That Anonymous Coward's Second Techdirt Favorites Post Of The Week
OHAI Tourists!
pulls on orange vest
For those of you not shaking your heads in disbelief that I’m here
again, I’m That Anonymous Coward.
People mostly just call me TAC, my current claim to fame is appearing
in 4 sets of exhibits submitted to Federal Courts by Pretenda and its
agents, as well as suing to unmask me for intentional infliction of
butthurt… or something.
I coined the term Pretenda.
I am harsh, snarky, and pretty entertaining.
I am a legend in my own mind, and the stuff of nightmares for copyright
trolls.
Now if you’ll all take your seats here on the short bus, the tour can
begin, as soon as I get past this pesky club Mike put on the
wheel.
Hand me that canister… a little liquid nitrogen works wonders on
stuck locks.
Multitool please….
Now we connect wire 1 to wire 3 and… we’re off.
Palantir (named for that creepy orb from Lord of the Rings that lets you spy on hobbit beauty queens changing), got $196 Million in funding. Let’s ignore the absolute failure of the people behind it, and how they planned to use the tech to undermine Wikileaks for private customers. And they would have gotten away with it, if not for those pesky kids in trendy masks. So a company, who has no problem creating fake information, is being funded to gather more ‘real’ information for the government or anyone else with a briefcase full of cash.
Oh everyone smile at the traffic camera, it’s gathering our images to
update your status on NSABook.
Given the errors most data aggregators have… you are probably
all George Takei.
Everyone smile and say Oh My!
Everyone wave at that nice policeman
hiding in that alley… being anonymous online is okay for him, but
everyone else should register themselves.
I wonder if he works for this guy.
I guess its open minded thinking like that, that leads to
stuff like this.
Ok everyone roll up the windows, this is a bad neighborhood. Those dark forbidding towers, the fire, the brimstone… Nope its not Mordor, one does not just tour Mordor… this is the Surveillance Suburb. DUMDUMDUMMMMM
I’d bother to narrate but this neighborhood is like the most insane HOA
ever.
Pouring money into companies, making us all less safe, with nothing to
show for it.
If you question them, you’re a freaking terrorist.
They scare everyone with ZOMG the terrorists will win, even as they do
way more harm.
Protecting
the cash cow is more important than people knowing the truth.
Ok this place depresses me… here let’s just do a doughnut in Rep. Rogers lawn…
BaBang
Whoops sorry that was a pretty big speed bump, oh wait no it’s just
EA’s latest fail.
Let’s pay a visit to my favorite place, the Copyright Troll
Cul-de-sac.
We should be safe, with the Government shutdown those nice men from ICE
are cooling their heels at home.
Just up here on the left, and this clicker I “found” opens the gates….
Given the amazing lengths some countries are going to appease the IP
cartels, well this is confusing.
And well this just seems to fly in the face of the horrible times they claim…
They have given up buying the laws they want, they just think they can say
it and make it law.
Yes it’s time to hit the wayback machine Peabody for background, as you should have learned last time I had the wheel… I go where I want, last tour I went offsite to Ars.
I was talking about this lawfirm, Steele
Hansmeier LLC and their boy wonder lawyer Brett
Gibbs.
They stood before a Judge and admitted they mislead the court in the
original complaint, that the discovery wasn’t enough to identify the
infringer and wanted the court to allow them access to pretty much
anything with a computer in it in the target’s house.
My crystal ball is that good, I saw what was happening and well popcorn
futures are way up as the comedy keeps coming.
It would be funny haha but the wheels of justice are slow, so its more
funny utoh.
See that battered McMansion? The one that looks like its been hit by
the wrecking ball a bunch of times, and somehow is still
standing? Prenda Prime, it’s pretty much Steele Hansmeier with
new siding.
HA.
I think the upcoming holidays might be a little chilly.
HA.
They ‘represent’ him, and their best answer is we think he’ll have a
good answer?
HA!
And the cash they owe, piles up higher.
I guess gaming the justice system will finally catch up with you.
The irony, it burns. How big does the lie have to be when
even a staunch copyright advocate calls you out?
What is this little dark alley… oh this is where the patent trolls are breeding.
Much like the copyright trolls they are filling peoples heads with dreams of imaginary dollars… that never seem to make it to their greedy hands.
It is almost like some people want these trolls to succeed and keep the world from moving forward.
They extract money from people who innovate so they can spend more money to keep themselves alive.
Heh, lemme flick on the high beams…. look at them run!
Ok it’s gross back here, let’s get out on the road…
FSCK someone got funding restored for ICE, everyone duck down while I
get us out of here.
STAY DOWN!
Well Mike can have those bullet holes filled with bondo…again…
I would be depressed about all of the NSA
coverage, except my paranoia apparently was well founded.
Looking at the few revelations so far, can people understand why
Occupy, LulzSec, & Anonymous scare the crap out of the powers
that be?
We had paramilitary action against citizens exercising their right to
protest.
Fun fact pepper spray is banned for use on soldiers in war because it
is chemical warfare, but hosing down citizens seems to be perfectly ok.
‘Merika – home of the meek and surveilled.
Maybe those they demonize most are the ones who are done being meek.
Maybe we should stop accepting what they tell us, as it’s clear
they have no problem lying to us, and educate ourselves about them.
Not everything they do is well received, but when people fight back it gets messy.
I guess CFAA is the digital firehose being turned on protestors.
And back to the parking lot…
Ohhh look! Everyone wave at the drones
we aren’t supposed to know about.
So we’ve watched our rights get stripped away.
We’ve all paid the tax on innovation, and gotten nothing but more bad laws.
If you question those rights we all think we still have, they call you names and start digging for dirt (or farm that job out).
Is anyone scared that the guy in the Guy Fawkes mask is making sense?
Republicans are red, Democrats are blue, the really sad thing is, neither side gives a fsck about you.
Oh hey, Mike did my $25,000 ever show up?
You can use part of it to have the tour bus fixed up.
And that was part of the week that was.
I remain,
TAC
He wrote a law only a Karen could love, and it shocked just shocked that Karen's took advantage of it. It is as shocking as the school boards who had people elected to seats when they refuse to allow their own children to attend public school.
"It’s not making the Beach Boys or Jay-Z lose any money (and, ditto for Universal Music)." Much like a lot of our current legislation and laws, it doesn't need facts or truth just the belief it is doing it. (Well that and enough cash/cameos flowing to the right candidates.) Much like the claims that 32 trillion children are snatched off the street, 40 billion hookers are trucked into the Superb Owl, even looking at fentanyl can kill a cop, the government is our freind, the check is in the mail, and no baby he'd never do it in your mouth... we really really need to demand reality be in charge again. (I now want to sell a single grain of fentanyl encased in acrylic as a pendant to driver who end up with to much interaction with cops).
The opioid crisis they ignored from the beginning and even as millions of pills were being shipped to tiny backwoods pharmacies?? The opioid crisis they kept ignoring & then tried to be okay with the family that killed so many people getting to keep any of their money & no actual punishment?! There are a lot of people scrambling for Adderall right now, but its not an epidemic... its being caused by the DEA inserting themselves into the process & limiting how much can be created and magically that number is less than what the market actually needs. So they are driving people to purchasing from sketchy online locations, not to get high but because the drug is life changing for some people & their actions are destroying those lives. I can't get painkillers without the additive that is only there to destroy my kidneys if I "abuse" it, but last time I checked my pain didn't give a shit & refuses to remain at a constant level that taking 1 pill a day will make go away.
Like it was Thursday
My shocked face that a book telling parents it isn't their fault is a best seller. Society is spending to much time figuring out who to assign the blame to rather than understanding what the problem is & what the real causes are.
The soundbites matter more than the law or reality.
“Among these nomadic subscribers, some are taking advantage of how easy it is, with a monthly contract and simple click of a button, to hopscotch from one service to the next. Indeed, these users can be fickle — a third of them resubscribe to the canceled service within six months, according to Antenna’s research.” Ah yes, your product being convenient for users is the problem. Reread that and wonder why they are losing money. Within 6 months is about the time it takes for 1 service to dump the content the user was following as it bounced from service to service. Reread that and wonder why they are losing money. Fickle... you mean like not clearly alerting users to what content will be gone in the next month? Fickle... you mean like vanishing content people thought they had purchased from their libraries? Fickle... you mean like using less than 2 weeks of streaming stats to decide if a series should be dumped before it can be discovered? Fickle... like trying to make your service a bit harder to navigate? Fickle... like claiming using a service paid for in 2 locations is somehow theft? Fickle... like deciding to just add advertising turning yourselves into the industry you disrupted? Fickle... like not working out a system to acquire the original soundtracks to series rather than replace them without informing the user who is then confused why their memory doesn't match? Fickle... like rebranding yourself 8 times in 2 years, rather than admit you suck at this and should just license your content to someone who knows that they are doing? Yes the problem is the users, the people paying you to provide them entertainment and not you finding all of the ways you can fuck that up over & over.
Maybe if he started using his good eye to read the rulings.
"does not substantially disrupt the ability of those organizations to earn revenue" It worked so fucking well with PACER, lets do it again!! If your law is behind any sort of paywall we can have QI when we violated it because there was no way we knew it was a law that was commonly known.
What the EFF taught me... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/why-metadata-matters They don't know if you feel a burning sensation down there, but they know you searched for STI testing locations. They don't know you have depression, but they know you looked up a therapist and the side effects of common antidepressants. They don't know you were sexually assaulted, but they know you looked up where to get plan b. They don't knwo you have a cardiac condition, but hey they know you searched for cardiologists.
I miss facts & truth.
Meanwhile children will go hungry while school is out this summer because being poor is a sin in the imaginary christian nation who follow a man who said care for the children & poor unless you need to feel superior. All of the sins they claim TikTok has done, Congress has done worse. They lie multiple times a day, mislead people, never are held to account, and gather way more data on us than China could with 1 fucking app.
Imagine if they managed to remind those paying the bills that their job is to set rules & punishments for their crotch goblins not tech companies. They go on and on about how porn is bad, then we see the per state search terms & we know they are lying. In a nation where children are being turned over to debt collectors over school lunch debt, they are focused on the imaginary harms if kids see naughty bits online. These moral assholes aren't moral, they are just demanding we all follow their beliefs & surrender our rights to them. They get caught lying, cheating, stealing and people keep electing them because they promise to stop all of these horrible immoral things. Its not teh gays, the furries, the transpeople, teh pron, that ruined the nation... it is 1 religious group that is held above all others & given special powers & rights to demand everyone else have to allow them to be assholes with legal protections well above other citizens. Besides if SCOTUS takes this up we can finally answer the question about how fucking corrupt they really are.
IP can do anything!!! As long as your target doesn't have a lawyer willing to respond to idiotic claims how they should be answered to.
We've been overrun by AGI spamvertising!!! That's right Another Guy in India spamvertising.
Contempt of cop, a global crime.
Ain't politics grand! (the image of what to buy from Home Depot with your stimulus check to make a guillotine goes here) Perhaps they had the right idea how to make government more responsive to what the people want.
In a nation where a member of Congress can offer an amendment to add space lasers to secure the border & not end up on a psych hold this makes sense. Sadly it appears the lies can just get bigger and bigger as some people insist it has to be true & who cares if it ruins the country... they are winning!
"damage officers’ reputations" And what about the damage being done by allowing them to try to cover up the fact "well trained professionals" couldn't tell brown suspect apart, read the address on a warrant, destroyed an innocent families home & refuse to make the innocent victims whole again.
I had posted to Twatter some of my thoughts... The sextortion thing... A whole bunch of people are going to ignore anything we tell them because the media is all over the "tech will protect you" story of Insta magically stopping teens from sending dick pics. Here is the most honest thing that can be said to people of any age. If you send naked content, you need to assume it will be on a billboard in Times Square at some point. You can claim it is hyperbole but how many more stories of shitty ex's sending out nudes do you need? While you giggle at Paris & Kim using it to gain more fame, stop and consider how you would feel in their shoes with anyone able to look & comment, to seek you out and say horrible things to you. How people you don't even know quietly whispering when they see you. Scams rely on you freaking out & needing to do something now now now without thinking. If you pay expect to keep getting farmed for cash, what the person who got your pic by lying is going to delete the content because you paid? Would you like to buy my bridge in Brooklyn? I personally get like 3 emails a month where the hacker claims to have hacked me, monitored me, & has webcam video of me jerking off to porn sites and if I don't pay they will send it to everyone! Before I scramble to send the payment to a bitcoin wallet they list, I stop. That email has no contacts to anyone I know. I don't have a webcam. I don't give a shit if I am seen naked by people I know. I suspect they haven't actually hacked me (never been a release of any video of me) but expected me to freak & pay. Every human has "naughty bits" GASP. People who would think less of you for someone gaining your trust to rip you off are shitty people. You are the victim who has been violated & those who want to blame you are assholes. You got scammed, lots of people have been the same way. Don't bother talking to the scammer, they will say anything to get you to send them cash. Report the account to the platform. Block the scammer. Move on with your life. Learn the lesson that people can and do lie online. That assholes screw with your heart & your head. Your parents have seen you naked way more than you should think about outside of therapy so not going to shock them. People often refuse to admit to these things, which is what helps the scammers stay in business. Just saying - Someone tried to catfish & threaten me to get cash online but I laughed & blocked them, might help them be prepared. The internet isn't a safe place. People lie. If you expect to see your naughty pic on the screens in Times Square when you send it less power to scam You're horny, you are going to send naked pics. Way more people do it than will admit it. Learn to not freak out. Notice Paris & Kim aren't exactly pariahs in society & they had way more than naked pics get out there. This isn't the end of your world, deep breath, think. https://twitter.com/That_AC/status/1780749800033358323 Something new I've seen popping up in my xhitter feed lately is someone selling nudes & details about young guys (allegedly 18+ because no boy EVER EVER would fib to a hot chick to get tit pics) who were catfished. I reported the first 1 to support & it went as well as the 200+ slutbot accounts I reported that are still active months later. Next one I see I'm going to try to remember NCMEC is a thing, I'm guilty of that thing were we assume someone will report it... I forgot I was someone. Rather than attacking 230, BigTech, lack of prayer in schools as being the cause of these things perhaps we should admit that the fake morality & puritanical beliefs are the reason this works. Society doesn't worry about the boy who a female teacher bangs, they cheer him on for getting lucky. But every other mix & match of genders in that situation is horrific. (Except when it was that pastor guy who groomed & molested a family member from 9 to 14 and has to serve 4 whole months & not have to register as a fucking predator). HIV is still rocking the planet because aid to developing nations can't mention condoms or safer sex to appease the moral majority who believe sex outside of marriage should be a death sentence (unless they are their own mistresses). How many more teens need to cap themselves before we stop pretending someone seeing your dick pic will ruin your entire life forever?? Every man has one (allegedly... eyes congress), some are nicer than others, but people believing your dick pic being out there will harm your future like the Abu Grav prisoner torture pics needs to stop.