# Poetic justice.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 12, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poetic-justice/578032 "2011-04-12T01:03:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poetic-justice/578032/1 "2011-04-12T01:03:36Z")

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We are the legal men  
We are the troll men  
Suing together  
Briefcase filled with straw. Alas!  
Our dried voices, when  
We threaten together  
Are quiet and meaningless  
As trolls with no class  
All nonsense and plumes of bad gas  
In the wrong forum  
Threats without force, bluff without standing,  
Paralysed force, motions without motion;  
Those who have looked  
With knowing eyes, to law’s lesser Kingdom   
Remember us - if at all - not as lost  
Violent souls, but only   
As the legal men   
The troll men.

[_Non liquet_]

Between the business plan  
And the settlement  
Between the motion  
And the act  
Stands His Honor  
For Mine is the Profits

[_Non liquet_?]

[This is the way the case ends  
This is the way the case ends  
This is the way the case ends  
Not with a bang, but with a whimper](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/judge-to-copyright-troll-your-business-model-isnt-my-problem.ars)

“They told me you had gone totally insane, and that [your business plans were unsound.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_troll)”  
“Are [my](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righthaven_LLC) plans unsound?”  
“[I don’t see any business at all, sir.](http://www.inquisitr.com/101426/copyright-trolling-law-firm-righthaven-loses-pivotal-case/)”