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Ridiculing legal threats

I'm not endorsing illegal distribution of copyrighted content, however - the owner of this site provides some funny answers to legal threats by various companies and their lawyer droids: You have scored 10 out of 10 points on our Legal Threats Entertainment scale. You win the grand prize: A lifetime of ridicule on our legal threats section (http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/) ! Congratulations! Please also note that I'm not currently out of toilet paper, so you may wait a while before sending legal papers. Please also note the two fun charts at the bottom of the page. Legal threats against The Pirate Bay

Berkeley Professor threatens thief of his laptop

Professor Jasper Rine is a professor at UC Berkely and had his laptop stolen. After a class at the university he addressed the thief to hand back the laptop. ( Transcript , video ) He seems to be quite angry at the thief and threatens to track him down (with the help of Microsoft, the FBI, Federal Marshals, the SEC an the FTC). Apparently there was very important data on that laptop,although the thief was most probably only looking for exam data. The first thing we should ask here is why all of this so important and secret data was stored on a laptop unencrypted, why there is no backup and why anybody would let someone even come near such important data? To me this rant sounds very much like a rather pathetic attempt to cover up for his own goof-ups and scare. Secondly, let's analyse the claims a little bit more: "he was not smart enough to immediately remove Windows. I installed the same version of Windows on another computer - within fifteen minutes the people in Redmond Was...

Verizon CEO does not get the cluetrain

In an interview , Verizon's CEO Ivan Seidenberg ridiculed customer complaints: Seidenberg, for instance, said people often complain about mobile phone service because they have unrealistic expectations about a wireless service working everywhere. Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone, is the state's largest mobile phone provider. "Why in the world would you think your (cell) phone would work in your house?" he said. "The customer has come to expect so much. They want it to work in the elevator; they want it to work in the basement." Seidenberg said it's not Verizon's responsibility to correct the misconception by giving out statistics on how often Verizon's service works inside homes or by distributing more detailed coverage maps, showing all the possible dead zones. He pointed out that there are five major wireless networks, none of which works perfectly everywhere. Let me repeat this: 1) "The customer has come to expect...

Passwords Alone Don't Protect Trade Secrets

Another proof that technology alone is not enough to keep important information secret; we'll have to establish policies and processes that explain people the meaning of tagging informaton confidential. Passwords Alone Don't Protect Trade Secrets : " A court ruled that simply password-protecting a file isn't enough to make it a trade secret. "