methinks the lawyer is a friend of family member of those that are taking offense at what this critic did and are using it as a way to divert public funds to themselves through a crony
Plausible. So what's the law society going to do about it? Nothing.
... this lawsuit should have been seen to have been doomed from the get-go.
Yes, and I ask again, WTF is wrong with law societies that they refuse to police the actions of charlatans in their industry? Quack physicians can be sued damned near to death. Incompetent engineers are ousted the moment they're discovered, & etc.
Yet lawyers who fail to explain the relative merits of clients' cases WRT the law are allowed to just bill and bill and bill until their crap case is eventually tossed out. This case wasn't even close to a toss up. Credulous clients are encouraged to waste time and money on stillborn tilting at windmills that the lawyer should have advised them against from the beginning.
There is no excuse for this lawyer for allowing this case to go ahead. Just reading the relevant published law would've immediately shown Inglewood had no case, and that's on First !@#$ing Amendment grounds! This lawyer should be disbarred on grounds of illiteracy or fraud at least.
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Really? You can buy four desktops for $314? Yeah, right!
I paid C$80 for my second hand HP Pavilion g4 laptop (64 bit AMD A4-3300M, 4 GHz). Lemme do the math ... 3 Gb HD, 5 Gb RAM. It was about five years old when I bought it. I've seen newer (than that) pizza box PCs selling loaded second hand for ca. C$120.
One would assume that the establishment of War Measures Law would have to be kept secret from the public of course ...
That would explain a lot of things. If Congress or Obama secretly invoked War Measures, the Constitution has been suspended. If Obama invoked it, then Congress has to confirm it within so many days, and if they can do that in secret, we've been living under martial law since 9/11. Game over.
Except, aren't elections suspended in State of War too? So, what's up with all that presidential campaigning going on?
Can you imagine the size of that blacklist as it is now, considering the million or so per day of DMCA takedowns they're handling? That must drive them nuts! What a horrendous waste of I/O and electricity. :-P
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You know, having a desktop or laptop computer is no excuse for not realising that not everyone has that option.
I suspect you can't win this one. I'll bet I could buy four fully loaded, obsolete for Windows(TM) but perfect for Linux, towers or pizza box or laptop computers for the price you paid for that smartphone, and even more if we consider the monthly payments to your provider. They wouldn't be gaming rigs, but they'd suffice otherwise.
You're simply conflating "internet" and "file sharing" ...
Of course you're right. The only thing you can possibly do with the Internet is "file sharing." Yuk, yuk, yuk. You're funny.
Piracy has been beaten to pretty much standstill. Where are your "file lockers" now that dare to openly boast of infringed content?
Playing whack-a-mole with rightsholders' ridiculously expensive and horrendously ineffectual lawyers who've convinced rightsholders they can fix this for them, and watching Rightscorp pour millions of wasted dollars through the cracks in the floor, getting pennies on the dollars spent back. Those dollars could have been going to artists themselves had they not been suckered into shitty deals with the labels.
Would have been quicker except had to finish eating and coffee ...
Would've preferred if you'd starve yourself to death instead, or die screaming in a fire! However, whatever floats your boat ...
I feel a disturbance in the force, as if a million A&R reps cried out in horror.
We didn't even need to spend millions bribing politicians for it to happen either. So, who is it really who's robbing artists, authors, musicians, and other real creators? Could it be rightsholders and middlemen?
If this's even reaching the NY Times, perhaps boycotting the MafiAA will even gain traction, and these will be the final days of the dinosaurs again. Next stop, patents and copyright reform?
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All I suggested is if they wanted to take him alive, try that first. If it worked, it'd be safer for the SWAT team than going in with guns blazing. If it didn't work, they'd end up doing that anyway.
They were making two million bucks a year off only that fraudulent claim.
I too am quite astonished they're still even in business, much less accepting (or receiving) new signups, and still not bothering to verify email addresses! You'd have to be living in a cave to not know about ALM's shenanigans by now. I'd never even heard of them before these stories broke.
The story on Wired actually lauds them for not being too bad at IT noting they even used bcrypt. Now you know what Wired's opinions are worth if you didn't before.
I know, I'm weird, I still have paper maps, even some that are new.
You're not weird. One of my favorite things is an old school atlas. It's older than I am. Remember Rhodesia, Ceylon, and Burma?
I too used to own those booklet roadmaps, and it was funny to look at them when they were worn out and held together with tape, when they showed open prairie where whole subdivisions had since been built.
Some of those old maps are pretty quirky. This atlas shows my "municipal district" (not even a city or town), yet it doesn't mention the honest to goodness *city* just across the river from us at all! That's got quite a few good laughs from friends.
If Google has to forget that they have been told to forget ...
That's damned near sublime. I wonder if they can use that as a defence in court. "You told us to forget, so we forgot. How can we remember what we forgot? Why are you blaming us for doing what we were told to do? WTF, judge?!?"
Is anyone naive enough to think that anything will actually disappear, no matter what Google remove from their databases?
Apparently, yes, the authors of this nonsensical law do. This reminds me of those goofball managers who "have a brilliant idea, and all you need to do is blah", where "blah" == "transmute lead into gold."
I think we need physicists to weigh in on behalf of news reporters. "Yesterday, today, tomorrow; that's how time works. What's done is done, and you can't change the past."
When you can show me proof that you've gone back in time and convinced your grandfather to get a vasectomy prior to his meeting your grandmother, then we'll talk. I'll buy that first working prototype time machine, btw.
You owe Tim Cushing an apology. Stuff like this is insane, nonsensical, ridiculous, and lots of other things, but it takes a brilliant satirist to make it funny. Otherwise, we'd be left looking for a tree to bang our heads against, or worse.
The worst thing is the photographer wasted a perfectly good opportunity.
Well, except for KMG which was needlessly dragged into court for doing what the photographer expressly requested. The judge, I hope, had some fairly scathing opinions for the photog's lawyer. This never should've wound up in court. I suspect the photog was just hoping to shakedown KMG and they didn't fall for it. Good for them. They had competent legal advice.
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Lawyers. :-P
Plausible. So what's the law society going to do about it? Nothing.
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Re: Fundamentally outrageous
Yes, and I ask again, WTF is wrong with law societies that they refuse to police the actions of charlatans in their industry? Quack physicians can be sued damned near to death. Incompetent engineers are ousted the moment they're discovered, & etc.
Yet lawyers who fail to explain the relative merits of clients' cases WRT the law are allowed to just bill and bill and bill until their crap case is eventually tossed out. This case wasn't even close to a toss up. Credulous clients are encouraged to waste time and money on stillborn tilting at windmills that the lawyer should have advised them against from the beginning.
There is no excuse for this lawyer for allowing this case to go ahead. Just reading the relevant published law would've immediately shown Inglewood had no case, and that's on First !@#$ing Amendment grounds! This lawyer should be disbarred on grounds of illiteracy or fraud at least.
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What part of "obsolete for Windows(TM) but perfect for Linux" says "brand new" to you? Care to roll again?
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I paid C$80 for my second hand HP Pavilion g4 laptop (64 bit AMD A4-3300M, 4 GHz). Lemme do the math ... 3 Gb HD, 5 Gb RAM. It was about five years old when I bought it. I've seen newer (than that) pizza box PCs selling loaded second hand for ca. C$120.
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I was not including String Theorists in "physicists", nor was I thinking tachyons are relevant here either.
Maybe we need to include philosophers too. At least they understand the Law of Causality.
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Re: Re: "Yes we deleted it..."
That would explain a lot of things. If Congress or Obama secretly invoked War Measures, the Constitution has been suspended. If Obama invoked it, then Congress has to confirm it within so many days, and if they can do that in secret, we've been living under martial law since 9/11. Game over.
Except, aren't elections suspended in State of War too? So, what's up with all that presidential campaigning going on?
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Re: I Think There's More
Youch! Poor Mike. We have a new meme. :-P
You've caught Uriel-238's Freudian Slip virus! $DEITY help us. Someone call the CDC!
"The Masnicator." Gahd. I'm going to have to go watch "The Rise Of The Nazi Party" now to try to get that out of my head.
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Can you imagine the size of that blacklist as it is now, considering the million or so per day of DMCA takedowns they're handling? That must drive them nuts! What a horrendous waste of I/O and electricity. :-P
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So a 10 year old story is news?
I suspect you can't win this one. I'll bet I could buy four fully loaded, obsolete for Windows(TM) but perfect for Linux, towers or pizza box or laptop computers for the price you paid for that smartphone, and even more if we consider the monthly payments to your provider. They wouldn't be gaming rigs, but they'd suffice otherwise.
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Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf?
Of course you're right. The only thing you can possibly do with the Internet is "file sharing." Yuk, yuk, yuk. You're funny.
Playing whack-a-mole with rightsholders' ridiculously expensive and horrendously ineffectual lawyers who've convinced rightsholders they can fix this for them, and watching Rightscorp pour millions of wasted dollars through the cracks in the floor, getting pennies on the dollars spent back. Those dollars could have been going to artists themselves had they not been suckered into shitty deals with the labels.
Would've preferred if you'd starve yourself to death instead, or die screaming in a fire! However, whatever floats your boat ...
Boycott MafiAA! :-)
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Re: Re: Bafflegab
Nah, this is obviously Mike himself posting clickbait to make money for his masters at Google! He's not fooling me! I'm not falling for it!!!
:-)
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We didn't even need to spend millions bribing politicians for it to happen either. So, who is it really who's robbing artists, authors, musicians, and other real creators? Could it be rightsholders and middlemen?
If this's even reaching the NY Times, perhaps boycotting the MafiAA will even gain traction, and these will be the final days of the dinosaurs again. Next stop, patents and copyright reform?
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Luckily you weren't in charge of tactics either.
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They'll delete it for only $19. :-)
I too am quite astonished they're still even in business, much less accepting (or receiving) new signups, and still not bothering to verify email addresses! You'd have to be living in a cave to not know about ALM's shenanigans by now. I'd never even heard of them before these stories broke.
The story on Wired actually lauds them for not being too bad at IT noting they even used bcrypt. Now you know what Wired's opinions are worth if you didn't before.
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Re: I own that map
You're not weird. One of my favorite things is an old school atlas. It's older than I am. Remember Rhodesia, Ceylon, and Burma?
I too used to own those booklet roadmaps, and it was funny to look at them when they were worn out and held together with tape, when they showed open prairie where whole subdivisions had since been built.
Some of those old maps are pretty quirky. This atlas shows my "municipal district" (not even a city or town), yet it doesn't mention the honest to goodness *city* just across the river from us at all! That's got quite a few good laughs from friends.
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Re:
That's damned near sublime. I wonder if they can use that as a defence in court. "You told us to forget, so we forgot. How can we remember what we forgot? Why are you blaming us for doing what we were told to do? WTF, judge?!?"
I hope you win funny of the week for this. :-)
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Apparently, yes, the authors of this nonsensical law do. This reminds me of those goofball managers who "have a brilliant idea, and all you need to do is blah", where "blah" == "transmute lead into gold."
I think we need physicists to weigh in on behalf of news reporters. "Yesterday, today, tomorrow; that's how time works. What's done is done, and you can't change the past."
When you can show me proof that you've gone back in time and convinced your grandfather to get a vasectomy prior to his meeting your grandmother, then we'll talk. I'll buy that first working prototype time machine, btw.
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Re:
You owe Tim Cushing an apology. Stuff like this is insane, nonsensical, ridiculous, and lots of other things, but it takes a brilliant satirist to make it funny. Otherwise, we'd be left looking for a tree to bang our heads against, or worse.
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Re: Wasted Free Advertising
Well, except for KMG which was needlessly dragged into court for doing what the photographer expressly requested. The judge, I hope, had some fairly scathing opinions for the photog's lawyer. This never should've wound up in court. I suspect the photog was just hoping to shakedown KMG and they didn't fall for it. Good for them. They had competent legal advice.
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Considering he's Texan, I expect he has it in for Evolution and Global Warming for sure.
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