The Straits Times Interactive has not one but TWO articles regarding Odex today. The first is mostly a summary of the happenings thus far along with a Justice’s opinion that Odex had not been careful enough in their dealings with the courts.

The second is a little more interesting:

A GROUP of irate anime downloaders are trying to rally other downloaders into suing Odex, a local distributor of Japanese anime.

They say they want back the money they paid Odex in settlement for their having allegedly downloaded the Japanese cartoons.

In other words, those who paid Odex money in a response to letters threatening to sue (or even received such letters) should now sue Odex over the threats, according to “FukitsuNaDouki,” a user who is putting together a petition.

The Straits Times apparently talked to four lawyers, three of whom thought that such a case would have some merit. I DO think that threatening letters is a kind of underhanded tactic. So we’ll see if this turns out to be the next step in the long-running Odex saga.