Could this be the end of the copy right troll? If so, two in-house lawyers were nearly sacrificial lambs in the case that dealt Righthaven a body blow.

Righthaven, LLC, trolls the Web for articles taken from newspapers or magazines, and then seeks the copyright on the articles. Once these are secured, Righthaven’s founder, Steven Gibson (a partner at Dickinson & Wright in Las Vegas), sues the Web site that carried the postings.