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EFF Has Outlived Its Usefulness?
An anonymous reader writes "An inflammatory article runs today on The Register, with the title EFF Volunteers to Lose Sony Rootkit Suit. The article argues that the EFF's track record in court is detrimental to everyone with an interest in digital and privacy rights." From the article: "This is a very good cause. Sony installed stealth spyware on many thousands of Windows computers (although calling it a rootkit is an exaggeration), and it's crucial that the company get its bottom spanked quite painfully as a deterrent to its sister cartels in the entertainment racket. This is, in fact, such an important matter that the worst possible development would be to find the EFF arguing the case. That's because EFF will do what it always does: lose, and set a legal precedent beneficial to the entertainment pigopolists. By the time these pale vegetarians get finished, spreading musical malware will be considered a spiritual work of mercy." What do you think? Isn't it better to fight the good fight?
...it's crucial that the company get its bottom spanked quite painfully...
This is ridiculous thinking.
Say Sony gets sued for $100 million and loses. Lawyers get $40 million. Some folks who bought their bad CDs get a coupon for $1.00 off a Brittany Spears CD or some bullshit like that.
Why is this "crucial"? What's the benefit to you? Does it make you feel better? Why should anyone care how you feel?
What's so bad about the ACLU? Everyone likes civil liberties right?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
I can see that you really ARE being served.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
"You could have given a brief summary of your interactions with the EFF. You know, the interactions that constitute the factual basis for all the opinion you've been spewing. Instead, you prefer to expend orders of magnitude more effort defending your refusal to relate your own personal experiences."
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For someone who supposedly said, "nor do I care whether I ever find out what the EFF did to piss you off" you certainly seem to contradict yourself. In the above paragraph, you even go so far as to state what I could have done to quench your [supposedly] nonexistent thirst for said information. Now that you've triggered my dissonance detector, I realize you're just a frustrated chump who relieves himself by throwing online fits when he can't have his way. You're quite a character.
"No original sources I could get from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals could ever give me what I would need to know to discuss your personal experiences."
Incorrect... transcripts of all cases are available, for an administrative fee. Perhaps you confuse "public documents" with "online" documents.
"it still wouldn't tell me what mistakes YOU thought the EFF made, it still wouldn't tell me what behaviors YOU found unprofessional."
If you're so dense as to not equate my cause of action, as found by a reading of the complaint, to the grievances I have against the EFF then I believe any form of communication with you is futile and beyond your comprehension level.
"This entire thread has been about your opinions, and so long as you won't say why you hold them, the only thing here we can discuss is why you're behaving like such a buffoon."
I suggest you examine your own behavior. A quick reading of your own statements reveals that you too have opined in this thread, over and over again. To claim that I'm the only one who has opined is simply ludicrous and disingenuous.
"The longer you keep stonewalling, the more worthless your opinion appears. The longer I keep feeding your trollish behavior, the dumber I look. I don't care, though. At this point, I just want to win."
You know what's really funny? The fact that I've already provided the information (via links) in one of the other thread branches to my post. You've just been so obsessed with getting the information without having to do *any* research at all that you missed it. But that doesn't surprise me, coming from an armchair researcher like you.
"[by win,] I mean, 'getting the last post.' I have the time to waste on this thoroughly pointless exchange. Do you?"
We obviously share different ideas of what "win" means. You can have the last post... that's fine with me (consider it your "win"). I, on the other hand, shall have the HLS award (my "win").
Here... I'll throw you a bone... the information you seek can be found in this post:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170322&pid=14
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