Anyone have links to copyright lawyers discussing this? The few I follow online haven't picked up on it. I can't imagine that selling your financial interest in some legal proceeding generally voids your actionable claim and that this must be something special to do with copyright.
This judge has judged the case on it's real merits, that it's all about extorsion, maybe it's allowed in the US to extort people but in most European coutries it's a nono.