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Dismantling of Righthaven appears under way with loss of website
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| 12/22/12
| Steve Green
Posted on 12/22/2011 1:29:49 PM PST by Tom Hawks
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A big win for the 1st Amendment rights of sites like Free Republic and bloggers.
Sometimes the good guys do win.
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posted on
12/22/2011 1:29:54 PM PST
by
Tom Hawks
To: Tom Hawks
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posted on
12/22/2011 1:35:30 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: Tom Hawks
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posted on
12/22/2011 1:39:03 PM PST
by
Dante3
To: Tom Hawks
Oh, it would be a sweet victory if a FReeper won the domain at auction and made it a conservative website. RightHaven would totally work for that purpose too :)
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posted on
12/22/2011 1:41:57 PM PST
by
Boogieman
To: Tom Hawks
Copyright Trolls may be akin to ambulance chasers — but, that doesn't make copyright infringement a good thing. Creators of any sort of intellectual property have rights too. If there is no control over piracy, the motivation to create new intellectual property will diminish — to say nothing of the loss of the capital necessary to create the intellectual property.
To: Tom Hawks
Those guys caused a lot a pain for a lot of minor players on the web who were just writing a daily blog or some other innocuous behavior. This was a shotgun rampage by RightHaven and they didn’t care who got caught up in their frivolous net or who they hurt. I hope the countersuits keep coming and victims go after the attorneys involved personally. Those shysters need to be hounded to the ends of the earth.
To: Jim Robinson
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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posted on
12/22/2011 1:44:07 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
To: Boogieman
That’s a good idea if they don’t have a trademark on “Righthaven” or could lose it.
To: Tom Hawks
Good riddance to bad rubbage.
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posted on
12/22/2011 1:46:51 PM PST
by
Track9
To: SunkenCiv; OneVike
Much welcomed FRiend.
Hey OV, you may want to ping your list also.
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posted on
12/22/2011 1:54:27 PM PST
by
Tom Hawks
(Time to send the Muslim commie back to Africa)
To: Jim Robinson
To: MrEdd
“awesome”
It would be considerably more awesome if somehow the defendants could go after the Las Vegas Review Journal and its owners. They are the people that were actually behind RightHaven!
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posted on
12/22/2011 2:17:53 PM PST
by
vette6387
(Enough Already!)
To: Tom Hawks
Now this is a real Christmas Present.
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posted on
12/22/2011 2:23:05 PM PST
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
If there is no control over piracy, the motivation to create new intellectual property will diminish — to say nothing of the loss of the capital necessary to create the intellectual property. Not true.
You'd have a lot more creativity, it just wouldn't be owned by the government/corporate cartel.
It no longer requires a huge capital investment to publish a book or a music album.
Granting an artificial monopoly to big corporations just because they can buy legislation granting them that monopoly is criminal.
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posted on
12/22/2011 2:24:16 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(FOREIGN AID: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries)
To: circlecity
Not only go after the attorneys, but also the newspapers who had “agreements” with them.
Since Righthaven never really owned the copyrights, the newspapers did. And aren’t they liable for the illegal actions?
Go after the Las Vegas scum who started this. They have assets.
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posted on
12/22/2011 2:26:11 PM PST
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
It is contented that it might be possible to diminish motivation to create new intellectual property, but where is the proof?
If the internet is used as an example of what really happens, it's pretty clear that the more writing space made available for people to write on the more writing will be done!
Frankly the age of "copyright" may well have come and gone. The Founders certainly never anticipated electronics.
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posted on
12/22/2011 2:31:54 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Tom Hawks
Merry Christmas!...............
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posted on
12/22/2011 2:34:09 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
To: Tom Hawks
Great to see those who actually fought back against these bloodsuckers getting the win on this.
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posted on
12/22/2011 2:50:22 PM PST
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
To: Tom Hawks
Does this mean Jim is no longer on their Christmas card list?
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posted on
12/22/2011 2:57:55 PM PST
by
Raycpa
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