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Lawyer Puts $10k Bounty on Blogger's Identity
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Raymond Niro of Niro Scavone Haller & Niro is fighting back against criticism from the Patent Troll Tracker blog by offering a $10,000 bounty for the identity of the person behind it. He thinks the blogger might work for Microsoft, Intel, or has connections to a 'serial infringer' and that could 'color' what they say."
This reminds me of the time Richard Stallman offered a half eaten french fry and all the change he could find in all the couches of MIT's student commons area for the identity of an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot that called him a "tree hugging bearded hippie."
My work here is dung.
CowboyNeal. Isn't that the answer to everything around here?
(Attention lawyers: I'm _kidding_! Put the subpoena down!)
Find some random guy i thailand, cut a deal with him to admit it's him.
Laugh at said lawyer.
Untill he realises it and offers another 10k bounty for your identity.
Perhaps I could email Mr. Troll Tracker and let 'im know that I could use the $10k, and could I have his contact information to pass onto this sad sack of a lawyer who apparently is unable to engage any of the numerous detective firms out there who could find his information for much less--or even to take the time to ask nicely?
Whaddaya think, would it work? I really could use the $10k...trying to save up for a wedding, and it's slow going.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree
My best friends call me "cash".
Can I have the $10,000 now?
I would have reservations if I was a Native American.
Thus spake the Anonymous Coward...
Go to questionable startup rate your prof^H^H^H^Hlawyer and pull up their list of IP and Patent lawyers. Send "registered" emails from separate accounts for each name on the list. Then, if he should ever determine the identity, chances are it's on the list, and whoever sent the email will have a good claim on the money. That is provided, of course, said mouthpiece doesn't accuse the snitch of participating in a conspiracy to do exactly that. So the flipside is that if we spam the address with false positives, either the real stoolie will have little hope of making any money off of it, or we get in on the action.
I'm just speaking hypothetically, of course. I'm pretty sure someone else holds a patent on this sort of spam, and the lawyer involved has set an elaborate trap for an infringement suit.
I really don't see the problem, do you? I'm certain it will all be legal, so there's nothing to worry about. No. Really.
I'm Troll Tracker, and so's my wife!
I'll arrest anyone who doesn't tell me who this Anonymous Coward is.
- The D.A.
Buying a bride now days can be so expensive, I feel for you!
You're totally right. We've all got so caught up in all the arguing and bickering that we've forgotten what's really important. What's really important is which god you believe in.
GLORX 3:16
I am Spartacus.
Gimme my ten grand, punk!
I hear voices, and they don't like you
I don't believe in imaginary property either, but I do believe in $10,000. ....I'll take the case!
and so is my wife.
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