ANNOUNCER: From Westminster, it’s time for—
SOUND: Skype rings once.
JOHNNY: Johnny Atsign.
RULE 5 GIRL: (Telephone Filter) Hello, Johnny.
JOHNNY: Well, hello.
RULE 5 GIRL: (Telephone Filter) Have you seen what The Grouch is tweeting this morning.
JOHNNY: No, I haven’t bothered to check his feed yet today.
RULE 5 GIRL: (Telephone Filter) He’s saying that he had permission to use all of those blog posts he copied. He’s going on about some sort of blanket permission.
JOHNNY: Nah, he never had permission.
RULE 5 GIRL: (Telephone Filter) He seems to think so.
JOHNNY: He didn’t do a good job of reading the fine print.
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ANNOUNCER: The Lickspittle Broadcasting System presents W. J. J. Hoge in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed Twitter account, America’s fabulous free-lance Internet investigator …
JOHNNY: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign!
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JOHNNY: The following is partial extract of the tweets sent and received during my investigation of Missing Link Matter.
THE GROUCH TWEETS: (SYNTH VOICE) So how can he sue me if he’s given me blanket permission to copy his posts?
JOHNNY: It can be quite intriguing how different investigations can wind up intersecting. For past few months, I’d been looking into some copyright infringement issues. It turns out that an moderately infamous cyberthug known as The Grouch has been taking screen caps of entire blog posts and incorporating them into his own work. Other bloggers had be shrugging it off … until one day, when he published several bloggers’ work in an ebook that he offered for sale.
That was a camel-back-breaking-straw. I was hired by one of the bloggers to locate all instances of The Grouch’s use of that blogger’s material.
BLOGGER: He’s been doing this for years. He has no respect for anyone’s copyrights. Except his own, of course. He’s tried and failed to raise money for a copyright suit in the past.
JOHNNY: Are you sure you want to bother with this. He’ll claim Fair Use.
BLOGGER: Let him. Fair Use is an affirmative defense. Raising it is an admission of infringement.
JOHNNY: Uh, huh. But what about your Terms of Service. You pretty much give your stuff away.
BLOGGER: With proper credit and a link by to my blog. I’m told you’ve been backing up The Grouch’s websites and tweets and that you’ve got the html code of stuff he’s pulled down. (Fading out) I wonder if you can search for those instances where he’s ripped me off without that link …
JOHNNY: In fact, I had been backing up The Grouch’s sites and Twitter accounts as part of another investigation, the Short Fuzed Dud Matter, an investigation of an anti-First-Amendment activist called The Bomber. The Grouch has been serving as his PR Flack.
I was able to find over a hundred instances of use of entire posts by the Blogger in The Grouch’s online publications that had a missing link. And an ebook. And a hard copy book.
The Blogger sued.
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THE GROUCH TWEETS: (SYNTH VOICE) I’m no longer associated with The Bomber. Haven’t talked to him for months.
JOHNNY: I had stopped by the Federal Courthouse in Baltimore to drop off some documents for the Blogger to use as evidence in a hearing. We were standing in the hallway on the 4th floor waiting for the courtroom to be opened. There’s an impressive view of the lawn and sculpture garden outside the courthouse from up there.
BLOGGER: Thanks, Johnny.
JOHNNY: You’ll need a lot more than this if the case goes past preliminary hearings.
BLOGGER: I know, but there’s time to … hold it. Is that who I think it is down there?
JOHNNY: Where?
BLOGGER: Do you see The Grouch?
JOHNNY: The guy using a walker? Yeah.
BLOGGER: Look at the man walking about 30 or 40 feet ahead of him.
JOHNNY: The Bomber.
BLOGGER: Curiouser and curiouser.
JOHNNY TWEETS: (SYNTH VOICE) @BobBailey One link may be missing, but another may turn up.
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JOHNNY: Next week? It’s another example of Hunter S. Thompson’s saying that when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Join us, won’t you?
Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign!
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HOOOOOOOGE!
Yea, with the level of self-pity at dangerous levels in Elkridge today, Bill’s head may pop.
https://twitter.com/wmsbroadcasting/status/483745873310937088
Hmm. Like this?
https://twitter.com/wmsbroadcasting/status/483204976143896576
“Mocking a person you are suing is not a good idea.”
Like this?
https://twitter.com/wmsbroadcasting/status/482673104494546944
He sure likes bottoms. With mayo?
So, it’s not good to mock a person you’re suing?
https://twitter.com/wmsbroadcasting/status/482327574647816192
https://twitter.com/wmsbroadcasting/status/483745225999802369
One hour ago:
Lemme just throw this out there and see what I net. What do I have to do to get the Hogeists to forget I exist and leave me alone?
Uh, which Bill are we talking to right now….
Fatboi can’t see it…he’s as sharp as a donut hole.
https://twitter.com/wmsbroadcasting/status/483748020802949121
As opposed to Atty. Schmalfeldt, who has to go to online legal websites and ask for help.
Nine minutes before that tweet: “Mocking a person you are suing is not a good idea.”
And, even then, the only way he can get “legal” answers he wants to hear is to lie by omission.
https://twitter.com/wmsbroadcasting/status/483745603050946561
Can we have some examples of “libel”?
Examples of libel:
1. WJJH and AW suborned perjury.
2. WJJH lied to the judge.
3. The Natuonal Blogger’s Club is a scam and no one ever applied for tax exemption.
4. A Dallas photographer prostituted his wife.
This straddles the libel-mockery line, I think. A twofer.
https://twitter.com/wmsbroadcasting/status/482476368215547904
I have never, not once, seen Mr. Hoge lie. He has made a couple mistakes, and always acknowledged and corrected promptly.
CBBS?
Not so much.
He’s terrified. He knows he’s got nothing. Victim status (again) or flat out begging Hoge to drop it (again and again and again) is not far behind.
Indeed. You tried warning him.
I’m going to miss the tub of goo when he’s gone.
Bill just got much bigger problems than people insulting him:
http://runwolf.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/the-answers-of-bill-schmalfeldt/
Yes, the FBI.
I shouldn’t have been eating when I read that.
Oh, my! LOL!
The Cabin Boy continues to find bigger and bigger shovels.
It’s not just Maryland, there is several states involved(if you’ve sat back and watch the last month you get this) Let’s just several failed doxes have been contacted. No , I will not comment further on an ongoing criminal investigation.
I don’t know whether to face-palm or laugh helplessly.
Both?
He is. It’s called a counterclaim, and he has amended it once.
https://twitter.com/wmsbroadcasting/status/483759520880275456
Interesting how the real agenda reveals itself. Writing ABOUT BS? He’ll report you to law enforcement for…apparently, for “b.s.” Shades of Roger Shuler.
https://twitter.com/wmsbroadcasting/status/483764378550824960
https://twitter.com/wmsbroadcasting/status/483764598399455232
It seems to me that Mr. Malone is merely investigating, like any good investigative journalist. He is not endlessly emailing and tweeting the subject of his inquiry.
Mike set Bill up masterfully.
Now he is schooling him on what “investigative journalism” looks like.
All Bill can do is another iteration of “This will end NOW”.
BS, in the comment section: “My life is none of your business. Your “questions” are none of your business. Go haunt another house. Leave me alone.” I believe that he is an adjudicated harasser in two states. He may be trying for a third.
Owned like Kunte.
I don’t want anything. It’s just as much fun when Bill doesn’t play. If only Bill had figured that out way back with the Wisconsin folks, maybe he wouldn’t have gotten the reputation of harassment that he has.
Michael , for the record? We weren’t first ones. There has been people before even us CBBS was harassing. Howard has explained that to Bill also a few weeks back also on Paul’s blog. We never wanted anything from him. We just laughed at Bill for being an idiot. I bet he wishes it was just us now. Look up a guy by the name of William/Bill Looman . He’s on Facebook. Talk to him. Get his story also, and he’s dealings with CBBS. I believe there was a few others even before that one also.
But he won’t leave the comments section, ever.