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.
Filed Under: auction, domain name, hoehn
Companies: righthaven
Comments on “Righthaven.com Domain Sells For $3,300”
Congratulations Righthaven! You finally got your precedent for domain a seizure due to copyright violations/misuse.
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I’m sure the sale of the domain is just the registrar giving Righthaven some guidance on how to handle future domain seizures……………..
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No the domain seizure and sale was purely to do with unpaid debt, hardly a precedent for seizure due to copyright violations.
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Your sarc-o-meter needs checking, bud.
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I’ve checked it and changed the batteries, it’s working fine.
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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Check it one more time. Maybe you blew out the flux capacitor?
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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Also, I would call suing people over copyrights you don’t own a clear copyright violation.
Whois shows rimonlaw.com owns it (or at least someone there) and the website redirects to snapnames.com (404); probably being moved…
Rimon Law
from their site: ‘SOPA will help copyright holders protect the rights that copyright law grants them by suppressing free speech and impeding the functioning of the Internet, with predictable consequences on American jobs.’
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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“I wonder why they bough the domain?”
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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ah, sorry
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Anyone who has ever read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin knows he would of been consider a pirate today. He would borrow books and take them home and stay up all night copying them by hand before he returned them.
Still holding out hope it will become an online resource for people targeted in the copyright shakedown games being played here.
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Can always hope its “sophisticatedjanedoe” from fightcopyrighttrolls.com
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I spoke with SJD when I first heard the domain was up for sale. I know I lacked the resources for even the initial bid price, but it would have been nice to have a central location for all of the people working against the trolls to post to.
Justice
So they found their end from the very legal system they were trying to use to extort money from their victims. Fitting…
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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The “Pirates” in this case were people who had the audacity to share parts of all of a news story with others.
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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I guess what I was trying to say was that their (The publishers) money would have been better spent hiring a marketing firm to increase business, not a law firm to sue potential customers….
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Well the problem is copyright is the new exciting way to make money in this country. Lawyers tell them they have rights to get upto $150,000 each time, but we can get a few thousand easily from people who would spend that much defending themselves from these cases.
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.
Might I suggest
redirect to a certain goatish site?
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Or some other site…maybe something to do with lemons…
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One of the most fun of shock site images, Lemon Party features NSFWSTUFFS. This cross stitch pattern is a digitized version of the infamous image. The pattern itself is 6×4″ if stitched on 18ct and has 32 colors.
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
Maybe someone could turn it into a “Righthaven Excuse Generator” utilizing this classic shot of Steve Gibson exposing his power cords while attempting to answer an incoming call with his left nostril.
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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Gotta love that picture,
another excuse for missing work:
“Sorry my lawyer advised me that meeting was tomorrow”
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Definitely justifies becoming a meme.
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You mean like “You’ve been Righthavened?”
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Something like this?
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You mean like “You’ve been Righthavened?”
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.
It’ll be interesting to see if they actually show up in court today.
Pulling a Righthaven – To completely mess up in the law and life in general.
why the hell would you even want to buy that crap anyways?? i don’t get it
They should use the site for piracy.
They should use this as a Torrent Site or use it as an Anti-SOPA/PIPA Site
SOPA/PIPA = WAR
New Havens
The next 24 to 48 hours will be most interesting to discover who the buyer was.
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.
REALLY.
Kind of hilarious. Can’t wait to see what happens next in this ridiculous game they’ve been trying to play…
$3,300? They overpaid, IMO
What would you do with “Righthaven.com”? Its only possible use would be making fun of Righthaven, a joke with a shelf life of about 3 months.