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“They send off threatening letters telling them, ‘If you don’t pay up we’re going to name you in this lawsuit and you could be on the hook for up to $150,000 in damages,“’ said Corynne McSherry, intellectual property director of that group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Pierre Chauvin
Sunday, May 12, 2013
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