Craigslist Griefer Ordered To Pay Up Over Both Copyright And Privacy Violations
from the revenge-on-the-griefer dept
A few years back, there was a lot of attention paid to Jason Fortuny, a "griefer,' who posted a fake ad to Craigslist, and then published all of the responses he got publicly. One of the people who responded sued, and Slashdot alerts us to the news that a court has ordered a default judgment for him to pay $74,000. What's interesting is that the largest part of this, $35,001, is actually for copyright infringement. Since part of the ad Fortuny put up requested photos, the guy is claiming (correctly) that he owns the copyright on the photo he took, and Fortuny violated his copyright in publishing it. Another $5,000 is for privacy violations, and the remaining about is to cover attorney and court fees.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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What's a 'griefer'?
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Forget the technical definition. These are people who cheat at games because they can't stand to lose, thinking (in their head mostly) they will be world recognized as the greatest player on earth.
If anything, they're the most pathetic of all game players worldwide and fuel the reason for Jack Thompson's campaign about violence and video games.
Because these types of gamers are the ones who get violent when losing, usually throwing controllers or attacking people due to their lack of true gaming skills.
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Griefers are the people who play outside the rules in order to annoy the people inside the rules.
The guy who throws grenades into friendly spawn areas, or who ascts as a part of your team until the final boss, then leaves the game.
I acknowledge that your comment might be some kind of ironic comment-griefing, but like all griefing before and after it, it wasn't funny.
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define: griefer
That should get you and answer.
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Since when did violations of our personal, god given rights amount to 1/6th of a government given copyright? The original owner of the photo probably didn't even register it with the copyright office. Not that I disagree with the punishment, I just think those numbers should be reversed.
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..and that doesn't scare the shit out of you?
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Sounds like some hippy conspiracy theory but I'm finding its sadly true. They're the ones with the resources to push what they want and politicians rarely "do the right thing".
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What do we learn from this?
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default judgment
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The reason for the copyright charge is simple, he did not have the right to republish the photo. at least according to the judge, who by the way still has to justify his decisions in his written or oral decision.
One other thing, the probable reason for the disparity between the amounts awarded, was that the judge was using the amounts that followed the various statutes regarding the amount of claims, and such.
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"Griefer", not "grifter".
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Craigslist need a better way to alert fake ad
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Please note the IMPORTANT point here
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Jason Fortuny Is Doomed
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