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<title>Re:</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c515</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous Coward]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:57 PDT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><i>while fearing for her life she didn't</i></blockquote>]]></content:encoded>
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<title></title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/01434213446/dailydirt-tuition-debt-is-chumps.shtml#c269</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous Coward]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:44 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/01434213446/dailydirt-tuition-debt-is-chumps.shtml#c269</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[That electricity thing? That's actually theft. Think twice before you plug into someone's exterior power outlets.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re: Re: don't forget</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c357</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Masnick]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:55 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c357</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>"As for his health, Brett's condition is stable (i.e. good), and is looking forward to hanging with all of his friends down in Grenada."</i><br />
<br />
FWIW, one can be in "stable (i.e. good)" condition with cancer, and still have a huge amount of medical expenses -- including ongoing drug regimen and regular expensive checkups.<br />
<br />
So, I don't think that statement disproves anything in the filing.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Oh no, don't throw me in the brier patch!</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1063</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous Coward]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:20 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1063</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote>Since no one but the copyright holder can know what is and is not authorized, but they want everyone to take down content that even might be infringing anyway, that would mean that everything would have to be taken down.</blockquote><br />
<br />
Yes, that <i>that's exactly what they want</i>.<br />
<br />
They *want* links gone, so that they can control who gets to promote music.<br />
They *want* reviews and previews gone, so they can control what you see before you buy.<br />
They *want* Youtube gone, so that everybody has to go to Veho to view music videso.<br />
They *want* Apple and Amazon gone, so that everybody has to go back to record stores.<br />
<br />
<blockquote>if they had their presence(and profits) on the net essentially disappear overnight it wouldn't take too long before they'd start thinking that maybe a more moderate approach</blockquote><br />
<br />
No, their presence wouldn't disappear because they have distribution monopoly, but <b>everybody else's presence would</b>, which is exactly what they want.<br />
<br />
Piracy is a straw-man.  What they want is for *everybody else* to stop competing with them.  Moving from "the internet is a communications medium" to "the internet is a broadcast-only medium" would fuck everybody except them.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re: Too many thieves and pirates break ANY business model.</title>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1047</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greevar]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:52:51 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1047</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[I do think copying and sharing "someone else's" content <i><b>is</b></i> moral. In fact, sharing content is morally superior to hoarding it to leverage it for profit. I also don't ascribe any ownership to any content I might produce because it's not really mine, it's built on the common wealth of culture that belongs to every thinking being in existence. It's not mine nor any other person's property. Everything I have, or will, personally publish is, as far as I'm concerned, automatically part of the public domain. I'm not so stupid to think that I can make money by going against human nature's compulsion to share knowledge and culture. I know that if what I do is worth paying for, I can get paid for doing it. It's called being paid for <i>labor</i>. Idiots like you want to get paid for a product that doesn't exist. And what of the content I produce? It's advertising for my value as a content creator, so that people may know what I'm able to provide them. Content I publish isn't what's valuable, <i><b>I'm</b></i> what's valuable. If there is no me, there is no content created by me.<br />
<br />
So, I have no fears about people sharing content I create because I will never support my income on that platform.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Re:</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trails]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:51:57 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c343</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[This, times 80 million bazillion.  He's in a tough spot, how many people in similar situations did he nuke?]]></content:encoded>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anon E. Mous]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:29 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c335</guid>
<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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c509</guid>
<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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
<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>
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<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>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[weneedhelp]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:49:46 PDT</pubDate>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
<link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c293</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous Coward]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:37:57 PDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c293</guid>
<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>
<guid>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c479</guid>
<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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