Warner Bros. Copyright Clowns Take Five Spoons of Their Own
MedicineS  According to Hotfile, a guy by the name of Michael
Bentkover and his cronies are copyright dicks, crooks and liars.
Not with those words, but that's the executive summary of their
copyright fraud lawsuit against Warner Brothers.  Bentkover is
Manager of Anti-Piracy Internet Operations at Warner Brothers
and Hotfile says he and his company repeatedly committed
copyright fraud. Apparently, they may have a good case. Here's
the story:  When Warner and four other major motion picture
studios contacted Hotfile about pirates using their service to
copy their movies, Hotfile gave them a Special Rightsholder
Account (SRA), a tool designed to flag and delete any content
they owned. With the tool, Warner could easily search for their
copyrighted material and destroy it. That's alright. It's their
stuff.  But instead of just doing that, they went around living
up to their douchebag legend and erased everything they wanted,
which included material tha