Prenda Law ordered to pay $261K to defendants

Key quote from the article:<p>&quot;Unlike other awards, Hansmeier, Steele and Duffy are __personally liable__ for this award.&quot; (emphasis added)<p>So they can&#x27;t simply close up the firm and walk away from the carcass. Their own personal funds will disappear, which is actually the proper punishment for this type of action on their part.

&gt;The Prenda &quot;porn trolls&quot; were really just an annoyance to the ISPs until they sued the companies; that put AT&amp;T and Comcast in a situation where &quot;they will be strongly motivated to win the case and ensure that no one tries this tactic again,&quot; wrote Lee.<p>If they hadn&#x27;t sued Comcast and Bell, would the judgment be different?

Very happy to see these cases be increasingly either laughed out of court or used to punish trolls.

It looks like after they are bankrupted, they will be going to jail.

i&#x27;ve been so sick of hearing about these guys &quot;gaming&quot; the justice system and getting away with it. perhaps there is hope.

There is hope yet for the patent system in America.