Righthaven.com Domain Sells For $3,300
from the not-that-much dept
Andrew Allemann alerts us to the news that at the close of the Righthaven.com domain auction, the domain has sold for... $3,300. That's not going to do much to help pay off the attorney fees owed to Marc Randazza. Now we just have to wait to find out who bought it and what they're going to do with it.
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Rimon Law
So their heart seems to be in the right place. though i am not sure about: 'our grandparents didn’t “pirate” copyrighted works because they couldn’t'. would like to bet that they lent / shared copies of books for their file server (bookcase) to friends and family and thus 'deprived content creators of sales'.
I wonder why they bough the domain?
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Justice
I wonder if they had used all that money and effort to service the under served customers (Pirates), if we would not be talking about them being the next big thing instead of circling the bowl?
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It wasn't undeserved customers who were the problem but a publisher drunk on the idea that everyone owes him money for seeing any portion of an article.
They never filed a notice as required by law and always went immediately to suing.
They are a prime example of what happens when you have no checks in the system to make sure "copyright holders" (the rights in these cases were ruled to be sham transfers of just the right to sue, and never disclosed the money flowing back to the actual rights holder) are held to the letter of the law.
Now after the delusional responses to the courts ruling against them and calling them out for procedural errors, they have more than likely hidden all of the money and are hoping they can still win cases.
If you Google the name now some of the top results are for lawfirms looking for clients for lawsuits, possibly class action suits, against Righthaven.
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Might I suggest
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It could serve up insanely hilarious (and hilarious insane) excuses for any situation, including getting out of work and explaining your failure to pay child support. Bill collectors calling you up at all hours demanding payment? Click on Steve's tie for a choice bit of Righthaven wisdom:
Due to pending appeals and the stay of certain active litigation matters, my operating capital is being utilized to service my monthly operating expenses, hence I am unable to allocate the funds you require.
Your neighbors upset that you took their summer vacation road trip as an open invitation to swim in their pool and read their mail?
There’s no question, we’ve blazed some trails here. We understand there are some differences of opinion as to whether that provides us with standing.
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another excuse for missing work:
"Sorry my lawyer advised me that meeting was tomorrow"
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But perhaps I was unhelpfully unclear about whose comment I was commenting on hmm's comment works but A guy's doesn't.
Hmm's was a real * Bazinga *
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Try troubleshooting it here:
http://sarcasmmeter.net/
Or, maybe you just didn't realize that Righthaven
repeatedly demanded its victims surrender their domain.
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The deck is rigged to favor the rightsholders, and the people they target are often not educated about how the system is supposed to work.
The publisher didn't need a marketing firm, he needed a clue firm. If people were posting snippets of their articles, a nicely written email asking for a link back to their site (if there wasn't one) would have gone much further. Louis CK showed how far a polite request can go, and the benefits that come from a little kindness as your first step.
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Rimon Law is the receiver appointed by the court to seize and auction off Righthaven's assets. They are the seller, not the buyer.
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SOPA/PIPA = WAR
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New Havens
To become a piracy site would be most enjoyable like placing your own flag in an enemy's headquarters. The second place option would have to be an information site about how to battle copyright trolls.
What would be most depressing is if another copyright troll or law business purchased this domain.
At least we can be thankful that it did not sell for much but for some minor domain name if was still as serious price.
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REALLY.
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righthavened [rahyt-hey-vuhn-ed]
—verb
1. to be particularly inept, usually in the context of legal proceedings: The Department of Justice really righthavened the Dajaz1 case.
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$3,300? They overpaid, IMO
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Why, god? WHY? Cross-stitch Lemon Party?!?
I was searching for something witty to do with lemons... The internets have beaten me at my own game o.o
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