You know it's tough out there for a P2P lawyer when even some random, anonymous, non-lawyer defendant is the more convincing party. That strange scenario unfolded yesterday in Illinois, where divorce-attorney-turned-porn-copyright-lawyer John Steele had his entire case against 300 defendants thrown out completely....
The judge let the case creak along for another two weeks, until one of the anonymous defendants in the case wrote in with an amateur "motion to quash" Steele's subpoenas. The judge immediately used that amateur motion as the ground for a total dismissal of the case, saying that it reminded him of why "the court was correct the first time around." - Nate Anderson, ars technica
