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Senate Candidate Sued By Copyright Troll
The Iso writes "Las Vegas based company Righthaven found two articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal about Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle reprinted on her web site without permission, so it did what it always does: bought the rights to the articles from the Review-Journal and sued the alleged infringer, seeking unspecified damages."
This is Sharron Angle. She's going to crash and burn against Harry Reid, and never be a factor again. They don't need to worry about pissing her off, or her faction. They'll burn out in a couple of years, and hopefully they won't get a chance to ruin the country first.
Please mod this up...
Sharon Angle is (allegedly) involve with Scientology and she is getting racked over the coals because of it. Right now there is a microscope on her and this is very possibly one of those things someone noticed and busted her on it.
Too late to deny it.
I am the submitter of this story. I am a registered Libertarian and much more sympathetic to Sharron Angle than to Barack Obama.
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." - Bob Dylan
wtf?
Las Vegas based company Righthaven found two articles
annotate much?
from the Las Vegas Review-Journal
about Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle
reprinted on her web site
without permission
So... party A (annotated) found out that party B (annotated) was pirating (annotated) material (annotated) copyrighted by party C.
so it did what it always does
Unfounded libel much?
bought the rights to the articles from the Review-Journal and sued the alleged infringer, seeking unspecified damages.
So... party A saw a business opportunity and took it. I'd like to see a judge ask for party A's motivation for the acquisition. I would like to hope that judges will not take kindly to prostituting the law.
I'm not sure this story is relevant outside the USA. Quit it with the excessive nationalism.
Maybe they're scared that Sharon Angle will actually get elected. I mean, a look at her positions SHOULD scare even copyright trolls.
Having Harry Reid re-elected should scare them even more. That Wikipedia article is actually pretty biased and most of the citations come from hit pieces in liberal newspapers on behalf of Harry Reid's campaign. The quotes from Las Vegas Sun are particularly laughable as the Sun is practically a part of Reid's campaign team and it's a "newspaper" with tiny circulation even though it's given away for free.
Thinks global warming is a conspiracy?
No she doesn't. Like many conservatives she thinks that there is enough doubt about causes of warming and the effects, if any, that the proposed policies would have on it not to proceed with measures that could seriously damage the economy.
Eliminating the IRS
Not true. Even according to the Wikipedia article (or the Sun hit piece used as a citation in it), she never said so. She is for replacing the current IRS code with a simpler one, preferably a flat tax, as per Tea Party platform. Where did she say that IRS should be eliminated?
Abortion and pot regulation are frankly silly issues and while I don't agree with her there I don't think it's as big a deal as the issues I do agree with her on, such as decentralizing education, replacing pseudo-welfare Social Security with an actual retirement savings system, auditing the Fed and other government agencies etc. I think we need some anti-government senators even if they are slightly rough at the edges compared with professional Washington sleaze bags like Reid.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
So because a copyright troll sued a conservative it is somehow benign or OK? Nobody actually said that except you. Btw, Righthaven sued plenty of left wing sites too. They are apparently averaging several lawsuits per day so I don't really think there is a political agenda here.
Actually if you read the above comments, there's a few people saying that it's perfectly ok because she's a conservative - which is pretty much par for slashdot anymore.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
OH come now. I readily admit Fox is heavily conservative....after all their is always room for an opposing viewpoint. The liberals have NBC, CBS, ABC and most of CNN. The conservatives have Fox...fair enough. But truly while Fox puts it's own spin on the news they don't "create" news or tell outright lies. Unlike CBS and NBC....well, I take back that about CBS, Dan Rather retired so they went up about 100 notches now. Yeah, Beck's kooky and preachy and Hannity foams at the mouth from time to time but O'reilly really just likes poking fun at the libs. It's a fun network. I doubt they'll be coming to her rescue though.
First off, the fact that the UN expects union dues is utterly ridiculous. Secondly, look at any action (humanitarian, military, whatever) that the UN does - the overwhelming majority of it's money and other resources come straight out of US taxpayers pockets.
I hope the U.N. isn't there for you when you need it.
The only way the UN could be there for me is if I moved out of the US. The UN pretty much only exists anymore to rape the US for the rest of the world's benefit. It's utter bullshit that we're trillions and trillions of dollars in debt, yet every time someone sneezes in another country the US is expected to hand out billions and billions of dollars for them.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
we definitely need to put all Republicans on the "Do Not Fly" list after comments like this. I've heard more comments about "second amendment" rights from rabid Republicans in the last 18 months than I ever heard from Democrats. Democrats very clearly went out after Bush and pushed hard to get folks to VOTE for change. Republicans aren't getting any sympathy because their party was clearly not "Republican" for the previous 8 years, it was something like an armed camp. All the "average joe" Republicans would have been labeled "terrorists" 24 months ago, hell we were afraid of being on the "no fly" list just for Slashdot posts... and these people are saying this stuff in public assembly and the media.
Forget "election" time, these guys started talking like this BEFORE Obama was even in office conveniently ignoring the fact that "their man" walked away from all the responsibility to fix ANYTHING long before the elections ever happened.... like an Executive riding out severance for their "golden parachute".