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Anything other than that understanding is called myopic thinking.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c682 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:22:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c682 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c876 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:22:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c876 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c162 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:19:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c162 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c24 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:18:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c24
Signed]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c677 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:17:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c677 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1219 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:15:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1219 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c874 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:12:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c874 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c746 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:12:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c746 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1204 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:10:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1204 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c737 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:08:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c737 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/10542823205/another-court-tells-prenda-to-pay-up-attorneys-fees.shtml#c130 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:56:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/10542823205/another-court-tells-prenda-to-pay-up-attorneys-fees.shtml#c130
Lutz is a Paralegal who has worked for various Steele entities. Lutz in that brilliant Q&A with the Judge in Nyugen Case in florida ( where coincidentally Steele was present for a Prenda case...what are the odds!)

Lutz all of a sudden after Judge Wright put forth his Order To Show Cause, becomes CEO of AF Holdings and a bunch of it's entities and Brett Gibbs becomes Lawyer of Record for AF Holdings.

So Lutz who couldn't even answer the remotest questions about Sunlust Pictures and AF Holdings, and basic questions about who works there and claimed in the Q&A with the Judge to be just a "1099 contractor" is a mastermind able to organize Copyright Assignments and buying said copyrights and setting up LLC's and offshore trust's?

Yeah and Elvis is alive and working at 7-11. Lutz has worked for Steele for years and was the voice on the other end of those phone calls looking for Settlements that were robo-dialed to subscribers.

Now suddenly he is the corporate CEO master of business. Yes I doubt that. If you recall in the Deposition Of Hansmeier who appeared on the Behalf of AF Holdings (lordy, another coincidence!) couldn't name any officers of the company and that no one drew a salary every from there that he was aware.

Who knew Mark Lutz was such a humanitarian in working for all these companies and entities for free as CEO (of course while managing to do robo-calls and demanding settlement payments)

I wish I could make that historic rise form Debt collecting and Para-legal work to CEO. Lutz ought to give the good folks at MIT a call and relish them with his tale of how he rose from debt collector for Stelle to CEO of mnay companies, LLC's and offshore trusts.

Truly the American dream!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c153 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:54:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c153 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c147 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:49:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c147
Did you seriously get that confused? Mike writes an article about DMCA notices being used to takedown content they don't own, and you get it confused with a non-DMCA email asking for content to be removed (which didn't get removed by the way). One abuses the force of law to get someone else's content taken down, the other asks for someone to consider their own hypocrisy. No law states that DMCA compliant notices are required to take content down.

Perhaps, blue, you should spend a few more seconds in figuring out what is even going on.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1168 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:43:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1168
In short, lawsuit happy groups like *AA's, gone from the net, everyone else, still gets the benefit of the doubt and so stays.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c134 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:41:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c134
Oooh! Pretty!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c515 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:38:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c515 very expensive trip like that does pretty handily disprove the 'I'm broke and have less than a grand in the bank' line he's trying to give the judge.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c771 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:38:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c771 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c127 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:38:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c127
Why?

Because people think copyright has something to do with attribution. It doesn't. Why do they think this? Because people generally want credit for what they do. They want validation. That's innate in human beings. Wanting money or control over some idea of theirs is not innate. People simply respect copyright law today not because they get it and understand it and agree with it, but because they think it's something it's not and agree with that other something. The more I've taught people that what they are doing is infringement, the more I've found people hate copryight law.

What do you mean I can't copy this song and give it to my friend? I didn't change the artist?

What do you mean I can't copy this coloring book for my friends' kids? They know I didn't make it.

What do you mean I can't play the music/movie I bought at the block party for my neighborhood? I just told you I bought it.

No, the public at large generally hates copyright once they find out the basic things they think should be ok are punishable by up to $150,000.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c114 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:36:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c114