The beauty of things that are massive, cumbersome and slow is that once they do finally get moving, they're damn near unstoppable, and anything in the way is getting crushed to paste.
In a follow up statement, NSA officials apologize for issuing such a heavily redacted document: "We didn't realize that our highlighter was actually a black marker."
Will somebody please strip this jackass' license? He's already having a bad year with his ties to Prenda leading to bar complaints, IRS complaints and DOJ complaints ... but the motherfucker isn't slowing down. Lots of things in our legal system are severely broken, and one of them is that we lack an effective means of promptly shutting down predatory lawyers. While all of the paperwork is being shuffled and the red flags are being raised, this hyena is stripping baby carcasses clean.
We have an overabundance of lawyers in this country as it is, and you would think that we could put together some laws to cut out the festering boils from the system.
It's sad when government agencies have such little oversight that it takes leakers and whistleblowers to make them start thinking about how to not abuse their authority.
When you do something really well, and you're really good at it, you make it look easy. That's really kind of a shame, because then you don't get credit for being half as good as you really are, and all of the effort you put into your work gets overlooked. Everybody watching says "Shit man, even I could do that."
All that being said, Nazaire makes lawyering look HARD.
The problem was too tricky to fix? How about removing the Cancel button from the logoff screen. You log off when you log off. If you didn't mean to log off then tough shit, Private, log back in again.
Seems to me it would be easier to threaten and intimidate the developer into issuing a hotfix than it would to threaten and intimidate every system user that tries to speak up and say "Um ... hey guys?"
My ego gets a little boner every time I see one of my comments go into a Copyright Troll's filed exhibit about all of the mean things the internet says about him.
I love seeing these defense attorneys slamming the Prenda boys with arguments that an IP address attributed to John Steele did this, that and the other thing.
If the opposing counsel wants to counter this, they have to make the argument that an IP address does not constitute an actual person's identity ... at which point everybody says "Fucking Duh" and the entire case implodes.
This case keeps getting more and more entertaining ... the same way that Brittney Spears, or Amy Winehouse got more entertaining. I always felt a little guilty watching these self-made celebrities slowly self destruct just as an empathic response. These are people, and they're putting themselves and their families through hell for the general public to laugh and sneer at.
Not so with John Steele. Here's a lawyer (strike one) running a settlement factory (strike two) that makes his living by threatening thousands of people, guilty and innocent alike (strike three). I feel the same level of empathy for John Steele that I do for that little desert lizard that shoots blood out of its eyeballs: subhuman and a little bit gross.
That's a tough break, man. But you'd think that after putting yourself Fifty Grand 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.
Glad I'm not in your shoes, Gibbs. Big debt and a tough financial situation really suck, but I think we just found a good motivation for engaging in shady legal practices.
Comparing copyright infringement to firearm felonies is a little less silly when you look at what happened in NZ earlier this year. Government espionage and terror-level-swat-response to arrest Kim Dotcom over megaupload in New Zealand is pretty scary. Then again, it doesn't pay to thumb your nose at the US DOJ in an election year where politicians are pushing hard on piracy bills like PIPA and SOPA.
However, in the case of child porn and stolen wifi, there was an example a year or two ago of exactly this. The FBI tore down somebody's door, raided the home, confiscated the equipment and found nothing. They later found it was some guy down the street piggybacking on the original suspect's wireless connection. First suspect got an apology. Second got time.
The up and coming artist loves the internet, and its pervasiveness of freedom. "Please, take my music. Listen to it. If you enjoy it, please buy my album." It is a medium of free distribution, to expose their creation to as large of an audience as possible. Opportunity.
The artist at the end of their career looks at things much differently. They already have as much exposure as they're going to get. They're not doing anything new, playing old hits and rehashing old ideas. They're trying to milk as much money out of every second of music that they can get to try to maintain the extravagant lifestyle they enjoyed from the 80's when they were actually relevant. Just look at Metallica ... Megadeth ... hell, even The Nuge. They're not going anywhere, they're simply trying to protect their money machines.
It's the same everywhere, and it is the exact reason why you see so many young people holding liberal viewpoints, and so many old people holding conservative views. One is optimistic and wants the opportunity to succeed. The other is pessimistic and wants to protect the monetization of past success.
Not much of a guess which philosophy is generally better suited for the future.
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The beauty of things that are massive, cumbersome and slow is that once they do finally get moving, they're damn near unstoppable, and anything in the way is getting crushed to paste.
In a follow up statement, NSA officials apologize for issuing such a heavily redacted document: "We didn't realize that our highlighter was actually a black marker."
Easy pattern to pick up on
File & collect, or dismiss & deflect.
Will somebody please strip this jackass' license? He's already having a bad year with his ties to Prenda leading to bar complaints, IRS complaints and DOJ complaints ... but the motherfucker isn't slowing down.
Lots of things in our legal system are severely broken, and one of them is that we lack an effective means of promptly shutting down predatory lawyers. While all of the paperwork is being shuffled and the red flags are being raised, this hyena is stripping baby carcasses clean.
We have an overabundance of lawyers in this country as it is, and you would think that we could put together some laws to cut out the festering boils from the system.
Sad state of affairs...
It's sad when government agencies have such little oversight that it takes leakers and whistleblowers to make them start thinking about how to not abuse their authority.
When you do something really well, and you're really good at it, you make it look easy. That's really kind of a shame, because then you don't get credit for being half as good as you really are, and all of the effort you put into your work gets overlooked. Everybody watching says "Shit man, even I could do that."
All that being said, Nazaire makes lawyering look HARD.
too tricky to fix?
The problem was too tricky to fix? How about removing the Cancel button from the logoff screen. You log off when you log off. If you didn't mean to log off then tough shit, Private, log back in again.
Seems to me it would be easier to threaten and intimidate the developer into issuing a hotfix than it would to threaten and intimidate every system user that tries to speak up and say "Um ... hey guys?"
LOL
My ego gets a little boner every time I see one of my comments go into a Copyright Troll's filed exhibit about all of the mean things the internet says about him.
January 8, 2014 baby. January the eighth.
Love it
I love seeing these defense attorneys slamming the Prenda boys with arguments that an IP address attributed to John Steele did this, that and the other thing.
If the opposing counsel wants to counter this, they have to make the argument that an IP address does not constitute an actual person's identity ... at which point everybody says "Fucking Duh" and the entire case implodes.
This case keeps getting more and more entertaining ... the same way that Brittney Spears, or Amy Winehouse got more entertaining. I always felt a little guilty watching these self-made celebrities slowly self destruct just as an empathic response. These are people, and they're putting themselves and their families through hell for the general public to laugh and sneer at.
Not so with John Steele. Here's a lawyer (strike one) running a settlement factory (strike two) that makes his living by threatening thousands of people, guilty and innocent alike (strike three). I feel the same level of empathy for John Steele that I do for that little desert lizard that shoots blood out of its eyeballs: subhuman and a little bit gross.
Squirm, John. Squirm.
That's rough
That's a tough break, man. But you'd think that after putting yourself Fifty Grand 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.
Glad I'm not in your shoes, Gibbs. Big debt and a tough financial situation really suck, but I think we just found a good motivation for engaging in shady legal practices.
As the Prenda turns
"As the Prenda turns" A perfect phrase that encapsulates this entire nightmare clusterfuck.
Hold on, kids. I'll get you lunch later. Daddy's watching his soaps.
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Comparing copyright infringement to firearm felonies is a little less silly when you look at what happened in NZ earlier this year. Government espionage and terror-level-swat-response to arrest Kim Dotcom over megaupload in New Zealand is pretty scary. Then again, it doesn't pay to thumb your nose at the US DOJ in an election year where politicians are pushing hard on piracy bills like PIPA and SOPA.
However, in the case of child porn and stolen wifi, there was an example a year or two ago of exactly this. The FBI tore down somebody's door, raided the home, confiscated the equipment and found nothing. They later found it was some guy down the street piggybacking on the original suspect's wireless connection. First suspect got an apology. Second got time.
Color me unsurprised
Unsurprised. This is the trend.
The up and coming artist loves the internet, and its pervasiveness of freedom. "Please, take my music. Listen to it. If you enjoy it, please buy my album." It is a medium of free distribution, to expose their creation to as large of an audience as possible. Opportunity.
The artist at the end of their career looks at things much differently. They already have as much exposure as they're going to get. They're not doing anything new, playing old hits and rehashing old ideas. They're trying to milk as much money out of every second of music that they can get to try to maintain the extravagant lifestyle they enjoyed from the 80's when they were actually relevant. Just look at Metallica ... Megadeth ... hell, even The Nuge. They're not going anywhere, they're simply trying to protect their money machines.
It's the same everywhere, and it is the exact reason why you see so many young people holding liberal viewpoints, and so many old people holding conservative views. One is optimistic and wants the opportunity to succeed. The other is pessimistic and wants to protect the monetization of past success.
Not much of a guess which philosophy is generally better suited for the future.