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Magicjack Loses Legal Attack Against Boing Boing
An anonymous reader sends word that USB VOIP company Magicjack lost a lawsuit against Boing Boing when the judge declared the legal action a SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation). Magicjack must pay more than $50,000 in legal costs. Boing Boing has posted a page linking and summarizing all the legal documents relating to the lawsuit.
MagicJack SLAPPed a Boing Boing? Sounds dirty to me.
someone should advertise a TorJack solution, for perpetual Tor use. Once we get all devices using Tor, we win.
Wow. See how seriously I'm gonna take this story.
And you guys wonder why jocks like to beat us up...
Option number two looked warm, they took it, and it wasn't as clean an approach as they thought?
I give...
From the article;
In the lawsuit... It also alleged that I am a professional blogger.
I knew that bloggers were disreputable sources for Wikipedia, but I had no idea that being a blogger could be used against you in a court of law.
"MagicJack"
"Boing Boing"
"Twitter"
"Blog"
"Facebook"
The song was right: We've turned Japanese, people.
MagicJack are indeed stubborn pricks.
But take it no further: "Litigious bastards" is still a phrase best reserved for SCO.
John
I continue to be amused by the power switch on the MagicJack: MagicJack On. MagicJack Off.
this is their ploy to get us to read the articles.
http://www.accountkiller.com/removal-requested
Sued for defamation? That's not the half of it!
Someone's got to say it ...
How did they find themselves in a situation where they were receiving legal advice, unless they were already committed to assholery? When you're just sitting there minding your own business, lawyers don't just call you up out of the blue and spout advice at you before you can hang up.
Someone made a statement about MagicJack that MagicJack knew was true. MagicJack decided, "fuck the truth, I wonder if there's a way we can use force to shut them up." Ok, at that point a foolish lawyer might say, "Yes, I think I know a way that you can be a total motherfucking litigious asshole and successfully use force against this totally innocent party in order to suppress the truth," and a gullible MagicJack might believe that the lawyer was telling the truth.
But anyone who isn't evil, upon hearing that advice from their lawyer (let's ignore the fact that they had already proved themselves evil by even bothering to seek that advice), would say to their lawyer, "Well, that's interesting, Mr. Lawyer. I hope you enjoyed this intellectual exercise, but of course since I'm not a total mother-stabbing new-age-witchcraft-practicing father-raping puppy-shredding nun-strangling terrorist hippie racist moronic flat-earther sexist heretic robber-baron asshole Republican innocent-attacking bastard litigious prostitute kitten-poisoning jerk gay Scientologist thieving SCO homophobic Democrat shit-eating Nazi stupid criminal cocksucking evil Communist odious pig-fucking Christian pedophile nu-metal-wigger Romulan poo-head, I couldn't possibly actually proceed with such a case against a totally innocent party, even though I could successfully work my evil to advance the general cause of harming society and making the world a worse place. As much as I'd really like to, because I really do like injustice."
We know they're motherfuckers, and bad legal advice is totally beside the point. Accepting bad legal advice only means they're gullible motherfuckers.
Waste of time, really. All you have to do to get a BoingBoing post taken down is to somehow link the story to the words "Violet Blue."
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So they aren't litigious pricks, they are just court-happy jackasses?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
the lawyer. Regardless of the outcome, lawyers still get paid.
if he could use a hardware weapon
Well, if you count the apparently rather thick skull of his lawyer as hardware, I'd say that's exactly what he did.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.