families: Hamas on Facebook, so firm must pay $1B after terror deaths | Ars Technica
The makers of the Oscar-winning movie Dallas Buyers Club are facing monetary sanctions for the dubious tactics used in their ongoing crackdown on BitTorrent pirates. In California, a local resident is arguing that the filmmakers lack any evidence other than an IP-address, while requesting a monetary penalty of $36,000 for their “extortion” tactics.
Source: Dallas Buyers Club Face Court Sanctions Over Piracy “Extortion” Tactics – TorrentFreak
US Federal Judge William H. Alsup Monday was a busy day for Judge William Haskell Alsup. I already reported that on that day the judge stayed plaintiff’s subpoena pending a clarification of geoloca…
Beehive state sends in the dogs to tackle porno public health crisis
Source: Utah sheriffs blow $10,000 on smut-sniffing Labrador • The Register
Remember this image?That’s the meme that was (and still is) passed around on social media (rather gently) mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for looking kinda like Gollum from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Or, not even Gollum, but his nicer alter ego, Smeagol. Last we wrote about this, a Turkish court was assembling an expert panel to determine if that image is insulting to Erdogan. Since then, of course, we’ve learned just how insanely thin-skinned Erdogan is, having filed an average of over 100 actions against people for insulting him per month (how does he get any actual work done?).
M. Keith Lipscomb Today Malibu Media (a litigation shell of a hardcore “barely legal” pornography producer X-Art), represented by its new counsel, Pillar Law Group, filed a lawsuit in C…
Unlike the rest of us, the Supreme Court thinks there are too many restrictions on money in politics, not too few.
Source: Supreme Court Eliminates Political Corruption! (By Defining It Out of Existence)
““[I]t does appear the Early Termination Fee (ETF) applied to your Comcast Business account was done in error,” reads the email, confirming what Robert had already been told, but at least this was in writing, so Comcast has to do something, right? Nope. “I understand you’re claiming that someone advised you Comcast would send a refund check for the last payment that was debited but this is generally not the way we handle these situations,” continues the condescending email. “We generally only issue a refund check for a disconnected account with a credit balance leftover. For your situation, you would have to dispute the payment with your bank.”
Source: Comcast Incorrectly Bills Customer $1,775, Tells Him To Figure It Out With His Bank | Techdirt
Gen. Philip Breedlove plotted in private to overcome Obama’s reluctance to escalate military tensions with Russia over the war in Ukraine in 2014, according to apparently hacked emails.
Source: Hacked Emails Reveal NATO General Plotting Against Obama on Russia Policy
