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• On the post: Judge Orders Prenda / AF Holdings To Show The Original 'Salt Marsh' Signature; This Ought To Be Good

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2013 @ 07:59pm

  Shouldn't the judge ask for a copy of Anthony Saltmarsh's signature, for comparison? Or would that be beyond the scope of the judge's powers?

• On the post: Mutual 'Friend' Of John Steele And Alan Cooper Implies That Cooper Was 'Off His Meds' When Accusing Steele Of Identity Fraud

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2013 @ 09:51pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  It seems to me what he's saying is "Maybe the Cooper of AF is the caretaker, maybe he's somebody else, I personally have no clue."

• On the post: Mutual 'Friend' Of John Steele And Alan Cooper Implies That Cooper Was 'Off His Meds' When Accusing Steele Of Identity Fraud

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2013 @ 02:17pm

  Re: Re:

  Before, they specifically said that the Alan Cooper who turned up in court, the one who was a caretaker, WAS NOT the Cooper in charge of their company.

  Wait, when did they say this?

• On the post: Prenda Law: Let The Other Shoes Hit The Floor

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2013 @ 02:07pm

  Re:

  I can already hear your liver screaming in agony.

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

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 08:47pm

  Re: You're welcome, fanboys!

  I... Are you suggesting that Ken White takes orders from Mike?

• On the post: Verizon Steps In On Prenda Case; Says Brett Gibbs Never Informed Them Of Judge's Order Killing Subpoenas

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 01:11pm

  Re: Re:

  Wait, I thought Ken said he wasn't going to use his computer during the hearing, since judges tend not to like it.

• On the post: Team Prenda Does Not Show Up In Court; Judge Is Not Amused

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 05:01pm

  It's surprising how many of the people involved in this are willing to work for free.

• On the post: As Expected, Team Prenda Trying Desperately To Get Out Of Appearing On Monday

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2013 @ 03:00pm

  Re: Am I the only one who caught this?

  Lutz could say that the only contact info he has for Cooper is a phone number, and that Cooper simply isn't answering his phone or responding to messages left on his answering machine. Of course, if he said that, the judge would want to know the phone number, would be able to determine the address the phone number belonged to, and from there...
  
  If he wanted the Cooper issue to permanently go away, he could do a variation on the above: the only contact info he had for Cooper was his phone number, and that number was on his smartphone. Except that, oops, his smartphone got damaged to the point of destruction (or got stolen), and double oops, he never synced up his smartphone with his computer. So sorry, your honor, but Cooper is now and forevermore unserviceable.
  
  Of course, the second would certainly get him contempt of court, but if the alternative is worse...

• On the post: YouTube's ContentID Trolls: Claim Copyright On Lots Of Gameplay Videos, Hope No One Complains, Collect Free Money [Updated]

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2013 @ 07:04pm

  I would think that this would piss off the actual copyright holders, so why aren't they doing anything about it? Are they not aware of it?

• On the post: Yet Another Court Says IP Addresses Are Not Enough To Positively Identify Infringers

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2013 @ 06:44pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  By default, BitTorrent trackers record the source IP address from the request as the actual address of the peer to be delivered to others. But, some BitTorrent tracker implementations support an optional extension to the peer request message that allows requesting clients to specify a different IP address that the tracker should record in its list of peers instead. This is intended to provide support for proxy servers and peers/trackers behind the same NAT.

  That isn't spoofing a TCP connection.

• On the post: Yet Another Court Says IP Addresses Are Not Enough To Positively Identify Infringers

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2013 @ 01:36pm

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  IP addresses can be spoofed.

  How? From what I know of TCP/IP and the anti-spoofing measures used nowadays, spoofing a TCP connection would require incredible luck.

• On the post: New Hampshire Politicians Want To Make 'Satellite View' On Maps A Criminal Offense

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2013 @ 01:30pm

  in which Barbara Streisand sued a photographer for taking an aerial photograph of her house, as part of a project to photograph the entire California coastline from a helicopter (to study the impact of erosion). It was crazy to think of that as a privacy violation, and the court clearly agreed, siding with the photographer over Streisand.

  Wasn't Streisand's issue that her house was labelled as being her house, rather than it being anonymous like all the other photos?

• On the post: Copyright Dispute Means Germans Can't See All Those Russian Meteor Videos

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2013 @ 04:33pm

  Re: Re: "No evidence of real harm." -- One of Mike's standard defenses.

  as well as your shots at Mike regarding his defense of Google (which purposefully ignores the numerous articles directly criticizing Google and actions undertaken by them).

  Silly, it's the fact that he defends Google at all that's the problem. </sarcasm>

• On the post: Dead Kennedys Guitarist Joins Crusade Against Ad Networks & YouTube Despite Understanding Neither

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2013 @ 05:43pm

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  They make money when people search for illegal versions of content via site hits AND they make money off the ads on the pirate sites.

  So, what is Google supposed to do? Try to guess which searches are looking for pirate sites, and refuse to do those searches?

• On the post: Dead Kennedys Guitarist Joins Crusade Against Ad Networks & YouTube Despite Understanding Neither

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2013 @ 05:39pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  The point is how much does Google make off of selling ads that are in some way connected to piracy attempts.

  Okay, then, how much? Do you have any estimates?

• On the post: Bizarre 'Attribution' Troll Bullies Twitter Users Into Compliance With Baseless Legal Threats

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2013 @ 11:16am

  Re: Ah, okay, so now you're for plagiarism too

  But now, when faced with the potential to say something on behalf of the artist to defend this pro-publicity gambit, you don't hesitate to go negative on the artists. Whammo. Even asking for attribution is being greedy and selfish.

  But the artist didn't merely ask. If he'd just asked for attribution, I doubt that Tim would have cared. Instead, he:
  
  1) Started out with a threat of lawsuit.
  
  2) Threatened to get their Twitter account yanked (which meant he was either lying, or hadn't bothered to read Twitter's ToS).
  
  3) Lied about being a part of Knopf Publishing.
  
  4) Lied about Twitter setting up multiple accounts for him.

  And yet there you were grousing and complaining when Slashdot was grabbing your stories without attribution. Sheesh.

  Did he threaten to sue Slashdot, or threaten to get their ISP to yank their connection? If not, I don't see how they're comparable.

• On the post: Canada Denies Patent For Drug, So US Pharma Company Demands $100 Million As Compensation For 'Expropriation'

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2013 @ 11:43pm

  So, if this sort of thing turns out to work, would it mean that if one country accepts the patent, the other has to accept it as well? Or does it go further, so if Mexico, the U.S. and Canada all decline to grant a patent, does the company get to sue all three countries to force them to accept the patent?

• On the post: CT State Representative Proposes 10% Tax On Mature Video Games

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2013 @ 11:39pm

  What about...

  1) Games which haven't been rated? If those don't suffer from the tax, wouldn't it be an incentive to leave games unrated?
  
  2) Freeware and open source games? Do they ignore the tax since they make no profits or revenues?

• On the post: Canadian Schools Ban WiFi Based On Bad Science

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2013 @ 09:18pm

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  The electrical wiring in the walls produces electro-magnetic radiation.

  Oh, the same people who worry over WiFi already have that covered. Just google "dirty electricity".

• On the post: HOA President Receives Public Criticism; Responds With Baseless Claims And Empty Legal Threats

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2013 @ 04:39am

  which demanded the paper ?stop this article immediately, because I will sue you just like I sue the people who don?t pay their dues.? he said.

  Has he forgotten that the HOA has contracts with the people who don't pay their dues, and that's why he can sue them?

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