Spamigation
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Spamigation
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Spamigation is mass litigation conducted to intimidate large numbers of people. The term was coined in 2006 by Brad Templeton of the Electronic Frontier Foundation to explain the tactics of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which files large numbers of lawsuits against individuals for file sharing, and DirecTV, which once filed large numbers of lawsuits against users of smart cards. Because of the costs of mounting a legal defense, almost all defendants in these cases tend to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamigation
date created:
2006-08-25T13:26:25Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T20:15:22Z
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