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13Pandora13
Nov 5, 2008

I've got tiiits that swingle dangle dingle




Say Nothing posted:

Goon Hitler standing by...



Guntler

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banned from Starbucks
Jul 18, 2004




Goddamnit suing people for reasons related to Hitler was my secret post high school dream job.

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Tag yourself, here's the 51 companies Sadowski has sued through Higbee in 2 1/2 years:

https://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/higbee-letter-lawsuits-forum/is-higbee-stuck-at-the-bottom/

quote:

Sadowski v. Beasley Media Group, Inc. Filed: September 30, 2017 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Internet Solutions of Nevada Inc. et al Filed: September 19, 2017 Ninth Circuit › Nevada › Nevada District Court Mathew Higbee

Sadowski v. Claire Entertainment Inc. Filed: September 18, 2017 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. The New York Observer LLC Filed: August 24, 2017 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Rayminh L Ngo

Sadowski v. Bleacher Report, Inc. Filed: August 22, 2017 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Bravo Media LLC Filed: August 21, 2017 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Cox Media Group, LLC Filed: July 18, 2017 as Second Circuit › New York › New York Eastern District Court James H. Freeman

Sadowski v. Abbott Connection, Ltd. et al Filed: June 29, 2017 as Seventh Circuit › Illinois › Illinois Northern District Court Mathew Higbee

SADOWSKI v. IDRIVETHRU.COM, INC. Filed: June 28, 2017 as 3:2017cv04781 Third Circuit › New Jersey › New Jersey District Court MELISSA A. HIGBEE

SADOWSKI v. SPEEDNET GROUP LLC Filed: June 28, 2017 Third Circuit › New Jersey › New Jersey District Court MELISSA A. HIGBEE

Sadowski v. Richard Gottlieb & Associates, LLC Filed: June 28, 2017 as 1:2017cv04900 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Rayminh L Ngo

Sadowski v. Real Clear Holdings, LLC. Filed: May 31, 2017 Seventh Circuit › Illinois › Illinois Northern District Mathew Higbee

Sadowski v. NBCUniversal Media, LLC Filed: May 26, 2017 as 1:2017cv03994 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Bowling et al Filed: May 24, 2017 as 1:2017cv03954 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Rayminh L Ngo

Sadowski v. BackChina, LLC. Filed: May 22, 2017 Fifth Circuit › Texas › Texas Southern District Court Mathew Kidman Higbee

Sadowski v. JammedUp, LLC. Filed: May 12, 2017 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Rayminh L Ngo

Sadowski v. Hurricane Podcast Group, Inc. et al Filed: May 10, 2017 : Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Rayminh L Ngo

Sadowski v. Indo US Media, Inc. Filed: May 9, 2017 as Second Circuit › New York › New York Eastern District Court Rayminh Ngo

Sadowski v. Mommy Nearest, Inc. Filed: May 5, 2017 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Rayminh L Ngo

Sadowski v. Fashion Times LLC Filed: April 26, 2017 as 1:2017cv03061 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Kamanta Clintessia Kettle

Sadowski v. Maitland Filed: April 24, 2017 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Rayminh L Ngo

SADOWSKI v. FODA Filed: April 24, 2017 Third Circuit › New Jersey › New Jersey District Court MELISSA A. HIGBEE

Sadowski v. JVC Broadcasting Corp. Filed: April 13, 2017 a Second Circuit › New York › New York Eastern District Court Kamanta Clintessia Kettle

Sadowski v. Pakistan Muslim League USA, Inc. Filed: April 11, 2017 as 1:2017cv02202 Second Circuit › New York › New York Eastern District Court Rayminh Ngo

SADOWSKI v. CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY, INC. Filed: March 27, 2017 Third Circuit › New Jersey › New Jersey District Court MELISSA A. HIGBEE

SADOWSKI v. ZAMAN, LTD. Filed: March 13, 2017 as Third Circuit › New Jersey › New Jersey District MELISSA A. HIGBEE

SADOWSKI v. WORLD JOURNAL, LLC. Filed: March 9, 2017 as 2:2017cv01594 : Third Circuit › New Jersey › New Jersey District MELISSA A. HIGBEE

Sadowski v. Entravision Communications Corproation Filed: March 2, 2017 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. I Can Haz, LLC Filed: February 23, 2017 : Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Kamanta Clintessia Kettle

Sadowski v. FlexCo, LLC et al Filed: December 7, 2016 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Ben David Manevitz

Sadowski v. Cumulus Media Inc. Filed: November 25, 2016 as 1 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Penske Media Corporation Filed: November 25, 2016 as 1 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Viacom International Inc. Filed: October 24, 2016 as Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Entravision Communications Corporation Filed: October 6, 2016 as Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Yahoo! Inc. Filed: October 6, 2016 as Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Townsquare Media, Inc. Filed: August 11, 2016 as Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. A.S.R. Electrical Contracting, Inc. Filed: July 7, 2016 as Second Circuit › New York › New York Eastern District Court Rayminh Ngo

Sadowski v. Trusa NY Corp Filed: June 30, 2016 as Second Circuit › New York › New York Eastern District Rayminh Ngo

Sadowski v. Joseph A Romano, P.C. Filed: June 30, 2016 as Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Robert Michael Brill

Sadowski v. Weeks Filed: June 29, 2016 as 1:2 : Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Rayminh L Ngo

Sadowski v. Savitt Partners, LLC Filed: June 29, 2016 as Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Rayminh L Ngo

Sadowski v. Flatiron Communications, LLC et al Filed: June 28, 2016 as 1: : Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Rayminh L Ngo

Christopher v. New York Girl Style, LLC Filed: June 13, 2016 as Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Lifescript, Inc. Filed: June 6, 2016 as 1:2016cv04179 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Gawker Media LLC Filed: June 5, 2016 as 1:2016cv04178 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Complex Media, Inc. Filed: May 9, 2016 as 1:2016cv03453 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Iheartmedia, Inc. Filed: May 1, 2016 as 1:2016cv03238 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Mediatakeout.com LLC Filed: April 11, 2016 as 1:2016cv02701 : Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Complex Media, Inc. Filed: April 11, 2016 as 1:2016cv02700 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

Sadowski v. Paper Communications, Inc. Filed: April 11, 2016 as 1:2016cv02698 Second Circuit › New York › New York Southern District Court Richard Liebowitz

SADOWSKI v. SINOVISION INCORPORATED Filed: March 23, 2015 as Third Circuit › New Jersey › New Jersey District BEN DAVID MANEVITZ

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

I'm I Can Haz, LLC

WildeVinyl
Nov 24, 2003

"I have nothing to declare except my genius!"

Egbert Souse posted:

Tag yourself, here's the 51 companies Sadowski has sued through Higbee in 2 1/2 years:

https://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/higbee-letter-lawsuits-forum/is-higbee-stuck-at-the-bottom/

Not all of these are sued through Higbee. It looks like when the suit is filed in NYC Sadowski uses Richard Liebowitz, who Slate did a write up about in May: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/richard-liebowitz-why-media-companies-fear-and-photographers-love-this-guy.html

Best part:

quote:

The judges of New York’s Southern District—Liebowitz’s favorite venue by far—have been almost as censorious. In a June memorandum opinion granting ABC, Yahoo, NBC, and Coed Media Group the right to recover the attorneys’ fees they incurred while defending “this frivolous litigation” in what he deemed an obvious fair-use case, Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote that “There may well be justification for defendants’ implication that these were strike suits, designed to extort settlements from defendants on the basis that defense costs would exceed what plaintiff would accept in settlement.” (Kaplan later ordered the plaintiff to pay the defense $120,000 in legal fees.) In February and March, Judge Denise Cote labeled Liebowitz a “copyright troll,” imposed monetary sanctions, and ordered him to ethics classes.

WildeVinyl fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Sep 9, 2018

banned from Starbucks
Jul 18, 2004




oh right Cox, NBC and Viacom. surely they will rollover for us

Disco Godfather
May 31, 2011

Higbee has a new message for you scofflaws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFqGDaBVx_k

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


So theyre suing God, the Vatican, the U.S.government, the concept of avarice, and then some random man who is losing money over a dead gay forum.

:confuoot:

alnilam
Nov 10, 2009

WildeVinyl posted:

Not all of these are sued through Higbee. It looks like when the suit is filed in NYC Sadowski uses Richard Liebowitz, who Slate did a write up about in May: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/richard-liebowitz-why-media-companies-fear-and-photographers-love-this-guy.html

Best part:

lol even the court system thinks these guys are pieces of poo poo

GORILLA BASTARD
Jun 20, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Captain Yossarian posted:

Please work "suck my dick you fuckman" into your next email if possible

And then we will have come to the next possible conclusion.

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Disco Godfather posted:

Higbee has a new message for you scofflaws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFqGDaBVx_k

lol

Xenocides
Jan 14, 2008

This world looks very scary....


Disco Godfather posted:

Higbee has a new message for you scofflaws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFqGDaBVx_k

:golfclap:

Disco Godfather
May 31, 2011

King of Bees
Dec 28, 2012
Gravy Boat 2k

Never forget

Soup du Journey
Mar 20, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

:popeye: MORE neck surgery?!

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Slash DING!
Slash DING!
Slash DING!

"gently caress this, gently caress you buddy, gently caress the guy who gave you a cyberspine!"

IAmThatIs
Nov 17, 2014

Wasteland Style


Soup du Journey posted:

:popeye: MORE neck surgery?!

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

edit: wrong thread lol

lol but
Feb 24, 2007

body is a dinosaur
Slippery Tilde
was going to check the tax twitter because i am putting off doing something that's real important wrt my own quality of life. obviously i cannot because he is an unperson who's thoughts are incorrect. lowtax: post your forbidden tweets on the front page

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Soup du Journey posted:

:popeye: MORE neck surgery?!

Mill Town
Apr 17, 2006

Jawdins posted:

On the one hand, payday lenders can suck my balls. On the other, the bolded text is lmao

At least the suit was dismissed without prejudice, which means the people who got ripped off by the sleazy payday loans company can sue them again but with proper lawyers this time

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

banned from Starbucks posted:

oh right Cox, NBC and Viacom. surely they will rollover for us

My guess is that they probably thought they'd be all "gently caress it, cut them a check for 1000 bucks and send them a note to gently caress off".

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Ahahahaha

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer
UPDATE!!!!! Things have apparently ESCALATED to the dreaded "pre-litigation phase!" Oh no, I'm doomed now!!!

quote:

FROM: Shauntece Laurant

Mr. Kyanka,

My name is Shauntece Laurant, I work in pre-litigaiton here at the Law Firm of Higbee & Associates to help resolve copyright claims without them having to go to court. I have been given two weeks or so to determine whether or not this claim requires further action.

While you claim to not be responsible for the claim, you have failed to properly remove our client’s image from your site. We are now considering this willful infringement.

Also, as you may or may not know, ignorance is not an excuse to infringement, particularly when it’s your job to hire someone or otherwise supervise the infringer. If you hire a website builder who copies and displays a photo on your website without the permission, you are “vicariously" liable for the infringement.

Consequently, I would be careful with leading us to litigate this case as it would appear that the merits are different and could lead to this claim being filed in court. It would behoove you to work with us and avoid any possibility of further action.


Best

Shauntece Laurant
Claims Resolution Specialist
Copyright Division

Law Firm of Higbee & Associates (http://www.higbeeassociates.com)
1504 Brookhollow Dr., Suite 112, Santa Ana, CA 92705
Direct: (714) 617-8340
Phone: (800) 716-1245 Fax: (714) 597-6559
Since I'm in a good mood, I decided to respond in a polite and helpful way. I love everybody in this life!

quote:

Hello Shauntece! It has come to my attention that you, and apparently every single other person employed at your scumbag "law" firm, fail to understand how the internet works on even the most basic, fundamental level. However, you clearly know how money works, as you seem hellbent on obtaining it through any means necessary, including (but not limited to) threatening people with lawsuits in the hope they are not familiar with the legal system.

Since I am a kind and generous soul, I will help you understand one aspect of the internet: image hotlinking. That term is used when somebody embeds an image on a website, which is not hosted on that website, and is instead located on a completely different server. In this case, the image of a man dressed like Hitler, which you are very concerned about protecting for whatever idiotic reason, is located on one of the many servers imgur owns and operates. Imgur is a website that allows users to host images on their storage. Users may then link to the image on their server, causing it to appear wherever they paste the specific image embed code; in this case, the Something Awful dot com forums.

Now if you want to protect your precious Hitler image, the correct and legal course of action is to pursue a copyright claim against the service hosting this image, which again is imgur. The absolute most idiotic and wrong course of action is to threaten me with your bullshit "infringement" claims, which honestly makes you look like an utter loving moron who should be out digging ditches in the ground, and then burying themselves in one of the aforementioned ditches. You and Christopher Sadowski can gently caress off into the sunset, hopefully in the goal of falling off this beautiful flat Earth of ours.

Let me make this absolutely clear: I have zero intention of working with you. I have zero intention of ever working with you, unless it's in a situation requiring me to push you into a tar pit. Take me to court, knock yourselves out, go get in line behind the medical industry that I already owe roughly $80,000 to. I'm sure it will be a fun and adventurous thrillride full of exciting stories able to thrill generations of children to come.

If you have any other questions about the internet, please feel free to ask somebody else, because I hate you and every single other miserable shell of a human being employed by your firm. Also your first name is dumb as gently caress.

- Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka
CEO of Internet
Wish me luck in the upcoming pre-post-pre-pre-palm-pre-litigation process, or whoever the hell she escalates HITLER DOT JPEG GATE to.

Over There
Jun 28, 2013

by Azathoth

How much you wanna bet that's a copy-paste from an intern.

e: excuse me I missed the fake rear end title Claims Resolution Specialist

Over There fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Sep 10, 2018

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


WHAT HAVE YOU DONe RICHARD YOUVE RUINED US!

lol but
Feb 24, 2007

body is a dinosaur
Slippery Tilde
have you considered throwing the case and going bankrupt? like, zero money is better than negative money... right? please do not misinterpret this as financial advice or even a fully coherent thought

phasmid
Jan 16, 2015

Booty Shaker
SILENT MAJORITY
Oh my god. These guys are tenacious in their stupidity.

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

By popular demand posted:

WHAT HAVE YOU DONe RICHARD YOUVE RUINED US!
HITLER CONTINUES HIS REIGN OF TERROR FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE

Over There
Jun 28, 2013

by Azathoth
lmao their google reviews are all people calling them out for being scam artists.

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

phasmid posted:

Oh my god. These guys are tenacious in their stupidity.
They're just hoping that if they sound scarier that I'll suddenly be like "oh poo poo, maybe they are right and I'm legally responsible for a Hitler photo hosted on imgur, quick, let me bust out the checkbook before crap gets worse!!!" Unfortunately for them, I do not plan on responding in such a way.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

quote:

Also, as you may or may not know, ignorance is not an excuse to infringement, particularly when it’s your job to hire someone or otherwise supervise the infringer.

Wait you are supposed to be hiring or supervising all the posters on SA? All I want to know is how much will I get.

What retards.

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

Over There posted:

lmao their google reviews are all people calling them out for being scam artists.
They literally and absolutely 100% are, and I'm enjoying wasting their time and money replying to their shakedown threats.

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

Burt Sexual posted:

Wait you are supposed to be hiring or supervising all the posters on SA? All I want to know is how much will I get.

What retards.
BUT WHO WILL SUPERVISE THE IMAGES OF THE IMAGE SUPERVISOR?!?

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

Burt Sexual posted:

Wait you are supposed to be hiring or supervising all the posters on SA? All I want to know is how much will I get.

What retards.

Hire someone at SA to make sure hosted images from imgur aren't copyrighted? Is that what they're saying. :confused:

HugeGrossBurrito
Mar 20, 2018
This hitler guy and his cronies seem like real jerks.

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

This hitler guy and his cronies seem like real jerks.

Hitlerbee and Associates

HugeGrossBurrito
Mar 20, 2018

Lowtax posted:

Hitlerbee and Associates

Making fun of their name is illegal please give me 1000 dollars this is a laywer

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
Holy poo poo look at these people that have purportedly paid them.

https://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/higbee-associates-sued-for-copyright-case-when-i-was-willing-to-settle-mean-wasteful-c797630.html

I wonder..... if its Higby actually posting that they paid up under the threat of lawsuit.

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Papa Emeritus III
Jul 7, 2017

[A MESSAGE FROM THE CLERGY]

Dat's Pussy Trap, bitch!

Deal with it.

quote:

It would behoove you to work with us and avoid any possibility of further action.
So, if you dont take down the nazi image they will chop off your hooves?

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