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Swedish Anti-Piracy Lawyer Gets New Name 'Pirate'
An anonymous reader writes "Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (in Swedish) reports that Henrik Pontén, a lawyer of Antipiratbyrån, a Swedish organization against file sharing, has received a notification from officials that an application for change of his name has been approved and a new first name 'Pirate' has been added to his name. Authorities do not check the identity of persons applying for name changes. Pirate Pontén now has to apply for another change in order to revert the change."
add the word "butt" to his name before he can change it back another great idea create business cards and send them his way
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
If you think that's childish you don't know what the word childish means.
And I really dislike those type of killjoy remarks.
It reminds me about another area I've been investigating over the past 5 years: The lies and incompetence in the airtravel industry in the Netherlands and Schiphol.
Groups who are against expansion usually take the route of seriously and respectfully opposing people in Schiphol, airtraffic control LVNL, and other organisations such as NLR (air/space 'research' organisation) and PNL (a lobby group lead by serial liar Benno Baksteen).
I don't. I have examined their claims about cost of insulation, noise being generated being supposedly less, noise insulation not helping to reduce annoyance with people by the metric of number of complaints which don't go down.
I have shown all these claims to be lies. Insulation cost is not anywhere near as high as claimed by PNL, noise is not less than in 1990 when applying a useful metric, number of complaints is not a good metric as these can vary easily by a factor of 10-20 x larger or smaller depending on outside factors (e.g. increase in complaints after the twin towers, decrease in complaints by a huge factor in Australia after collapse of a large airline Ansett), and NLR is an amateurish organisation that doesn't even know when to use uppercase/lower case for units (contrary to general use in physics as taught even in schools).
So, how do you deal with those people? Seriously? With respect? You can do that but you won't get anywhere. Those nutters need to be told the truth which is the facts about the above subjects, the facts about their incompetence, the facts about their anti-social nature. You can deal with them respectfully, but unless you don't mind a 30 year gameplan, it's pointless.
What I do is write them emails and put stuff on my website for 2 reasons: To tell those people the truth and show them that I think they are worthless. This is good for me (it's fun), it's good for others (to show them you can call them liars etc. without any fear for a lawsuit, which I don't have as I use their own words against them), also good because it shows others how those people manipulate others. E.g. a common one is claiming the people do something which they actually don't. This is apparantly also common in politics. It bogs down the competition and enables you to go ahead with your own plans without much resistance. An example is that airtravel industry people say the people who complain about the noise make 'emotional arguments' but when examining the arguments, it's actually the airtravel people (e.g. lobby group PNL, former director of Schiphol Gerlach 'the liar' Cerfontaine) who do this all the time.
Would you want to be taken seriously by such people? Who cares what those nutters think!
This is exactly the same as with copyright nonsense. RIAA type organisations abuse the law? Why not give something similar back to them...
To conclude: If you want to be taken seriously by doing everything respectfully, you won't get anywhere within a reasonable time. Also, why can't they do things like this when the opponent is lying/making up facts about lost income or economic problems caused by 'piracy' all the time?