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• On the post: Judge Wright Tells Team Prenda To Pay $80k, Refers Their Activity To State Bars, Feds & IRS

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 06 May, 2013 @ 04:50pm

  Finally.
  But I imagine that any subsequent investigations by IRS/DOJ/Bar Assoc., will take at least a couple years, and then any actual prosecution would take a couple more.

• On the post: Peter Hansmeier Denies Connection To Prenda Cases Via Document That Shows He's Connected To The Cases

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2013 @ 04:36pm

  fool

  How's that phrase go?
  "Any lawyer that represents himself has a fool for a client and an idiot for an attorney."

• On the post: Righthaven Copyrights 'Sold' Back To Stephens Media For $80k To Pay Legal Fees

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 08:52am

  Steve Gibson?

  What happened to Steve Gibson and his claim to still control Righthaven, despite the court ordered receivorship?
  I seem to recall he filed an objection or something.

• On the post: Deep Dive Analysis: Brett Gibbs Gets His Day In Court — But Prenda Law Is The Star

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 09:55pm

  How long?

  How long before we can expect an order from the judge?

• On the post: Prenda Lawyer Hires His Own Lawyer, Tries To Tapdance His Way Out Of A Jail Sentence By Throwing Prenda Under The Bus

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2013 @ 07:06am

  What's going on with the real Alan Cooper's lawsuit against Steele and company, or whoever it is? Couldn't he make that a criminal complaint of identity theft, probably with the FBI since the incorporation was based offshore?

• On the post: Doing Sponsored Content Badly: 'Native Advertising' Isn't Native If It Sucks

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2013 @ 08:08pm

  the "ad" has been pulled

  The Atlantic has pulled the "Advertorial" and suspended the ad campaign, and apologized for it.
  In their own words, "We screwed up."
  
  http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/01/15/the_atlantic_scientology_magazine_yanks_sponsored_content_after_outcry.html

• On the post: Paul Ceglia's Case For 50% Of Facebook Falls Apart Soon After He's Arrested For Fraud

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 07:03pm

  Re: Quoting out of context

  ..."in his case against Facebook, Zuckerberg looks to be (unsurprisingly) closer to falling apart completely after the court has decided that the extremely damning evidence of fraud can be discussed in the case."
  
  Not to be a nit, and maybe I'm sleepy, but I got so hung up on the last sentence of this article, that I'm stuck in an infinite logical loop, and must retire...

  Same here. If only he'd used "and" instead of a comma between Facebook and Zuckerberg.

• On the post: Anti-Islam Movie Actor Sues Producers, YouTube To Have Film Removed

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2012 @ 12:20pm

  The judge has already denied her request to force Youtube to remove it:
  http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/09/20/innocence-of-muslims-youtube-lawsuit/

• On the post: Antitrust Complaints Against Google Still Don't Make Any Sense

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2012 @ 02:27pm

  Large enough bribes, er, "campaign contributions", will start anti trust investigations against anyone.

• On the post: Twitter's Lawsuits Against Spam Tool Providers Could Easily Backfire

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2012 @ 05:35pm

  Re: Blizzard

  That was my thought, exactly, when I wrote my comment above, but then I forgot to mention it
  MDY Industries LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment
  It was actually MDY (maker of Glider) that sued Blizzard, but Blizzard won big on the counterclaims.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Indus._LLC_v._Blizzard_Entm%27t,_Inc.

• On the post: Twitter's Lawsuits Against Spam Tool Providers Could Easily Backfire

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2012 @ 01:14pm

  While I can see Masnick's point of view, in that a tool provider shouldn't [normally] be liable for what it's users do with it, does it change the tool provider's liability if/when that tool is designed specifically to do nothing but spam and violate Twitter TOS? especially if they're circumventing the provided API

• On the post: Captain's Prerogative: CBS Suddenly Decides To Block Fan-Created Star Trek Show Despite Past Support

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2012 @ 12:30pm

  It's my understanding that CBS didn't block the entire show, but just blocked them from using an official, albeit unused, ST script.
  The original author of this unused script liked the project so much, that he was even going to direct it for free. Nothing I read explained how CBS came to own the script he wrote, whether he sold it to them way back in the day or it was a work-for-hire.

• On the post: ICANN Confirms That It's Going To Make It Easier For Governments To Seize Domains Around The Globe

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2012 @ 09:37am

  ICANN will do things like this, probably because they think they have to if they want to maintain their control. If they don't, that's more ammo for other countries to get the UN to take control.

• On the post: AT&T Threatens To Cut Off Phone Service For Guy Who Beat Them In Small Claims Court Over Throttling

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2012 @ 04:26pm

  Re:

  here's the AP article that says he admitted to tethering:
  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-offers-quiet-settlement-iphone-193059176.html
  
  here's an article on Consumerist:
  http://consumerist.com/2012/03/att-threatens-to-cancel-service-for-man-who-won-throttling-lawsuit-if-he-wont-discuss-settlement.html
  that says:
  "AT&T has reached out to Consumerist to clarify that the letter only threatens to terminate the customer's service only if he signed the nondisclosure agreement and then violated the terms of that agreement. We have subsequently confirmed this with a source who has seen a copy of the letter."

• On the post: AT&T Threatens To Cut Off Phone Service For Guy Who Beat Them In Small Claims Court Over Throttling

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2012 @ 04:22pm

  One article I read, can't find it now, said the guy freely admitted to tethering, clearly against the TOS, and AT&T only said they ~could~ cancel his contract for that.

• On the post: The Latest Entrant In 'How Not To Do Marketing' In An Online World: Ocean Marketing Fail

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2011 @ 05:01pm

  He keeps digging himself deeper and deeper, and all the while he's dragging the actual controller company he's supposed to be repping down with him.
  Has anyone tried to contact them? Who was it, N-Control? To see if they might decide to finally do some of their own damage control.

• On the post: Righthaven Tries New Strategy: Maybe If It Just Ignores Marc Randazza, He'll Go Away

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2011 @ 07:17am

  Re:

  Randazza isn't arguing that.
  The court ordered it.
  Since they weren't paying any of the court ordered judgements already outstanding against them, the court ordered them to turn over any and all assets, including any IP, to receivership, to satisfy the outstanding judgements.
  Randazza just following along with the continuing court cases, and trying to get the money the court already said it's owed.

• On the post: Surprise! AT&T Admits Defeat, Withdraws T-Mobile Takeover Attempt, Pays $4 Billion Breakup Fee

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2011 @ 07:21pm

  Did they "admit defeat"? Or just lie their way out of it, like they tried to lie their way into it? Claim it was a "business decision" to pull out, or due to some vast government conspiracy, everybody's out to get them, or some such crap.
  
  As for the $4 billion they have to pay DT, another article says that will really only cost them about $1.4 billion after a tax write off.

• On the post: When The NY Times Builds On Other's Work, I Guess That's Journalism [Updated]

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2011 @ 05:26pm

  Re:

  The point is the majority of info came from the original article, meaning that's where NYT got it from.
  The point is if the NYT writes an article first, and anyone else then writes an article using much of the same info, NYT screams plagiarism. But let the NYT be the ones writing the article second and using info from another article, like they just did in this case, they don't mention it at all and don't credit anyone else, making them HUGE hypocrites.

• On the post: When The NY Times Builds On Other's Work, I Guess That's Journalism [Updated]

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2011 @ 05:14pm

  Re:

  "If you copy from one source without credit, it's called plagiarism. If you copy from lots of sources without credit, it's called research."

  Does that mean the NYT plagiarizes their research? or researches their plagiarism?

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