I didn't bring it up, someone dredged up his comments from the older story. I was just clarifying that the wealth issue has nothing to do with the copyright issue, it's just a dig.
Her wealth has nothing to do with whether it's a copyright infringement. It has everything to do with her being greedy and selfish and forgetting from whence she came.
I've read the PDFs. Sometimes there are things that make a Sunday Morning Sunrise seem happier, with better glow, and the light of truth spreads across the land.
Thank you Mr. Beckerman.
Sir, you rock.
As much as I respect NYCL, the reason you don't see more like him is that it doesn't pay. Being noble is difficult when it effects your ability to feed your kids.
Huh? He is still getting paid handsomely for his services.
His ability to feed all the kids a man can father is certainly not in any danger. He might have chosen to work for someone enabling him to feed his kids beluga caviar each day, but he will not go broke any day soon.
Just to set the record straight. 1. The only reason you hadn't heard from me in 8 days was that there wasn't anything newsworthy enough, by Slashdot's standards, to report.
2. Representing poor and working class people being sued by a cartel of multinational corporations does not pay well. Every lawyer representing an RIAA defendant is suffering financially for doing it, including me.
Writing a story about yourself in the third person?
Crowing about how muted and controlled your footnote response was?
Brag much?
I miss the somewhat more.. objective and clean Groklaw postings. Oh well.
If your point is that PJ is a better journalist than I am.... I wholeheartedly agree with you.
What I'm doing -- cataloguing, documenting, and sometimes publicizing -- the details of the RIAA litigation campaign, is a job I wish I didn't have. I do it because no one else is doing it, and it has be done if we are to counter the RIAA's information monopoly.
If PJ wants to take it over, I would be delighted!
Well, personally I hope you are successful enough that the word "Beckerman" strikes terror in the hearts of all RIAA members and their lawyers.
Well I think they already don't like me much. As evidenced by them putting their own careers on the line by reaching out to lie about me as they did, in a futile attempt to besmirch my reputation.
I'm just glad to see that the RIAA has a terrorist enemy...
It is they who are the terrorists. I'm just an ordinary lawyer trying to help protect the rights of innocent people from a pack of extortionist bullies who don't care about what is legal or what is right.
I think the RIAA legal team 'needs' to be begging on the street to pay for their next meal.
I don't hate them really, I just hate what they have chosen to do.
I don't know if it's so Quixotic. After all, it's a legal battle in a court of law. And I have the law on my side. Doesn't that give me the advantage, ultimately?
Ray, When are you going to get an Amazon wishlist and cash in on all this slashlove you're getting?
All I want is for people to buy stuff for themselves, but buy it through my Ad Links, so I can get a commission. That will help to finance the work I'm doing. A good place to start would be with buying some of the nice, independent, non-RIAA, music I have listed.
If I were NYCL my focus would be converting more of my peers, raising an army against the RIAA.
That really has been my focus. The purpose of the blog was to empower other lawyers. Since I started it, more and more lawyers have come into the fold. I give them free listings in my "Directory of Defense Lawyers" and we try to help each other whenever we can. Are there enough lawyers doing it? No. But more and more are coming into the fight.
moderation in your submittals is what makes me read every one you post
Thank you. I appreciate that.
I try to keep in mind the distinction between my blog and my Slashdot submissions.
In my blog, I just try to give complete information, so that lawyers representing defendants won't get caught off guard by anything that happens and will have a full set of legal resources to use in preparing their own arguments and legal documents. I.e. I post things that aren't really surprising or newsworthy, but they're just useful information to have in one place.
My Slashdot submissions are confined to things that I think the world should know about. However, Slashdot's editors don't always agree with my assessment and more of my submissions are rejected than submitted.
One thing I try to do, which I see in Groklaw, but nowhere else in the news world, is to give people access to the actual legal documents, so they can make up their minds for themselves. I hate reading news articles about legal events where the articles do not share with the reader copies of any of the underlying documents. In this day and age, where almost all federal litigation is electronic and there are *pdf files of every document, I feel there is no excuse for holding back on that.
Why haven't we seen NYCL here for a while? Court gag order or something?
I submitted 2 stories on October 28th, one of which got accepted, one of which got rejected. Since then there just hasn't been any Slashdot-worthy RIAA litigation news.
Slashdot Mirror
Could you give this topic a rest?
I didn't bring it up, someone dredged up his comments from the older story. I was just clarifying that the wealth issue has nothing to do with the copyright issue, it's just a dig.
Even this judge recognized that a reference work to a copyrighted fictional work is indeed a fair use.
In other words, you didn't get enough self-righteous indignation in at NYCL last time so you want a rehash of the same bullshit.
Thank you for pointing that out. Such an obvious troll.
Her wealth has nothing to do with whether it's a copyright infringement. It has everything to do with her being greedy and selfish and forgetting from whence she came.
...(c) imitation of J. K. Rowling's writing style in portions...
Is that even an enforceable law?
No, it isn't, IMHO.
I've read the PDFs. Sometimes there are things that make a Sunday Morning Sunrise seem happier, with better glow, and the light of truth spreads across the land. Thank you Mr. Beckerman. Sir, you rock.
Thank you, gavron. Very much appreciated.
I wonder what rating the movie would get from MPAA
I was hoping for an NC-17.
i'll bet they removed you from their Christmas card list too, eh
I don't think these guys have a Christmas list. I think they have a Halloween list.
[...] I have the law on my side. Doesn't that give me the advantage, ultimately?
You're new to this law-thing, right?
Yeah. I've only been doing it 34 years.
Well I'm glad someone got it.
As much as I respect NYCL, the reason you don't see more like him is that it doesn't pay. Being noble is difficult when it effects your ability to feed your kids.
Huh? He is still getting paid handsomely for his services. His ability to feed all the kids a man can father is certainly not in any danger. He might have chosen to work for someone enabling him to feed his kids beluga caviar each day, but he will not go broke any day soon.
Just to set the record straight.
1. The only reason you hadn't heard from me in 8 days was that there wasn't anything newsworthy enough, by Slashdot's standards, to report.
2. Representing poor and working class people being sued by a cartel of multinational corporations does not pay well. Every lawyer representing an RIAA defendant is suffering financially for doing it, including me.
Writing a story about yourself in the third person? Crowing about how muted and controlled your footnote response was? Brag much? I miss the somewhat more.. objective and clean Groklaw postings. Oh well.
If your point is that PJ is a better journalist than I am.... I wholeheartedly agree with you.
What I'm doing -- cataloguing, documenting, and sometimes publicizing -- the details of the RIAA litigation campaign, is a job I wish I didn't have. I do it because no one else is doing it, and it has be done if we are to counter the RIAA's information monopoly.
If PJ wants to take it over, I would be delighted!
Well, personally I hope you are successful enough that the word "Beckerman" strikes terror in the hearts of all RIAA members and their lawyers.
Well I think they already don't like me much. As evidenced by them putting their own careers on the line by reaching out to lie about me as they did, in a futile attempt to besmirch my reputation.
How would NYCL react to his being cast as Jack Nicholson?
I don't really care who they cast as me, as long as they give me a nice fee -- like maybe 5% of what Jack Nicholson gets for a movie.
Still, I'm sure you wouldn't like to remain in the minds of most people looking like Tom Cruise.
OK make it Ron Perlman. (But don't forget about my fee.)
:)
Sorry about that.
I guess someone with your quick wit knows that I meant that they've 'rejected more than they've accepted'.
As to mathematics I have only this to say:
There are 3 kinds of people.
Those that are good in Math.
And those that aren't.
I'm just glad to see that the RIAA has a terrorist enemy...
It is they who are the terrorists. I'm just an ordinary lawyer trying to help protect the rights of innocent people from a pack of extortionist bullies who don't care about what is legal or what is right.
I think the RIAA legal team 'needs' to be begging on the street to pay for their next meal. I don't hate them really, I just hate what they have chosen to do.
Well you don't know them as well as I do.
May you succeed in this seemingly Quixotic quest.
I don't know if it's so Quixotic. After all, it's a legal battle in a court of law. And I have the law on my side. Doesn't that give me the advantage, ultimately?
Ray, When are you going to get an Amazon wishlist and cash in on all this slashlove you're getting?
All I want is for people to buy stuff for themselves, but buy it through my Ad Links, so I can get a commission. That will help to finance the work I'm doing. A good place to start would be with buying some of the nice, independent, non-RIAA, music I have listed.
awesome! Bookmarked! Done :-) Thanks Ray
Thanks very much zappepcs. And if you think of anything you want that's not advertised on the blog, let me know so I can try to get it up there.
The RIAA voluntarily dismissed this case
Well they don't have the power to dismiss it at this stage, only the Court does. They've made a motion asking for the case to be dismissed.
If I were NYCL my focus would be converting more of my peers, raising an army against the RIAA.
That really has been my focus. The purpose of the blog was to empower other lawyers. Since I started it, more and more lawyers have come into the fold. I give them free listings in my "Directory of Defense Lawyers" and we try to help each other whenever we can. Are there enough lawyers doing it? No. But more and more are coming into the fight.
moderation in your submittals is what makes me read every one you post
Thank you. I appreciate that.
I try to keep in mind the distinction between my blog and my Slashdot submissions.
In my blog, I just try to give complete information, so that lawyers representing defendants won't get caught off guard by anything that happens and will have a full set of legal resources to use in preparing their own arguments and legal documents. I.e. I post things that aren't really surprising or newsworthy, but they're just useful information to have in one place.
My Slashdot submissions are confined to things that I think the world should know about. However, Slashdot's editors don't always agree with my assessment and more of my submissions are rejected than submitted.
One thing I try to do, which I see in Groklaw, but nowhere else in the news world, is to give people access to the actual legal documents, so they can make up their minds for themselves. I hate reading news articles about legal events where the articles do not share with the reader copies of any of the underlying documents. In this day and age, where almost all federal litigation is electronic and there are *pdf files of every document, I feel there is no excuse for holding back on that.
Maybe he needs a donation page?
Well this would be even better.
Why haven't we seen NYCL here for a while? Court gag order or something?
I submitted 2 stories on October 28th, one of which got accepted, one of which got rejected. Since then there just hasn't been any Slashdot-worthy RIAA litigation news.