Mystery Buyer (Skinner?) Wins Auction for Copyright Troll’s Domain (Righthaven)

[The Straight Story]

Mystery Buyer Wins Auction for Copyright Troll’s Domain

The online domain for Righthaven — a copyright-troll law firm that failed in its attempt to make money for newspapers by suing people for sharing stories online — has sold at auction for $3,300 to help satisfy the Las Vegas company’s debts, but the winning bidder has yet to come forward.

Righthaven.com’s online auction opened on Dec. 26 for $100 and ended Friday at $3,300. The auction is intended to help recoup $63,000 in legal fees Righthaven owes after it lost a case in which a federal judge said that reposting an entire news article in an online forum was fair use — an issue Righthaven has appealed.

The list of possible buyers isn’t known but one could imagine a civil liberties group loving to claim it as a trophy or perhaps more likely, a domain squatter guessing that all the negative links to the domain name might be turned into a little cash.

The domain auction was to help pay Las Vegas lawyer Marc Randazza for successfully defending Vietnam veteran Wayne Hoen against a Righthaven copyright lawsuit that sought large damages for posting the entirety of a Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial to a small online message board. Randazza isn’t saying who bought the domain.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/righthaven-domain-sold/

[freshwest]

1. That would be poetic justice.

[T S Justly]

2. It would be great if it's Skinner's, now. Imagine calling it Skinner's Right(wing)Haven ...

And having the content be all the cards and letters from DU's "fans" from Freekerville.

Another thought, maybe they who are expected got it. That would be all right, too.

[TroglodyteScholar]

3. Kick!