Auction of Copyright Troll Righthaven's Website Underway

Tootech sends this quote from Vegas Inc: "The online auction of the righthaven.com website domain name got underway Monday, with bidders having until Jan. 6 to submit offers. A judge has authorized a receiver to auction the intellectual property of Las Vegas-based Righthaven LLC, the newspaper copyright infringement lawsuit filer. The auction is aimed at raising money to cover part of Righthaven's $63,720 debt to a man who defeated Righthaven in court. The man, Wayne Hoehn, and his attorneys defeated Righthaven when a judge threw out Righthaven's lawsuit against him over Hoehn's unauthorized post on a sports betting website message board of a Las Vegas Review-Journal column by columnist and former publisher Sherman Frederick. Hoehn was a defendant in one of Righthaven's 275 lawsuits filed since March 2010."

What?

[toastar]

Why on earth would anyone want to help pay down those ass-holes debt?

Re:I'm sure this is a silly question...

[thegarbz]

Depends if you have a product or a company called RightHaven. Just because it belonged to one company doesn't mean there isn't some other company very interested in the name. The most classic example of this would be www.nissan.com [nissan.com] which any reasonably person would think took you to the website of the car manufacturer.

Re:What?

[hairyfish]

It may differ in your local territory, but here when you go into receivership, it is no longer your debt. You lose everything to the receiver who then attempts to salvage some money for the debtors of the company. Mr Hoehn is owed $63 grand. He might be lucky to see 20% of that, so any money raised is his (and any other debtors, not RightHaven's.

Re:I'm sure this is a silly question...

[vodevil]

I'd buy it just for the lolz, if I could find the damn link where you can actually post an offer.

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