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Chilling Effects Cease & Desist Clearinghouse
Wendy Seltzer writes: "The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, EFF, and other major law school clinics have launched ChillingEffects.org to combat the chilling effect of Cease & Desist letters with ungrounded legal threats. (Slashdot readers got a site preview in the story on the Bnetd Cease & Desist, already in our database.)
If you have received a Cease & Desist, we invite you to add it to the database, where law students will analyze the legalese and annotate the C&Ds with Frequently Asked Questions and answers. The site already offers several sets of general legal FAQs."
How long until this site itself gets it's own Cease and Desist for whatever unfounded reason?
Lost his faith in democracy,
Don't Tread on Me
Join me in protesting for our freedoms! Remember, information (and especially movies like Good Will Hunting) want to be free!
If guns kill people, then CmdrTaco's keyboard misspells words.
Why do I have the feeling that some featured organization will issue a C&D onto ChillingEffect.com?
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, EFF, and other major law school clinics have launched ChillingEffects.org to combat the chilling effect of Cease & Desist letters with ungrounded legal threats.
Yeah, those lawsuits hurt me a lot too when they're not grounded - They build up lots of static.
How about groundless?
"Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
Slashdot effect is stronger than the chilling effect.
Yes but every time I try to see it your way, I get a headache.
How about the chilling effect of putting up a site and being instantly slashdotted?
Dear Sir,
It has come to our attention that you maintain a web site operating under the moniker "chillingeffects.org" and through that service are engaged in the provision of legal services.
Since you are not licensed to provide legal services, we respectfully ask that you cease and desist from providing such services.
Respectfully yours,
Joe Q. Lawyer and associates.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
Slashdot Effect: The virtual equivilent of a C&D
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Oh come on.
We all know that they are being spewed at 66% of the speed of light on average.
Geez, these people always overstate things!
[[Ay fukkand lyke ane furious Fornicatour]]
watching 200 episodes of "Ally McBeal" doesn't make me a legal expert? I'm flabbergasted. Gotta go have to have a hallucination about a dancing baby...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I'm glad to see this site go up
Well, it apparently was up before we slashdotted it...
Don't try this at home kids: apparently even Groucho's humor was lost on those dour lawyers.
BTW, does anyone know which Marx Brothers movie has something like the following exchange?
I sure would like to issue quite a few Cease & Desist letters myself. What legal footing do I have to stand on if I send a spammer a Cease & Desist for harrasment?
My Cease & Desist
Dear Sir,
My penis is already too long, and I already know everything about my neigbor and don't need a net detective. I am already married so I don't care about finding a perfect mate, and my mathematical skills make it extremely unlikely that I will visit your on-line casino. I don't need your on-line porno, or your Nigierian.
Your repeated attempts to market to me are it harassament. If you were doing this over a phone I would already be seeing your sorry but in jail. Since you are hiding I must send this to everyone that has helped you in your endeavour.
Please remit 1,000 dollars to my swiss bank account or I'll sick my laywer on you.
Sincerely
Penis is to large and doesn't need to add another inch.
"Science is about ego as much as it is about discovery and truth " - I said it, so sue me.