While not everyone agrees with the EFF's position on various issues, the group is still pretty widely respected in legal circles. So it seems a bit odd that a copyright troll has apparently decided to spend an entire filing trying to block the EFF from filing an amicus brief ("friend of the court" brief) in one of its cases, attacking the EFF directly as some sort of "radical" and "quasi-anarchist" group. The lawsuit involves Prenda Law, who took over the cases formerly brought by divorce lawyer-turned-copyright troll John Steele. I hadn't been following it closely, but sometime last year, Steele apparently handed his practice off to Prenda - though there have been some questions over whether or not Steele is still involved and to the legality of the transfers.

Either way, Prenda clearly does not like the EFF and basically spends the entire filing insulting the organization based on next to nothing. A few examples:

* The EFF is opposed to any effective enforcement and litigation of intellectual property law, which seeks a platform by which to advance its agenda.

* The EFF is an anti-intellectual property group, which appears in the present action merely in order to obstruct or delay Plaintiff's copyright infringement litigation.

* The EFF's crusade continues, despite their lack of success, not out of any concern for proper application of the law.

* The EFF Is a Radical Special-Interest Group Generally Opposed to Any Effective Or Efficient Enforcement of Intellectual Property Law

* This mission is radical, quasi-anarchist, and intrinsically opposed to any effective enforcement of intellectual property rights.

* their history of advocating lawlessness on the Internet suggests that their purpose is not to help this Court administer justice, but to hinder and obstruct the process

It also focuses on the fact that the EFF failed in one of its attempts to question whether or not joining together so many defendants was proper - in a case presided over by a judge who had only recently joined the bench, after a stint as an RIAA lobbyist. It ignores that the EFF has won its argument that joinder is improper many more times than it has lost. Hopefully the court sees through this.