Last September, a federal judge in Texas blasted the "staggering chutzpah" of P2P attorney Evan Stone, who had issued subpoenas to Internet services providers in a porn film case without the court's permission. Stone was hit with $10,000 in sanctions after lawyers from Public Citizen and the EFF brought the matter to the judge's attention. But there was a problem: Stone didn't pay.

Two days after he was supposed to have coughed up to $10,000, Stone at last filed a motion to stay the sanctions against him. Yesterday, the judge overseeing the case made clear that the sanctions would stay and that, in addition, Stone needs to pay an additional $22,000 to Public Citizen and EFF to cover attorneys' fees. Should he not pay, the $32,000 total will increase by $500 a day until he does.

"Stone egregiously overstepped his boundaries and invaded the Doe Defendants' privacy without authorization," wrote Judge David Godbey. "His actions in this case demonstrate that today he remains undeterred. The public has an interest in being free from unlawful invasions of privacy by a rogue attorney."

As if the money weren't bad enough, Stone was (again) ordered to file a copy of the sanctions against him in every state and federal case in which he is an attorney. Though Stone complained this would be bad for business and that he hadn't acted in bad faith, the judge retorted, "It may be the case, as Stone argues, that filing the Sanctions Order will result in damage to his professional goodwill. But it is Stone's actions, and not the resulting Sanctions Order, that do damage to his professional goodwill."