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Lawyer Puts $10k Bounty on Blogger's Identity

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the turn-yourself-in-for-ten-grand dept.

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."

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  1. Oota Goota, Troll Tracker? by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Funny

    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."

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    1. Re:Oota Goota, Troll Tracker? by cdrdude · · Score: 3, Funny

      It was half eaten? Stallman said it came that way :(

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  2. It's obvious who it is by ProteusQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    CowboyNeal. Isn't that the answer to everything around here?

    (Attention lawyers: I'm _kidding_! Put the subpoena down!)

  3. Is it Rumplestilskin? by blanchae · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can I have the $10,000 now?

  4. Re:Reality check by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would have reservations if I was a Native American.

  5. we can win this. by DingerX · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  6. Nothing to worry about ... by golodh · · Score: 4, Funny
    Well, nice mr. Niro probably wants to know the identity of the anonymous blogger to have a chance to have an intimate legal conversation with him. Lawyer talking shop to lawyer as it where, in a private setting.

    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.

  7. Re:Counter-Offer by aussie_a · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll arrest anyone who doesn't tell me who this Anonymous Coward is.

    - The D.A.

  8. Re:Reality check by snickkers · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  9. ethical quandary by f1055man · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't believe in imaginary property either, but I do believe in $10,000. ....I'll take the case!