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I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for them to send one of these extortion notices to the wrong guy who will get enraged enough to shoot up their office. I won
by zalzane 14y ago
I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for them to send one of these extortion notices to the wrong guy who will get enraged enough to shoot up their office.
I wonder if a chain of such shootings would set a precedent for change.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoThat would be way too expensive, I'm sure they hold a patent on a method on expressing customer dissatisfaction via chemical reactions to convert chemical energy into kinetic motion.
- jetti 14y agoHow would that one individual even find them? PO boxes and a "legal department call center" are all that seem to be given and it would seem difficult to track them down.
- johnnymonster 14y agoCrazy people... they get crazy. Camp out at the PO box and wait for someone to pick up the mail. Get a job at that UPS store location. Pay off one of the kid employees that work there to give you the name and address on file. Follow the person that picks up the mail home. Look up his information based on his home address. Collect all his trash, find out where he works. follow him to work. then wreak havoc on all his coworkers! you are really not all that creative are you... :)
- jetti 14y agoWell...it looks like I'm not going to be sending you any patent infringement paperwork (whether it is legit or not)! Although, for somebody who has just snapped and is going to wreak physical vengeance, I wouldn't put a normal thought process behind it. Which means you may not be able to count on logically thinking and finding these people.
- ill_throw44 14y agoMentally ill or "crazy" people may still be able to think logically. Having experienced psychotic episodes that included planning "bad" things, I can assure you it did not interfere with logical planning. Recounting it later, the clarity of thought was quite clear, disturbingly. The Unabomber is a well-known example. Someone's goals, utility functions, and even certainty values for some beliefs may be very different than "normal", but it doesn't mean they aren't able to reason logically within those constraints.
- johnnymonster 14y agoor just pay a private investigator to do all that for you.
- sigsergv 14y agoIs it legal?
- krakensden 14y agoCertainly. It's what you do after that's problematic.
- angdis 14y agoIt is amazing how much rage a story like this can produce in people who work in non-legal professions. The law-firms involved, of course, don't see it that way. This is just work for them-- although I can't fathom how they can sleep at night making a living by being what amounts to a parasite.
- zalzane 14y agoWell, I guess that's why nobody likes lawyers.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoI've worked in a situation where I believed that what I was doing was fairly unethical. I wasn't sending out bogus legal threats, but I was doing development work for a company I consider flat-out evil. I dealt with it by donating all the money I made during those hours to a relevant charity. It helped.
- meric 14y agoMight need to donate more - for every $1 you got paid, the evil company received more than $1 of benefit. ;)
- driverdan 14y agoRight, let's call for violence. Violence will solve the problem. There's nothing wrong with shooting people who's legal business practices you disagree with.
- Torgo 14y agoMaybe it can be done in a Stand Your Ground state. I'm sure that the patent trolls won't mind, as long as it's "completely within the bounds of the law," just as their business is.
- monochromatic 14y agoI think you misunderstand what "stand your ground" laws are actually about.
- Torgo 14y agoIt was a joke, mod me down accordingly if you like.
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