Playboy Drops Its Copyright Case Against Boing Boing (eff.org)

An anonymous reader quotes the EFF: Playboy Entertainment has given up on its lawsuit against Happy Mutants, LLC, the company behind Boing Boing. Earlier this month, a federal court dismissed Playboy's claims but gave Playboy permission to try again with a new complaint, if it could dig up some new facts. The deadline for filing that new complaint passed this week, and today Playboy released a statement suggesting that it is standing down...

It's hard to understand why Playboy brought this case in the first place, turning its legal firepower on a small news and commentary website that hadn't uploaded or hosted any infringing content. We're also a little perplexed as to why Playboy seems so unhappy that the Boing Boing post is still up when the links they complain about have been dead for almost two years.

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[Anonymous Coward]

is /. back? hope so...

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[Anonymous Coward]

Now with more social justice!!

Fuck whi*e people!

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[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. Fuck then. Going around, building ALL civilizations with the exception of just a few. Damn whitey bringing law and order at moments of cut throat brutality in history. Damn whitey even now, inventing flight, the automobile, rockets and space age flight, the internet and the the smart phone we use to slander them. White bastards bring the world satilites and fiber optics, literally connecting the world and information.

Yeah. White people sure do suck. And without them, we be better off, riding our horses and raping the neighbors wife and maybe some murder until itâ(TM)s your turn. Yes. Much better indeed. Or the same things would have been invented anyway. But they were not. And still itâ(TM)s the same story who innovates. After thinking about it all.

Maybe white people are just better. Now and then. They were better conquers when that was the world. They were better settlers when that was the world. They were better organizers and better users of resources. They were just better. And today, we hate them for being better what all our ethnicities tried the exact same. And failed. Pecausevwhite people were just better.

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> Damn whitey bringing law and order at moments of cut throat brutality in history.

Yeah, the law was a useful tool to rationalize their genocide of native American people. (As well as African and Indian populations too.) British law never had a problem starting a war with the Chinese because the local gov'ts wouldn't allow them to sell narcotics to their populations.

> Yeah. White people sure do suck.

That's what happens when they are responsible for genociding populations of human beings. All the way back to the Romans and the Carthaginians.

> And without them, we be better off, riding our horses and raping the neighbors wife and maybe some murder until itâ(TM)s your turn.

And you think that's an innovation of non-white people??? Mighty White of you to think so.

> They were better conquers when that was the world.

Genghis and his progeny would probably not be in agreement with that notion. And it looks like the Chinese are preparing to kick white ass after the white people voted that incompetent orange boob into power.

> They were better settlers when that was the world.

Probably because they were better psychopathic murderers. They practically genocided the native American population. Which only makes them technologically more advanced than native Americans at the time.

> Because white people were just better.

At rationalizing their string of success for the past 400 years, like NE Patriot fans. And it was mostly technology advanced by the Jews of the Diaspora. Do Jews count as white people? White people weren't better at anything compared to the rest of the world before that time. They couldn't even kick out the Arabs from their White "Holy" lands, or manage advanced numeric calculations (hard to do without zero).

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I did nothing of that, so I don't care.

Even though some people say I should feel gulity.

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[Anonymous Coward]

You are aware that the guy you're replying to is just a troll who wants to hijack discussions & divide people and probably does this for a living, right?

This is why Trump goes to prison

[Anonymous Coward]

with all the other traitors.

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[Anonymous Coward]

HIllary lost the election. Now take your meds and get over it.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot should really start IP banning and maybe even shadow-banning trolls like the above two. It's completely obvious that they post this off-topic drivel early in threads to hijack them and sometimes even reply with their own sockpuppet accounts to them to get a "discussion" going. I say, IP ban them for 3 weeks, and if they continue to post from the same IP, shadow-ban them forever.

Netcraft Confirms It: Slashdot is Dying

[Nova Express]

It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Slashdot is dying.

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when posters confirmed that the site had not been updated since March 1 and that much of the functionality (including login) was broken. Coming on the heels of a yet another slew of Social Justice Warrioring posts about women in tech, this news serves to reinforce what we’ve known all along. Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray.

You don’t need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Slashdot’s future. The handwriting is on the wall: Slashdot faces a bleak future. In fact there won’t be any future at all for Slashdot, because Slashdot is dying. Things are looking very bad for Slashdot. As many of us are already aware, Slashdot continues to lose readership. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

(Well, somebody had to do it. What, no front page story about the outage?)

Re: Netcraft Confirms It: Slashdot is Dying

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. And the sad thing is when /. Finally dies it will be blamed on white people. It is white people who we blame for not supporting the the sites that hates white people. Remember if you are white and you do not hate yourself you are racist

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Playboy always helped my boing boing

Context

[wonkey_monkey]

It's hard to understand why Playboy brought this case in the first place, turning its legal firepower on a small news and commentary website that hadn't uploaded or hosted any infringing content.

It's even harder to understand when sites like Slashdot just slap together a couple of paragraphs from the article without any care for which parts are actually pertinent and informative.

This, at the very least, should have been included:

This case began when Playboy filed suit accusing Boing Boing of copyright infringement for reporting on a historical collection of Playboy centerfolds and linking to a third-party site.

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[Anonymous Coward]

There is legal precedent. The 2600 CSS case involved publishing a link. 2600 lost.

Not very many people cared then. Iâ(TM)m sure there will be more cases in the future.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Playboy is owned jointly by Saudi and Qatari intelligence, the same people who own and censor Twitter. BoingBoing is a client of Jamaat-e-Islami and runs jihad propaganda. They are allies, so a lawsuit between them can be quietly settled.

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[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Thank you. I read the summary and noticed that the 'editor' hadn't bothered to include so much as a single word explaining what the lawsuit was about.