New York federal judge Gary Brown has already made it clear that he's not a fan of copyright trolls. In May, he handed down a scathing order decrying the "blizzard" of copyright lawsuits by porn companies and putting in place safeguards to prevent further abuses.

One of those safeguards was that ISPs were supposed to provide defendants' contact information to the court, rather than to the plaintiff Malibu Media. That way, the court could advise defendants of their legal rights and help them find counsel before the plaintiffs had an opportunity to harass them into paying a four-figure settlement.

But Malibu, publisher of cinematic masterpieces such as Veronica Wet Orgasm and Gangbanged, apparently ignored the judge and sent Cablevision a subpoena requesting that the defendant's contact information be sent directly to Malibu. When Judge Brown found out about it, he wasn't happy.

"Less than three months after addressing concerns about potentially abusive litigation tactics by plaintiffs in these actions, this Court is again confronted with indicia of improper conduct by plaintiffs’ counsel," Brown wrote in a Tuesday order. "Plaintiffs’ counsel apparently ignored, or tried to circumvent, the very safeguards the undersigned put in place to help prevent unfair litigation tactics while permitting plaintiffs to pursue their claims."

The judge writes that "in a box designated 'Place,' counsel listed the 'Kotzker Law Group,' along with his office address, as the place for producing the documents. Nowhere in the subpoena does counsel advise Cablevision that the documents should, pursuant to the Order, be produced only to the Court."

Luckily, Cablevision's own lawyers were more careful to follow the rules. Cablevision's lawyers read Judge Brown's previous order and noticed that Malibu hadn't followed his instructions. They refused to provide the defendants' contact information to Malibu and reported the incident to the judge.

Judge Brown wrote that in his previous order, he "expressed, in no uncertain terms, this Court’s concerns about the conduct of this litigation going forward, particularly in light of the serious questions about plaintiffs ability to properly identify defendants based solely upon their IP addresses. As such, it is astonishing that counsel failed to observe the precautions established in the Order."

Still, Judge Brown is giving Malibu's lawyers a chance to explain themselves before he decides how to deal with their behavior. He's giving Malibu's lawyers two weeks to file an explanation with the court, after which he will decide what sanctions are called for.