Prenda Law

We actually had a similar case in Germany. The law office Urmann & Collegen sent out collection letters to a lot of people for allegedly violating copyright by watching a porn movie. As this didn't work out well they threatened to publicise a 'list of foes', making the names of the alleged violators public.

Luckily, this was prevented, but things got even more absurd when it turned out that the method used to find the violators was probably violating german law (they claimed to have a secret method of getting the IP without cooperation of either the user or the platform).

Links (in German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asE5f8K-0xE https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/lg-essen-pornopranger-von-...