{"id":7402,"date":"2010-11-30T22:46:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T06:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2010-11-30T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T06:46:32","slug":"torrent-users-sue-us-copyright-group-for-fraud-and-extortion-techspot-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/11\/torrent-users-sue-us-copyright-group-for-fraud-and-extortion-techspot-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrent users sue US Copyright Group for fraud and extortion &#8211; TechSpot News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"file-sharing.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2010\/11\/file-sharing.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"file-sharing.jpg\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/41341-torrent-users-sue-us-copyright-group-for-fraud-and-extortion.html\" >Torrent users sue US Copyright Group for fraud and extortion &#8211; TechSpot News<\/a>: &#8220;Dmitriy Shirokov is suing a Washington law firm that sent threatening letters to thousands of alleged movie downloaders, accusing the firm of fraud and extortion. He filed the 96-page lawsuit, which argues that lawyers at Dunlap, Grubb &amp; Weaver made a business of threatening people with expensive litigation and fines unless they pay &#8216;settlement offers&#8217; of $1,500 to $2,500, in the US District Court of Massachusetts. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torrent users sue US Copyright Group for fraud and extortion &#8211; TechSpot News: &#8220;Dmitriy Shirokov is suing a Washington law firm that sent threatening letters to thousands of alleged movie downloaders, accusing the firm of fraud and extortion. He filed the 96-page lawsuit, which argues that lawyers at Dunlap, Grubb &amp; Weaver made a business &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/11\/torrent-users-sue-us-copyright-group-for-fraud-and-extortion-techspot-news\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Torrent users sue US Copyright Group for fraud and extortion &#8211; TechSpot News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1Vo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7403,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/7403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}