Barney Surrenders To the EFF 125
davidwr writes, "Earlier this year, EFF sued the Barney the Dinosaur people for harassing a Barney parody web site. Well, Barney finally surrendered, err I mean, learned to share. For more, read the case history at the EFF site."
From the settlement agreemenr ... (Score:4, Informative)
Reading this please make your own conclusions about the inner structure of the underlying legal system (IMAGINE YOU WOULD STRUCTURE CODE THE SAME WAY!).
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You don't want to sue us anymore... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:From the settlement agreemenr ... (Score:5, Informative)
Reading this sort of legalese is actually quite simple: whenever you see an agglomeration of terms like that, read the first one, and mentally replace the rest of them with "or similar". It's actually quite similar to programming, since you need to explicity enumerate the cases. Neither computers nor lawyers are very good with fuzziness.
The code equivalent would be
if(is_party($complainant) || is_party_director($complainant) || is_party_agent($complainant) || is_party_servant($complainant) || is_party_employee($complainant) || is_party_parent($complainant)....)
Yes, you need to include all the clauses in order for the if() statement to work properly.
Britney Lost (Score:1, Informative)
Agreed on Britney. I don't even recognize her face any more. Just look at these [taxidrivermovie.com]. Looks nothing like her in the second pic.
Re:Hang on, wait.. (Score:5, Informative)
And as to the Snoutintroff claim we somehow "persuaded" Ed Felten to withdraw from a talk as a media stunt, it's worth reading what Felten himself had to say [freedom-to-tinker.com] about that period. Chilled speech, baseless legal threats, people losing jobs because they stand up for their right to reveal security flaws. That's what EFF fights.
It's worth spending time reading EFF's actual track record - either from our list of victories [eff.org], or from the Wikipedia list [wikipedia.org].
(Or hell, just read our press releases from the last week [eff.org] where we were filing an amicus brief to defend constitutional protection for stored email, began a case to investigate and correct some 18,000 missing votes in an apparent e-voting mess-up in a Florida seat that was won by less than 400 votes, and filing an FOIA request to uncover the details of EU passenger records being handed over to the US government. And that's what we did on a Thanksgiving week - with a staff of around 30, and a budget that's a fiftieth of the size of the ACLU, and a twentieth of what the MPAA spend on Washington lobbying alone. And consider becoming a member [eff.org] if you're impressed - you have no idea how much every extra membership helps, nor how much there is left to do.)
Re:Five years ago, I got C&D'd by Barney... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Why not? (Score:5, Informative)
Obviously, I am not a lawyer and you should not use this as legal advice. Otherwise, I would have smacked you down with much more wit and knowledge, that which is gained from more than five seconds on google.
Re:Hang on, wait.. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Barney isn't stopped! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Hang on, wait.. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Hang on, wait.. (Score:2, Informative)