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Submission + - Aereo required to testify about non-public patent info

Submitted by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Monday October 07, 2013 @02:39PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: In ABC v Aereo, a copyright infringement action against Aereo, the Magistrate Judge has overruled Aereo's attorney/client privilege objection to being forced to divulge non-public details about its patented technology. In his 15 page decision (PDF) he ordered the continued deposition of the company's CTO and CEO about their patent applications. My gut reaction is that this sets a very dangerous precedent, giving the big copyright plaintiffs yet another 'in terrorem' device to use against technology startups — the power to use the lawsuit as a chance to delve into a defendant's non-public tech secrets.

Comment Re:Ableson = a good example of what not to be. (Score 2) 362

by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Saturday October 05, 2013 @09:45PM (#45048343) Attached to: 'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself'

What a horrible example of how not to behave as a decent human being.

Agreed. Abelson should be ashamed of himself.

Comment So MIT gets to exonerate itself & blame the vi (Score 2) 362

by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Saturday October 05, 2013 @09:42PM (#45048325) Attached to: 'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself'

Can someone tell me why it's newsworthy that MIT clowns exonerate themselves & blame their victim?

Other than to demonstrate how low some people can go.

Comment Re:Oh yea, it's fantastic (Score 1) 1191

by XanC on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @04:35PM (#45007111) Attached to: Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta)

Greek psi:

Comment Re:Oh yea, it's fantastic (Score 1) 1191

by XanC on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @04:34PM (#45007101) Attached to: Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta)

Résumé

Comment Re:Most tenuous link ever? (Score 1) 452

by XanC on Thursday September 26, 2013 @12:57PM (#44961661) Attached to: Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly

The thing's gotta have a tailpipe.

Comment Don't understand (Score 2) 452

by XanC on Thursday September 26, 2013 @12:45PM (#44961485) Attached to: Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly

What is with the vitriol here? Why should buyers and sellers not be able to come together to make a transaction at any time that they like?

Comment Re:Backstory? (Score 1) 51

by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @02:17PM (#44950875) Attached to: Vimeo Held Covered By DMCA Safe Harbor

You're one of my 3 favorite lawyers, the other two being the lady who handled my divorce and the man who handled my bankruptcy.

Great that you found good people to handle those important things.

Comment Re:Backstory? (Score 1) 51

by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @06:52PM (#44942463) Attached to: Vimeo Held Covered By DMCA Safe Harbor

Maybe to you 4channers it is, troll, but NYCL is well known and greatly respected here at slashdot. So go back to reddit and leave us grownups alone.

Thanks, bro :)

Comment Re:Backstory? (Score 0) 51

by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Monday September 23, 2013 @07:47PM (#44929567) Attached to: Vimeo Held Covered By DMCA Safe Harbor

Hey buddy, you watch your mouth when you're talking about NYCL!

All riggghhhhtttt. Thanks Amicus :) I always wanted to have a big brother :)

Comment Re:"standards-based web platform" (Score 4, Insightful) 170

by XanC on Monday September 23, 2013 @07:10PM (#44929311) Attached to: Google Dropping Netscape Plugin API Support In Chrome/Blink

That may be, but why don't we "evolve" this other thing to cover all the existing use cases BEFORE disabling NPAPI?

Comment Re:Backstory? (Score 0) 51

by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Monday September 23, 2013 @05:55PM (#44928627) Attached to: Vimeo Held Covered By DMCA Safe Harbor

No... I think people want something in between 70 words and 56 pages.

Oh. OK. How many words do they want?

Comment Re:Backstory? (Score 4, Informative) 51

by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Monday September 23, 2013 @05:51PM (#44928589) Attached to: Vimeo Held Covered By DMCA Safe Harbor

It does seem insane. I mean how can the court not see that this case is clearly about killing vimeo and by extension video sharing sites. How can they expect all employees to be 100% diligent. It's never going to happen. If the only option to adhere to Safe Harbor is to have google class content filter Youtube is going to be the only game in town in the US.

The legal fees alone are the killer. Veoh won every round, but had to go out of business due to the legal fees.

Comment Re:Backstory? (Score 4, Insightful) 51

by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Monday September 23, 2013 @05:48PM (#44928529) Attached to: Vimeo Held Covered By DMCA Safe Harbor

Maybe it's not about killing Vimeo, but rather making it "play nice" the way YouTube has: Pay for sync licensing of the music and support the licensing costs with ads.

In my experience, their primary goal in every instance is to put people out of business, if at all possible. YouTube has been 'playing nice' with them for many years, but they haven't dropped the pending case.

Comment Re:Backstory? (Score 1, Informative) 51

by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Monday September 23, 2013 @05:45PM (#44928487) Attached to: Vimeo Held Covered By DMCA Safe Harbor

The blog post linked from TFS is a brief (~70 word) summary of the recent development with no links to other posts on your blog for the background on the story, only the big PDF of the decision.

The decision, IMHO, gives you what you need to know about the facts of the case in order to understand the significance of the decision. 56 pages is enough reading in my view, for our purposes. If you want more you can go on PACER and get hundreds of additional pages from the case file.

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