Comments by Baldaur Regis http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... The wheel keeps turning.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c526 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:43:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c526 Free Speech Movement of 1964-65 - what was political censorship is now sexual censorship. Someday, somewhere a young woman will stand up and say "We are not afraid of words."]]> Re: Re: Let me get this straight..... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml#c574 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:10:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml#c574 Re: Re: Let me get this straight..... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml#c521 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:02:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml#c521 Settlement Demand Letters:
Your past and future posts on LiveJournal and other websites will be uncovered once discovery commences in this lawsuit. With your identity is revealed [sic], you will eventually be added to the case.
For good or ill, anonymity has ever been a valuable component of free expression; it is and should remain the toughest of veils to pierce.]]> Let me get this straight..... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml#c257 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:01:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml#c257 Earlier in 2013 he created a cyber-investigation service, which cracks the real identities of cyber bullies who post defamatory material online. The release of names and identities is part of this new service, for one of Monsarrat's client with an ongoing legal case against cyber bullies. His company is working in partnership with Defend My Name, perhaps the most technically advanced of the top anti-defamation services, and Ishman Law Firm, which has expertise in defending victims from cyber-attack.OK, groovy. He's got patented technology to identify anonymous posters online. And yet, in his actual Complaint it states:
Defendants John and Jane Does 1 through 100 are individuals whose true names and addresses of residence are currently unknown and unascertainable by Plaintiff, who have defamed Plaintiff through various false and defamatory Internet postings, and Plaintiff therefore sues said Defendants by such fictitious names. Plaintiff intends to identify the Doe Defendants through means of discovery and will amend this lawsuit to identify the Doc Defendants by proper legal names upon obtaining such information.
He owns a cyber-investigation service. Wouldn't he have already identified these Does? Is his means of discovery the same old 'harvest IP addresses then subpoena ISPs for the actual name' shuck and jive the copyright trolls have been trying? Or do you have to notify the court before using cyber-investigation kung fu?]]> Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/00585822974/intellectual-property-owners-association-against-helping-blind-because-it-would-set-dangerous-precedent.shtml#c398 Wed, 8 May 2013 12:09:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/00585822974/intellectual-property-owners-association-against-helping-blind-because-it-would-set-dangerous-precedent.shtml#c398 Try reality sometime, you might like it.Reality is just a crutch for those who can't handle drugs.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/15363322981/eff-gives-prince-lifetime-aggrievement-award-dmca-takedown-abuse.shtml#c178 Wed, 8 May 2013 12:03:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/15363322981/eff-gives-prince-lifetime-aggrievement-award-dmca-takedown-abuse.shtml#c178 Re: Re: YOUR only interest in "the blind" is as wedge against copyright. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/00585822974/intellectual-property-owners-association-against-helping-blind-because-it-would-set-dangerous-precedent.shtml#c162 Wed, 8 May 2013 09:12:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/00585822974/intellectual-property-owners-association-against-helping-blind-because-it-would-set-dangerous-precedent.shtml#c162 Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/07065022977/dutch-law-would-authorize-police-to-hack-into-foreign-computers-phones-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.shtml#c161 Tue, 7 May 2013 12:40:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/07065022977/dutch-law-would-authorize-police-to-hack-into-foreign-computers-phones-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.shtml#c161 Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/01074822975/gaijin-entertainment-demands-gaijincom-which-predates-them-doesnt-infringe-their-trademark.shtml#c115 Tue, 7 May 2013 10:20:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/01074822975/gaijin-entertainment-demands-gaijincom-which-predates-them-doesnt-infringe-their-trademark.shtml#c115 Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/11472022963/royalty-collection-agency-sabam-sues-belgian-isps-pursuit-its-34-piracy-license.shtml#c373 Tue, 7 May 2013 09:37:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/11472022963/royalty-collection-agency-sabam-sues-belgian-isps-pursuit-its-34-piracy-license.shtml#c373 Re: That's FINE! But an entire recent movie isn't fair use. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/04283522846/celebrate-right-to-share-world-intellectual-property-day.shtml#c114 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:18:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/04283522846/celebrate-right-to-share-world-intellectual-property-day.shtml#c114 "Well, I thought I'd do some infringement, then later mebbe do a little advocating."
"Sweet."


*rolls eyes*

(this is what I'd say if replying to the REAL ass_in_the_hat)]]> It's as if... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/04283522846/celebrate-right-to-share-world-intellectual-property-day.shtml#c66 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:49:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/04283522846/celebrate-right-to-share-world-intellectual-property-day.shtml#c66 Re: Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130410/12051322665/copyright-lobotomy-how-intellectual-property-makes-us-pretend-to-be-stupid.shtml#c761 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:30:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130410/12051322665/copyright-lobotomy-how-intellectual-property-makes-us-pretend-to-be-stupid.shtml#c761 provenance - wherein
"[t]he primary purpose of tracing the provenance of an object or entity is normally to provide contextual and circumstantial evidence for its original production or discovery..."
which if you think for a moment sounds like the idealized version of metadata. Technology has caused the current churn in how copyright is viewed; perhaps someday descendants of current search/match algorithms will provide an automated provenance for any work appearing online: "This is the work of so-and-so; the style is in the school of such-and-such; the classical themes of thus-and thus are mirrored in the work." and so on.]]> Re: Re: He should http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130421/14043222791/fox-uses-bogus-dmca-claims-to-censor-cory-doctorows-book-about-censorship.shtml#c237 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:58:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130421/14043222791/fox-uses-bogus-dmca-claims-to-censor-cory-doctorows-book-about-censorship.shtml#c237 Re: Diet? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130401/20330222541/long-history-specious-dmca-claims-this-is-definitely-one-them.shtml#c66 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:05:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130401/20330222541/long-history-specious-dmca-claims-this-is-definitely-one-them.shtml#c66 Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130417/10325622744/canadian-house-member-removed-threats-she-didnt-make-facebook-group-she-didnt-join.shtml#c186 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:40:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130417/10325622744/canadian-house-member-removed-threats-she-didnt-make-facebook-group-she-didnt-join.shtml#c186 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130417/10325622744/canadian-house-member-removed-threats-she-didnt-make-facebook-group-she-didnt-join.shtml#c138 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:07:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130417/10325622744/canadian-house-member-removed-threats-she-didnt-make-facebook-group-she-didnt-join.shtml#c138 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130410/08175622662/french-politician-wants-to-restrict-how-cheaply-companies-can-sell-goods-online-compared-to-physical-shop-prices.shtml#c426 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:05:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130410/08175622662/french-politician-wants-to-restrict-how-cheaply-companies-can-sell-goods-online-compared-to-physical-shop-prices.shtml#c426 dig if you will the response http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130410/10503022663/john-steele-to-court-you-have-no-evidence-that-ive-done-anything-wrong.shtml#c240 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:37:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130410/10503022663/john-steele-to-court-you-have-no-evidence-that-ive-done-anything-wrong.shtml#c240 this is what it sounds like
when lawyers lawyer up.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130407/21003122619/eric-holder-american-library-association-wikipedia-are-americas-worst-porn-enablers.shtml#c154 Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:55:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130407/21003122619/eric-holder-american-library-association-wikipedia-are-americas-worst-porn-enablers.shtml#c154
Second, I'll stick with the only publication that's reliably delivered smut (and toilet paper) for over one hundred years - the Sears catalog.]]>