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Re: Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains

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Post by themoonisachees »

nanocode wrote: post #45
themoonisachees wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Harsh judgement maybe but to me paying $500 for tickets to a convention about anything is drinking the kool-aid about that thing.

I don't know about all conferences, but in my line of work most conferences cost up to $2000 or even more (for example "late tickets" to a conference I'm attending in June cost $3000). I guess enough people (or rather, employers) consider it valuable enough to pay this price.

Yes, but you'd not be the one buying the tickets, your employer would.

As we know, prices that can be expensed out have a tendency to be considerably larger.

Re: Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains

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Post by anonzzzies »

datascienced wrote: post #9
lupire wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no legal threat here. It's all fake.

You need to pay a lawyer to find that out!

Depends on the region. I usually write (or now have gpt write) a letter with a bunch of fines in it back and that almost always shuts them up. I have never complied with any legal actions against me; I have been to court and that was cheap without a lawyer as well. I did nothing wrong, so I am quite confident I will always win; so far going strong for over 30 years since I am an adult and received such nonsense directed at me or my company.

I would never live in a country (guess US) where you need a kidney to defend yourself even if you did nothing wrong.

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Post by vkou »

spxneo wrote: post #55
antonvs wrote: post #13

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> completely inaccessible and non-existent to individuals or small companies. Even to medium companies. Only mega corps and law firms can afford to use the legal system. For individuals you have a point, but for small and medium companies this seems like an exaggeration. I've worked for several startups. The smallest was one that I co-founded with no outside funding - we maxed out at five employees, three of whom wer…

GP is talking about cost-prohibitiveness of legal counsel a large company can absolutely drain your small/medium business with frivolous lawsuits. the point is that Western judicial system largely caters to capital not justice.

> the point is that Western judicial system largely caters to capital not justice.

The problem is that there is no way to make it 'fair'. All the proposed reforms are also incredibly unfair, just in a slightly different way from what we have.

Re: Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains

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Post by francisdavey »

jimz wrote: post #85
francisdavey wrote: post #79

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Working out whether a lawyer is good, and more specifically good for what you want, is difficult even for another lawyer. People often ask me for recommendations of a lawyer outside my field, or indeed in my field if I can't help them because my firm is conflicted or for some other reason. The thing is I don't personally use lawyers, so I have only the vaguest idea. I can tell some things from firms' reputations and…

It's funny that the dynamic seems to be entirely reversed in criminal or collaterally-related-to-criminal matters since I could have told you by the time I graduated (and had been practicing on a limited license for a year) which attorney is more competent at what specific aspect of defense related work, and when I jumped to federal CJA work and then removals which is administrative entirely, it also took very little…

One big difference in England (I'm an English barrister, so that's my jurisdiction) is that most short civil proceedings end up being effectively closed to the public, or at least unlikely to be viewed by other barristers. Longer proceedings will typically be held in larger court centres where you are, again, less likely to see what fellow advocates are up to.

You do meet opponents, but in some fields, not often enough to really know.

In crime, your client would be in the cells much of the time and you could sit at the back of the court and watch lots of counsel do a good or bad job.

Of course even the civil bar do get to know each other in the way that commercial transactional lawyers - which is what I do now - don't have as much opportunity to do. I am typically dealing with commercial organizations all over the world. Too many lawyers to get to know.

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Post by francisdavey »

jimz wrote: post #85
francisdavey wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Working out whether a lawyer is good, and more specifically good for what you want, is difficult even for another lawyer. People often ask me for recommendations of a lawyer outside my field, or indeed in my field if I can't help them because my firm is conflicted or for some other reason. The thing is I don't personally use lawyers, so I have only the vaguest idea. I can tell some things from firms' reputations and…

It's funny that the dynamic seems to be entirely reversed in criminal or collaterally-related-to-criminal matters since I could have told you by the time I graduated (and had been practicing on a limited license for a year) which attorney is more competent at what specific aspect of defense related work, and when I jumped to federal CJA work and then removals which is administrative entirely, it also took very little…

I missed saying that in England (1) civil juries are essentially hen's teeth nowadays and (2) you don't tend to cross-over. Either you are in court most of the time, or advising on court proceedings, or you are a litigator (running those proceedings but not going to court) or you are a transactional lawyer who has nothing at all to do with them.

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Post by Animats »

Cheer2171 wrote: post #44
gentleman11 wrote: post #2

The root problem is that the legal system is completely inaccessible and non-existent to individuals or small companies. Even to medium companies. Only mega corps and law firms can afford to use the legal system. Even big tech often avoids it because of the expense, but if they do use it, they’re going to win, 99.9% of the time because of their war chests So, people are semi defenceless when these things come up, and…

I've sued several businesses and individuals in small claims court (in California) including two multinationals on the S&P 500. I have no formal legal training, only what every open source dev learns through licensing. The court bureaucracy was about as hard for me to learn than learning how to convert an out of state drivers license to my new state. Finding a process server was the hardest part. You write your accou…

> Finding a process server was the hardest part.

Why? Search brings up lots of them.

I once used a process server service called "Attila the Hun School of Charm". They are gone, but there's a "Gotcha Process Servers" in San Francisco.

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Post by geraldhh »

vkou wrote: post #94
spxneo wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GP is talking about cost-prohibitiveness of legal counsel a large company can absolutely drain your small/medium business with frivolous lawsuits. the point is that Western judicial system largely caters to capital not justice.

> the point is that Western judicial system largely caters to capital not justice. The problem is that there is no way to make it 'fair'. All the proposed reforms are also incredibly unfair, just in a slightly different way from what we have.

money is liquid democracy - kinda sad, but here we are

Re: Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains

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Post by geraldhh »

dudus wrote: post #82
nickff wrote: post #23

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Why did you sign up for a conference if you’re so uncertain as to its credibility and content? Is this an employer-sponsored outing?

I thought it was cheap. It said last tickets. I don't know ... that was stupid. It looked interesting at first. But when I started to research more I didn't find any buzz. I reported the event to eventbrite

sounds like you're getting cold feet from a sense of guilt for falling pray to fomo.

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Post by [deleted] »

celestialcheese wrote: post #74

This is so common, and has been for a number of years. As an owner of a website with a lot of content published over the years, a copyright claim pops up with "settlement" offers between $200-$1k to make it go away. 50% of the time it's an outright scam like this. 45% it's legit, we pay the settlement, and a writer gets a reminder about citing images and copyright. 5% is the worst, where a photographer will have a op…

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