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<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c335</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anon E. Mous]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:29 PDT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sorry but as much as I fell Gibbs that he got over his battle with Cancer, I have to throw some serious side eye at his claims of poverty. Didn't he just finish coming back from his Honeymoon?<br />
<br />
Gibbs was a huge part of the Prenda Team, he hired the council in the Sunlust case and Gibbs in the case before Judge Wright is the one who asked to have Judge Wright removed from this case for "Bias".<br />
<br />
Gibbs was a long time partner of this scheme and I used the word "scheme" lightly.<br />
<br />
Gibbs should have to pay his share of the order for costs. Gibbs could have walked a long time ago when he knew what was going on with Prenda and their litigation tactics, but he chose to stay till the very end.<br />
<br />
Now Gibbs is supposedly not with Prenda anymore, but yet he still has e-mail addresses at Prenda related ended entities.<br />
<br />
I don't but that Gibbs is totally out of the Prenda machine. I am more than wary that most of Team Prenda lawyered up before Judge Wright's hearing, and the Gibbs did as well.<br />
<br />
For a broke guy Gibbs sure can afford someone to represent him. Another rpoint of contention was that when Mark Lutz was all of a sudden the master CEO of these holding companies, why was Brent Gibbs listed as their corporate lawyer AFTER order to show cause was brought down?<br />
<br />
In one of the California cases, there was a request for Prenda or AF Holdings to put up a 45k bond, and Prenda complained to the court that it couldn't afford that bond and would not put a bond up, Gibbs was the lawyer in that case complaining about the bond.<br />
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Sorry but I see Gibbs and everyone else with Team Prenda trying the poverty angle. Sorry Gibbs, your health may have been ravaged at one time by cancer, but you are and were more than just a hired gun in this little conspiracy, your place in these lawsuits goes quite deep and your were part of this for YEARS!!<br />
<br />
Gibbs is not as innocent as he claims and he deserves his share of this order for the 81k. Gibbs was also and has been listed in the documents as the lawyer for the Class Action Settlement Objectors suits.<br />
<br />
Gibbs was the lawyer in the Class Action Settlement Objector Suit letter that said for 30k we will drop our objection to this settlement.<br />
<br />
That 30k letter in that case was the one that the Lawyer handling that settlement sent a letter back to Gibbs stating he was in violation of the rules and could be seen as what it was. <br />
<br />
As a matter of fact that letter was filed with the court and  Gibbs was the author of a response letter back to the lawyer handing the settlement, where he told the other lawyer he was being unprofessional and launched a little attack in it.<br />
<br />
Sound familiar? That is the Prenda Modus Operandi. Gibbs is far from a victim in all this and his participation in the Class Action Settlement Objectors game shows that he has been more than a willing participant in the copyright lawsuits and the class action objectors suits.<br />
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Sorry Gibbs, better get that chequebook handy!]]></content:encoded>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous Coward]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:26 PDT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote>A California cop who was being video recorded by a smartphone said she was in fear for her life because the phone could have possibly been a gun</blockquote><br />
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And yet while fearing for her life she didn't attempt to protect herself or the public she is sworn to protect by drawing her firearm.... Interesting.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>on the topic of hitler quotes</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c704</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous Coward]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:15 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c704</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[May as well compete, seeing as it was brought up.<br />
<br />
IF we are going to apply Hitler quotes to a political side in America... Who do you think seems more Hitler-ish ?<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>The "right wing Hitler" quotes seem sorta right wing'y to me.</b><br />
inb4 some wrongly use inference to conclude I am a blind left winger.<br />
It's not a two sided, black/white thing. Something Hitler knew and used as propaganda to make people believe it was a two sided issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<blockquote> <br />
"The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands..."<br />
 <i>-- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 180-181.</i><br />
 <br />
<br />
"In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason."<br />
 <i>-- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 173</i><br />
<br />
<br />
"All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be."<br />
 <i>-- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 180</i><br />
<br />
<br />
"But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."<br />
 <i>-- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 184</i><br />
<br />
<br />
"It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered."<br />
 <i>-- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 180-181</i><br />
<br />
<br />
"[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect... The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses."<br />
 <i>-- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 180</i><br />
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<br />
"[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way</blockquote>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Hockyball!</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c323</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous Coward]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:49:53 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c323</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[A famous hockyball player claims to have the greatest number of homedowns in a single quarter. News at 26 o'clock.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re: Re:</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c497</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[weneedhelp]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:49:46 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c497</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Bluff... Absolutely. In a heartbeat. At the very least it will make them think twice if they think they cant destroy the evidence. Illegal to lie to a cop during an investigation? Most likely.(obstruction) Ill take the lie, get to keep my video, accept those charges, and have an accurate account of what happened. Rather than getting my video deleted and having no other evidence than He said and I said.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>That's rough</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c332</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[CTVic]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:49:43 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c332</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[That's a tough break, man.  But you'd think that after putting yourself <i>Fifty Grand</i> in debt in pursuit of a legal education, you may have shown up to class on the days that the professors lectured on moral turpitude, fraud, RICO and settlement scams.<br />
<br />
Glad I'm not in your shoes, Gibbs.  Big debt and a tough financial situation <i>really</i> suck, but I think we just found a good motivation for engaging in shady legal practices.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re: Re: Re:</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1036</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous Coward]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:49:42 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1036</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[So the way to fight piracy is through enforcement of the law by the government and the way to fight government corruption is through enforcement of the law by the government?<br />
<br />
Yeah, brilliant analogy. You totally got me there.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c313</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leigh Beadon]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:47:00 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c313</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[You clearly have a very low standard for accuracy.<br />
<br />
Also, I wonder what it is exactly that you read news for, if not to <em>educate yourself</em>. The issue is not how many people catch the error, it's how many people walk away misinformed. Copyright and patents are a specialty but hardly one that is cut off from the general public -- the idea that you "patent an invention" is common knowledge and many individuals apply for patents; billions of people see large prominent copyright notices displayed every time they post a photo on Facebook; things like the Pinterest copyright dispute, or the patent clashes between large tech companies, make it onto the evening news regularly these days. The majority of people now have a passing familiarity, at least, with these concepts.<br />
<br />
The fact that you think it's not a big deal for the world's third-largest news agency to leave them so badly misinformed about a <em>major</em> distinction of law just shows that you have very low standards for knowledge and comprehension. Anyone familiar with the basics of copyright or even a skewed version thereof -- which these days includes anyone who has *gone to high school* -- now has a completely incorrect understanding of Dotcom's actions, such that any who are interested and attempt to research more are going to find themselves immediately confused, and any who attempted to express even simple opinions about what's happening or might happen is going to sound like a fool.<br />
<br />
That's the opposite of what the news is for.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re: Re: Re:</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c1475</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[nasch]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:44:57 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c1475</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>So why is it not okay for those copyright enforcement companies to use copyrighted photos on their website without permission?</i><br />
<br />
It depends on the circumstances.  If you're talking about NYT they do it all the time and rely on fair use as part of their news reporting.  Note that this is done for commercial gain, but is still fair use.  If you mean someone else, then I'm not sure what you're referring to by copyright enforcement companies.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Anti bullying</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130401/03115322523/macklemore-explains-why-not-being-label-helped-him-succeed.shtml#c330</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catina sanford]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:43:22 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130401/03115322523/macklemore-explains-why-not-being-label-helped-him-succeed.shtml#c330</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[I am desperatly trying to get a hold of macklemore and or Ryan Lewis! <br />
My daughter used parts of same love but rewrote<br />
The words to suit a bullying situation at her school! It has become so popular that the <br />
School wants to submit it to a national contest. <br />
There is no monetary compensation. <br />
Just helping a young girl build some self asteem <br />
And possibly win a trophy for her efforts. <br />
818 515 0069! We love ur music]]></content:encoded>
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<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/02455423183/prenda-lawyer-says-georgia-court-should-ignore-judge-wrights-order-because-look-hackers.shtml#c512</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[sophisticatedjanedoe]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:41:10 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/02455423183/prenda-lawyer-says-georgia-court-should-ignore-judge-wrights-order-because-look-hackers.shtml#c512</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Defendant, through Blair Chintella, <a href="http://ia801600.us.archive.org/7/items/gov.uscourts.gand.188990/gov.uscourts.gand.188990.33.0.pdf" rel="nofollow">replied</a> to Nazaire's bizarre pleading. Translation from Legalese:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>Exhibits A &amp; B: WTF??</blockquote><br />
<br />
Also, Chintella <a href="https://twitter.com/ChintellaLaw/status/337996381803380738" rel="nofollow">tweeted</a> that the sanction motion hearing is set to June 20, 2013.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous Coward]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:37:57 PDT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA["Sometimes accuracy doesn't win."<br />
<br />
* facepalm *<br />
<br />
What is the point of having news if the aren't accurate?<br />
<br />
Did I miss the memo saying that it is OK to make shit up now?]]></content:encoded>
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<title>They're right you know</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c488</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[DOlz]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:37:03 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c488</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Video games cause violence and cell phones are weapons.  "Angry Birds" is obviously a recipe for disaster.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re: Cop == coward</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[jimb]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:37:02 PDT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[But it -could- be terrorists! And we have all this neat equipment the Feds gave us to fight terrorism... we might as well use it when we have an 'incident'. You don't want the terrorists to win, do you?!]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re:</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c281</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous Coward]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:36:22 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c281</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[The difference between copyright and patents is about of the same magnitude as the difference between UDP and TCP, that is to say, anyone that wanted to <b>seriously</b> discuss matters regarding such things would not be able to confuse one for the other, as the differences between them are non-trivial.<br />
<br />
Confusing one for the other reveals total lack of fact checking or knowledge on the subject.<br />
<br />
A news agency, whose job is to - supposedly - report on facts <b>cannot</b> be allowed to make such a mistake. They are <b>dead wrong</b> and thus should be called out for it.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c1461</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[nasch]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:34:09 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c1461</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Yes, fair use counts as authorized distribution. But the only way this is fair use is if there is zero market impact, which is questionable.</i><br />
<br />
That's not correct, fair use is determined based on the balance of the four factors.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Copyright</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c1436</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[nasch]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:33:25 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c1436</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Right, and the only factor that's debatable is market impact.</i><br />
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You really think people will go to ScrollKit's site to get NYT stories rather than NYT's?  Because that's how there would be a market impact.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c842</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[nasch]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:31:58 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c842</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>No, Google is NOT saying that. Yet their system is more than capable of keeping URLs out of the system that are listed in the robots file so there's no excuse why they, as a supposed security advocate, shouldn't honor robots.txt instructions.</i><br />
<br />
But you keep mentioning security in connection with robots.txt.  If you acknowledge that it's not a security measure, and Google doesn't say it's a  security measure, why are you still talking about security?<br />
<br />
Also, why is this a big deal?  I'm not trying to defend Google, I just really don't see why it's important.  Can you explain it?]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re:</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c276</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous Coward]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:30:43 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c276</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>News flash: just because the nuances of IP law are your private obsession doesn't mean everyone else in the world gives a shit.<br />
<br />
People make mistakes. People are lazy. People are under pressure to get shit done and quality sometimes suffers. Journalists are people. This is not news.<br />
<br />
Anyway why don't you jot us off a quick three page summary of the changes in international maritime law over the last 10 years. Make sure to get all the details right!<br />
<br />
Oh what's that? You don't spend all day studying the nuances of maritime law? What's your problem? What are you, some kind of simpleton?</i><br />
<br />
Exactly. The irony is that Tim himself butchers the doctrines more than most.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re: Re:</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous Coward]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:27:32 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1034</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exactly! Just like the RIAA should give up fighting piracy! You can't stop it; it's part of the new reality. Adapt or die.]]></content:encoded>
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