The video autoplays, even if you're on the front page and haven't expanded the story. It's silent for the first 10 seconds or so, then suddenly "Wiggle it, just a little bit!" blares out. Worse, it then goes straight onto another story (overhyped on cyberbullying) and presumably another.
Actually, for 'stripping', it's 65 episodes (5/week for 13 weeks), or at least thats what it used to be. 62 does mean they have space for 3 'special' days (emergency news coverage etc)
Erm, I don't know how they'd "make more money". Thanks to Hollywood accounting, only a moron would accept any sort of pay deal based on viewership/profitability.
Besides, every TV show I've worked on (be it for Comedy Central, G4, BBC or Channel4) I've always been paid WAY before it airs, most of the time before I'd even left the filming location (nothing quite like being handed a cheque for thousands as you're checking out of the hotel...)
This won't happen at Dragoncon. If it's proposed, myself, and the others at the EFForums track (http://eff.dragoncon.org) will gently 'correct' the error of their ways.
I almost tripped over them at least once (they were hard to see, plus *people*. And most of the weekend, I was in pain, having ruptured my knee during one of the panels I hosted Friday night (TPB-AFK showing, with Q+A, ISPs and 6 strikes, and Pseudonym rights)
Quick note though, The Marriot-Marquis is not 'the host hotel', it's 'one of the host hotels'. It's such a big event, that it takes up five (The Marriott, the hyatt, the Hilton, the Sheraton and the Westin) and the Americas Mart was added as a 6th host building this year.
That said, since I was made aware of this last week, I've been doing some digging, and it may be that the company doesn't own the pattern at all. More info when I get it.
I feel I should add perhaps a slight justification for why my Dragon Con badge is there.
I volunteer for the convention, working on the Electronic Frontier Forums track (which means I emcee a bunch of panels on law, technology, privacy and so on). One of our attending professionals is Mr Chintella (amongst other lawyers). In fact I was on panels with Mr Chintella on the 30th (discussing ISPs and 6-strikes, along with another lawyer, TJ Mihill who has also represented copyright owners), and again on the 2nd (on P2P litigation and Prenda law, Again with Mr Mihill, but also with a local public defender as well)
I also ran a screening of TPB-AFK, and a panel on pseudonym rights,, and 3 more on British sci-fi/fantasy; while Blair was on two panels about the NSA and wiretapping with the ACLU's Chris Soghoian, using his experience in the army to give a differing viewpoint.
So that's why Blair retweeted it, it's a hell of an event that has to be seen to be believed.
Maybe techdirt will send a reporter down next year (there's also space, science and skeptic tracks, for things like the daily dirt0
And to go with the 'AF Holdings should be prepared to explain why Paul Hansmeier was designated as its 30(b)(6) deponent instead of Mark Lutz.' Mark Lutz was due to be deposed at 9am this morning at the state bar of Georgia (http://ia801600.us.archive.org/7/items/gov.uscourts.gand.188990/gov.uscourts.gand.188990.44.2.pdf)
He didn't show. Judge O'Kelley's not going to look favorably on it. Of course, maybe the reason he didn't show was because the deposition order was worded to specifically name Lutz, and state that 30(b)(6) substitutions are not acceptable as he is the material witness, not 'the company'.
As a point of fact, the issue of taped calls came up in the July2nd hearing.
Mr Nazaire complained, and made out it violated Georgia wiretap law, New York wiretap laws (since he often travels to NY state), and Federal wiretap laws. I knew that was all crap, and I'd guess the former FISA judge did too.
However, Mr Chintella did talk about not recording calls unless approved by both sides, but that he'd only done it because Mr Nazaire has promised some sort of agreement on the phone, and then reneged.
So the whole 'calls may be recorded' thing is based on faulty law, and has been discussed in front of the judge who (it appeared to me, from what I saw of his body language) to not be buying it at all.
Of course, since Mr Nazaire filed my blogpost as evidence (60.15) he's also filed the specific references to the laws as evidence (page 3), so he can't get away with claiming that at all now, without looking even worse.
"Have you considered that all these "victims" could have just paid John Steele the money he and the rightsholders were entitled to, and all this could have been avoided?"
That's the big question though isn't it. I (probably, no telling if you're Duffy or Steele) know a little more about the case than you do, and there are significant questions about any entitlement they're due, except perhaps a visit from the FBI.
I have the feeling the judge saw it that way too, based on my observations of him during the hearing last month. As he heard more and more of the details FROM BOTH SIDES, and in answers to the questions he asked, he was not entirely convinced that AF Holdings/Prenda deserved anything either, and that's why he ordered discovery.
I may not be a lawyer, but you don't order discovery on a case in this stage unless you've got big questions over the legitimacy of the case brought before you.
He didn't even do a good job of copying my post. I wouldn't mind but
a) It's plain old HTML.
b) My contact info is on the site, and best of all
c) As I'm listed as expert witness for the defense, he was given my CV in person 6 weeks ago, that includes my mailing address, direct phone number, business phone number, priority email address, So he could have contacted me if needed.
And whats more, my piece took a week to post, because I had to be careful about what I did write. I kept to what I knew for certain happened, and mostly restricting my observations to that of the judge (although I'll be interested to see what he thought of them).
AS someone who's been 'targeted' by Hammond, it's amusing to see you label him 'hacker'. S-kiddie, yes. Violent thug with an ego complex yes.
But hacker, no.
A little over 3 years ago, he and i had a 'confrontation'. He decided I needed to be taught a lesson. He decided to attack me.
He Bounced.
See, problem is, I don't own any credit cards, and I'm not within easy driving distance. So he can't easily try and tear up a room I'm in, and with no credit cards, he's got nothing to trade with his betters for their help.
It did quite humiliate him. No CC number to steal, no way to try and physically intimidate me (I used to be the guy whose job it was to disable the bots on BattleBots, if they went out of control, Compared to a 350lb bot that could tear through an inch of lexan, he's nothing); nothing he could do.
In the end, all he is is a petty credit card thief, with a violence problem, who kept being a script-kiddie when on parole.
Quite sad really.
I guess you'll also say that Judge O'Kelley, who less than 2 weeks ago asked some basic questions of Prenda's Georgia lawyer, and had a LOT of problems with the answers he got. That's just looking at Prenda's OWN documentation.
Such a problem that he took the unusual step of ordering discovery, after 3 1/2 hours of listening and asking questions.
But hey, when Prenda hires a lawyer that tries to tell the judge what Federal wiretap/recording laws are, AND gets them wrong, it's not going to go down well with a judge that used to sit on the FISA court (1980-87).
The first batch of subpoena's have already gone out, and preservation orders went out a while back (oh, did you think you actually deleted that account Mr Steele, what a shame Google was already preserving it, guess we'll see what the judge says on spoilation)
Having fun, and I didn't even NEED to testify to point out the many and varies flaws in the complaint, the 83yo judge could see them for himself.
I did this because I believe people have a right to know what governments and corporations are doing behind closed doors. I did what I believe is right.
As with protestwarrior, he did it for the CC numbers.
I've dealt with Hammond a lot, both before and after his jailtime for his protest warrior CC theft. He's arrogant, self-important, self-opinionated, and has no long term plans. He's also not as smart as he thinks he is (and often got proved wrong about things he 'knew') and wasn't even that good a 'hacker' (he attacked me in 09, after I threatened to go to his probation officer over another hack he'd done (to rig an internal pirate party election for his buddy, another kid in the Rik-from-the-young-ones mold), and he bounced.
He claims to have principles, but I've only ever seen one, and that principle was "me me me"
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Video BAD
Worse, it then goes straight onto another story (overhyped on cyberbullying) and presumably another.
Please fix it Mike!
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Make more money??
Thanks to Hollywood accounting, only a moron would accept any sort of pay deal based on viewership/profitability.
Besides, every TV show I've worked on (be it for Comedy Central, G4, BBC or Channel4) I've always been paid WAY before it airs, most of the time before I'd even left the filming location (nothing quite like being handed a cheque for thousands as you're checking out of the hotel...)
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Won't happen at Dragoncon
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Quick note though, The Marriot-Marquis is not 'the host hotel', it's 'one of the host hotels'. It's such a big event, that it takes up five (The Marriott, the hyatt, the Hilton, the Sheraton and the Westin) and the Americas Mart was added as a 6th host building this year.
That said, since I was made aware of this last week, I've been doing some digging, and it may be that the company doesn't own the pattern at all. More info when I get it.
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I volunteer for the convention, working on the Electronic Frontier Forums track (which means I emcee a bunch of panels on law, technology, privacy and so on). One of our attending professionals is Mr Chintella (amongst other lawyers). In fact I was on panels with Mr Chintella on the 30th (discussing ISPs and 6-strikes, along with another lawyer, TJ Mihill who has also represented copyright owners), and again on the 2nd (on P2P litigation and Prenda law, Again with Mr Mihill, but also with a local public defender as well)
I also ran a screening of TPB-AFK, and a panel on pseudonym rights,, and 3 more on British sci-fi/fantasy; while Blair was on two panels about the NSA and wiretapping with the ACLU's Chris Soghoian, using his experience in the army to give a differing viewpoint.
So that's why Blair retweeted it, it's a hell of an event that has to be seen to be believed.
Maybe techdirt will send a reporter down next year (there's also space, science and skeptic tracks, for things like the daily dirt0
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Lutz deposition
He didn't show. Judge O'Kelley's not going to look favorably on it. Of course, maybe the reason he didn't show was because the deposition order was worded to specifically name Lutz, and state that 30(b)(6) substitutions are not acceptable as he is the material witness, not 'the company'.
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Re: Jail?
Imagine what else we can find out!
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Mr Nazaire complained, and made out it violated Georgia wiretap law, New York wiretap laws (since he often travels to NY state), and Federal wiretap laws. I knew that was all crap, and I'd guess the former FISA judge did too.
However, Mr Chintella did talk about not recording calls unless approved by both sides, but that he'd only done it because Mr Nazaire has promised some sort of agreement on the phone, and then reneged.
So the whole 'calls may be recorded' thing is based on faulty law, and has been discussed in front of the judge who (it appeared to me, from what I saw of his body language) to not be buying it at all.
Of course, since Mr Nazaire filed my blogpost as evidence (60.15) he's also filed the specific references to the laws as evidence (page 3), so he can't get away with claiming that at all now, without looking even worse.
Isn't this FUN!
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Re: My 2 cents
That's the big question though isn't it. I (probably, no telling if you're Duffy or Steele) know a little more about the case than you do, and there are significant questions about any entitlement they're due, except perhaps a visit from the FBI.
I have the feeling the judge saw it that way too, based on my observations of him during the hearing last month. As he heard more and more of the details FROM BOTH SIDES, and in answers to the questions he asked, he was not entirely convinced that AF Holdings/Prenda deserved anything either, and that's why he ordered discovery.
I may not be a lawyer, but you don't order discovery on a case in this stage unless you've got big questions over the legitimacy of the case brought before you.
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Re:
a) It's plain old HTML.
b) My contact info is on the site, and best of all
c) As I'm listed as expert witness for the defense, he was given my CV in person 6 weeks ago, that includes my mailing address, direct phone number, business phone number, priority email address, So he could have contacted me if needed.
And whats more, my piece took a week to post, because I had to be careful about what I did write. I kept to what I knew for certain happened, and mostly restricting my observations to that of the judge (although I'll be interested to see what he thought of them).
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Alas I don't.
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Hammond? HA!
But hacker, no.
A little over 3 years ago, he and i had a 'confrontation'. He decided I needed to be taught a lesson. He decided to attack me.
He Bounced.
See, problem is, I don't own any credit cards, and I'm not within easy driving distance. So he can't easily try and tear up a room I'm in, and with no credit cards, he's got nothing to trade with his betters for their help.
It did quite humiliate him. No CC number to steal, no way to try and physically intimidate me (I used to be the guy whose job it was to disable the bots on BattleBots, if they went out of control, Compared to a 350lb bot that could tear through an inch of lexan, he's nothing); nothing he could do.
In the end, all he is is a petty credit card thief, with a violence problem, who kept being a script-kiddie when on parole.
Quite sad really.
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Re:
Such a problem that he took the unusual step of ordering discovery, after 3 1/2 hours of listening and asking questions.
But hey, when Prenda hires a lawyer that tries to tell the judge what Federal wiretap/recording laws are, AND gets them wrong, it's not going to go down well with a judge that used to sit on the FISA court (1980-87).
The first batch of subpoena's have already gone out, and preservation orders went out a while back (oh, did you think you actually deleted that account Mr Steele, what a shame Google was already preserving it, guess we'll see what the judge says on spoilation)
Having fun, and I didn't even NEED to testify to point out the many and varies flaws in the complaint, the 83yo judge could see them for himself.
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Re: Re: Has anyone checked to see if any of these guys are still in the country?
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Re: Has anyone checked to see if any of these guys are still in the country?
I'll have a liveblog going at my site (ktetch.co.uk)
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Re:
Steele's name is over a number of the documents.
Sounds like Mr Chintella needs to send Google a legal hold notice...
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Rubbish
As with protestwarrior, he did it for the CC numbers.
I've dealt with Hammond a lot, both before and after his jailtime for his protest warrior CC theft. He's arrogant, self-important, self-opinionated, and has no long term plans. He's also not as smart as he thinks he is (and often got proved wrong about things he 'knew') and wasn't even that good a 'hacker' (he attacked me in 09, after I threatened to go to his probation officer over another hack he'd done (to rig an internal pirate party election for his buddy, another kid in the Rik-from-the-young-ones mold), and he bounced.
He claims to have principles, but I've only ever seen one, and that principle was "me me me"
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