The word you're looking for is extortion.

From: Tim Bray

I dunno, Mark, their approach seems pretty uniformly sleazy, and a lot
of people are cheering over the series of well-deserved legal black
eyes they've received in recent weeks.  -T

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Miserere wrote:
>
>>Mark might enjoy this tale of woe:
>>
>>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/business/media/03righthaven.html
>
> NPR did a story on Righthaven last week. They seem to walk a zig-zag
> line oscillating between legitimate prosecution of real copyright
> infringers and opportunistic abuse of fair-use infringers who don't
> have the resources to fight back.

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