Someone isn't happy with Drew (http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_patent_troll.html)

It is very apparent that the speaker lives in the present and has no vision. Yes, sending news via e-mail is trivial "TODAY", but it was not when the patent was filed or issued.

The speaker is old enough to remember the stacks of paper that we had to lug around as late as the turn of the century, so he is being disingenuous by trivializing the vision of the inventors and the value of patent.

I can say with great certainty that he and all those who infringed on the patent, either knew directly of its existence or chose to neglect looking for it, and properly licensing it from the inventor. I can say with great certainty that the inventor must have approached these companies, at one time or another, to license the patent, but with their usual "smug", "dishonest", "bullying" attitude demonstrated here, they may have laughed the guy out the door, if he ever got close to the door in the first place.

Trolls (as this guy calls them) are the great equalizers. If he and others like him where to respect rights of fellow citizens as enshrined by the constitutional mandate, we would not be in the need for trolls.

All in all, the piece is an attack on creative and visionaries who spend blood, sweat, sleepless nights and money to get something out to humanity, while a joker like this guy, think he is smart enough to use these Intellectual Properties, so he is not obligated to pay for it.

I would like to see him treating a song from iTunes or a video copy of a film the same way so he want us to treat patents. He won't, because he will pays $240K per copy and spend sometime in jail.

When my patents are issued, there will not be any settlements. Infringes will pay per copy. Laugh at that F,G,T,N,M,B,M,V,A,C,Z,A. See you guys in courts in Detroit.

Carousel Beast: Seriously, it's unbelievable. You Fark lefties are always screaming "Taking Points!" when your side are the ones that invented the damn things (some of us are old enough to remember the weekly "Talking Point" faxes the Clinton administration used to send out various friendly media outlets).

How about you guys take your heads out of your assess and learn to think for yourselves?

I don't know what you think your little point is, but you've chosen to express yourself in such trollish way that you've just earned a coveted spot on my ignore list. Congrats!

Corvus
Fark.com founder links patent trolls with 'terrorists'

"Compares" - yes! "Links" - NO!
Fox News doesn't seem to understand what English words mean.

Ah, but what they do understand is to catch people's attention by using misleading or flat-out wrong headlines.


/ yeah, I also had to cringe reading that headline, making it sound like Drew found out how terrorists and trolls are working hand-in-hand

MrEricSir: Carousel Beast: Seriously, it's unbelievable. You Fark lefties are always screaming "Taking Points!" when your side are the ones that invented the damn things (some of us are old enough to remember the weekly "Talking Point" faxes the Clinton administration used to send out various friendly media outlets).

How about you guys take your heads out of your assess and learn to think for yourselves?

I don't know what you think your little point is, but you've chosen to express yourself in such trollish way that you've just earned a coveted spot on my ignore list. Congrats!

.
.
Avoiding reality is just grand.

I'm pretty sure Drew's legal team didn't vet this speech.



"I didn't say that, did I? I didn't. Is it me? It's not me, is it? I didn't say that."

What about the Pricipal Caught Sayyaf terrorists?

...All right, which one of you wrote this in the article comments?

fark is a lib h e ll hole. went there once and once was enough. why the h e l l is foxnews giving this loathsome clown any any kind of attention????
disgusting

yoyoyo: Someone isn't happy with Drew (http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_patent_troll.html)

It is very apparent that the speaker lives in the present and has no vision. Yes, sending news via e-mail is trivial "TODAY", but it was not when the patent was filed or issued...

I kept waiting for the punchline.

TheShavingofOccam123: I'm pretty sure Drew's legal team didn't vet this speech.

[www.grinningplanet.com image 178x132]

"I didn't say that, did I? I didn't. Is it me? It's not me, is it? I didn't say that."

Why are you bieng so defensive?

Meh, Drew sold out to Fox News a while back. Nothing new.

Hagbardr: Can we use drone missile strikes on patent trolls?

I like how the screengrab they have includes the phrase "overly sensitive douchebags" in one of the headlines.

I don't think terrorist was horribly accurate. Besides being an over-used word that is losing meaning, it does not reflect what patent trolls do accurately.

"Don't negogate with pirates" would be more accurate. They just want to take a piece of the pie using morally questionable methods.

So, which terrorist group is it like when site users are charged $5 a month to access content they generate themselves?

/Besides Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de CKolombia

As a long time farker I applaud this news!

As a troll I don't know what to think.

/as a Republican I'm loving all this liberal buttmad about Drew, these people must be knew here and missed the huge uprising when Drew rightfully called out John Stewart

Trolls are either annoying or funny, but their goal is not profit from someone else's work and risk.

I suggest that 'patent tolls' become 'patent pirates', maybe 'patent parasite' because it is what they do.

david_gaithersburg: Avoiding reality is just grand.

If your version of "reality" is being hounded by obnoxious trolls, your life must really suck.

Corvus: Fark.com founder links patent trolls with 'terrorists'

"Compares" - yes! "Links" - NO!

Fox News doesn't seem to understand what English words mean.

That bothered me as well.

You got a guy here who takes not news, makes news of it, and the news people can't make any news sense of it.

Just unbefarkinglievible.

For his part, Curtis uses a unique way to fight trolls. He rarely engages with them at all.

true, we see evidence of that every day in the politics tab

ds_4815: fark is a lib h e ll hole. went there once and once was enough. why the h e l l is foxnews giving this loathsome clown any any kind of attention????

"loathsome clown?" I love it when people act like Drew writes the entire website.

I mean, collectively we may all be loathsome clowns, but that's a little strong just for Drew.

ds_4815: ...All right, which one of you wrote this in the article comments?

fark is a lib h e ll hole. went there once and once was enough. why the h e l l is foxnews giving this loathsome clown any any kind of attention????
disgusting

Well, they're commenting on a Fox website. Anything left of Fox is "a lib h e ll hole" to someone who watches Fox regularly, I suppose.

Of course, to me, Fark seems like a crazy melange of left, right, center, and just plain ol' crazy.

PanicMan: Corvus: Fark.com founder links patent trolls with 'terrorists'

"Compares" - yes! "Links" - NO!

Fox News doesn't seem to understand what English words mean.

That bothered me as well.

Meh.





They don't worry about stretching the truth a little.

cryinoutloud: ds_4815: fark is a lib h e ll hole. went there once and once was enough. why the h e l l is foxnews giving this loathsome clown any any kind of attention????

"loathsome clown?" I love it when people act like Drew writes the entire website.

I mean, collectively we may all be loathsome clowns, but that's a little strong just for Drew.


I am Drew. I assumed we all were. You're not? Weird...

ecl: I am Drew. I assumed we all were. You're not? Weird...

Well, the A/2s always were a bit twitchy

Bathia_Mapes: It's Drew's way of acknowledging the free publicity these sites have given fark.

And no obligation for royalty payments.

yoyoyo: Someone isn't happy with Drew (http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_patent_troll.html)

It is very apparent that the speaker lives in the present and has no vision. Yes, sending news via e-mail is trivial "TODAY", but it was not when the patent was filed or issued.

The speaker is old enough to remember the stacks of paper that we had to lug around as late as the turn of the century, so he is being disingenuous by trivializing the vision of the inventors and the value of patent.

I can say with great certainty that he and all those who infringed on the patent, either knew directly of its existence or chose to neglect looking for it, and properly licensing it from the inventor. I can say with great certainty that the inventor must have approached these companies, at one time or another, to license the patent, but with their usual "smug", "dishonest", "bullying" attitude demonstrated here, they may have laughed the guy out the door, if he ever got close to the door in the first place.

Trolls (as this guy calls them) are the great equalizers. If he and others like him where to respect rights of fellow citizens as enshrined by the constitutional mandate, we would not be in the need for trolls.

All in all, the piece is an attack on creative and visionaries who spend blood, sweat, sleepless nights and money to get something out to humanity, while a joker like this guy, think he is smart enough to use these Intellectual Properties, so he is not obligated to pay for it.

I would like to see him treating a song from iTunes or a video copy of a film the same way so he want us to treat patents. He won't, because he will pays $240K per copy and spend sometime in jail.

When my patents are issued, there will not be any settlements. Infringes will pay per copy. Laugh at that F,G,T,N,M,B,M,V,A,C,Z,A. See you guys in courts in Detroit.

I'd never seen that $500B number till now. If that's correct...damn.

Drew interviewed by Fox News?

Can the NAMBLA newsletter be far behind?

EBN-OZN: yoyoyo: Someone isn't happy with Drew (http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_patent_troll.html)

It is very apparent that the speaker lives in the present and has no vision. Yes, sending news via e-mail is trivial "TODAY", but it was not when the patent was filed or issued.

The speaker is old enough to remember the stacks of paper that we had to lug around as late as the turn of the century, so he is being disingenuous by trivializing the vision of the inventors and the value of patent.

I can say with great certainty that he and all those who infringed on the patent, either knew directly of its existence or chose to neglect looking for it, and properly licensing it from the inventor. I can say with great certainty that the inventor must have approached these companies, at one time or another, to license the patent, but with their usual "smug", "dishonest", "bullying" attitude demonstrated here, they may have laughed the guy out the door, if he ever got close to the door in the first place.

Trolls (as this guy calls them) are the great equalizers. If he and others like him where to respect rights of fellow citizens as enshrined by the constitutional mandate, we would not be in the need for trolls.

All in all, the piece is an attack on creative and visionaries who spend blood, sweat, sleepless nights and money to get something out to humanity, while a joker like this guy, think he is smart enough to use these Intellectual Properties, so he is not obligated to pay for it.

I would like to see him treating a song from iTunes or a video copy of a film the same way so he want us to treat patents. He won't, because he will pays $240K per copy and spend sometime in jail.

When my patents are issued, there will not be any settlements. Infringes will pay per copy. Laugh at that F,G,T,N,M,B,M,V,A,C,Z,A. See you guys in courts in Detroit.



[i0.kym-cdn.com image 533x594]

Carousel Beast: MrEricSir: Fox is okay with calling patent trolls "terrorists", but not okay with using the word "war" to describe the right's attack on women?

Double standard much?

Wow, you are an incredible idiot. You do realize this was a Democratic faux controversy/talking point a year in the making, don't you?

Link

Seriously, it's unbelievable. You Fark lefties are always screaming "Taking Points!" when your side are the ones that invented the damn things (some of us are old enough to remember the weekly "Talking Point" faxes the Clinton administration used to send out various friendly media outlets).

How about you guys take your heads out of your assess and learn to think for yourselves?


Oh, I thought we were supposed to listen to you...

Carousel Beast: MrEricSir: Fox is okay with calling patent trolls "terrorists", but not okay with using the word "war" to describe the right's attack on women?

Double standard much?

Wow, you are an incredible idiot. You do realize this was a Democratic faux controversy/talking point a year in the making, don't you?

Link

Seriously, it's unbelievable. You Fark lefties are always screaming "Taking Points!" when your side are the ones that invented the damn things (some of us are old enough to remember the weekly "Talking Point" faxes the Clinton administration used to send out various friendly media outlets).

How about you guys take your heads out of your assess and learn to think for yourselves?

How about any asswit on Fark using phrases like "you lefties" has a slot on my ignore? Done.

ciberido: MrEricSir: Fox is okay with calling patent trolls "terrorists", but not okay with using the word "war" to describe the right's attack on women?

I wouldn't call them terrorists, but they ARE criminals who should be behind bars. Wouldn't even have to be an especially harsh sentence. A few 2- or 3-year prison sentences, and this crap would .. well, not go away completely, but diminish.

Can we put spammers behind bars, too?

The Massive Douche Act of 2012.

Gyrfalcon: Ashtrey: ciberido: MrEricSir: Fox is okay with calling patent trolls "terrorists", but not okay with using the word "war" to describe the right's attack on women?

I wouldn't call them terrorists, but they ARE criminals who should be behind bars. Wouldn't even have to be an especially harsh sentence. A few 2- or 3-year prison sentences, and this crap would .. well, not go away completely, but diminish.

Can we put spammers behind bars, too?

The Massive Douche Act of 2012.

Works for me if we can use it on idiots like the one who almost ran me down in the parking lot today and then stared at me like some bovine creature when I honked my horn.

Or people who try to turn left on certain streets during certain times. Let's run with this thing. E-mailing my congressman tomorrow.

They got through the whole article without once mentioning Intellectual Ventures or Nathan Myhrvold. That's some good reportin' there Lou.

Kit Fister: 9beers: I had the idea for Fark in 1997.

I created the prototype in 1983. ;D

/and they told me it'd never catch on!

I came up with the Smart/Funny buttons.

/sorry.

MrEricSir: Fox is okay with calling patent trolls "terrorists", but not okay with using the word "war" to describe the right's attack on women?

Double standard much?

No no no! Wars are only on Christmas!

Enemabag Jones: I don't think terrorist was horribly accurate. Besides being an over-used word that is losing meaning, it does not reflect what patent trolls do accurately.

"Don't negogate with pirates" would be more accurate. They just want to take a piece of the pie using morally questionable methods.

Like having a flag?

doyner: In 1995 I patented "Promoting one's agenda by building a news aggregation site and then appearing in a streaming video which gets media attention." I think I might be able to sue Drew for this.
But I am willing to settle for a free lifetime subscription to TF. My attorney is drawing up the paperwork as we speak.

Drew will cave on this, as he is tired from his recent battles. Then he'll put that filter on your posts that makes you sound like you're Richard Simmons.