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Re: So how is the Voltage Pictures / Tek Savvy copyright lawsuit progressing?

#679
From: Tony
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:58
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Eddie Shack, known by nicknames "The Entertainer" and "The Nose", a retired
Canadian hockey player who played for six NHL teams from 1959 to 1975...I
know, I�m dating myself but, a positive influence anywhere, he has a saying:
�look after the nickels and dimes, and the dollars will look after themselves.

Wilbur Eleven wrote:

> In article <510eae62$0$63316$c3e8da3$3a1a2348@news.astraweb.com>,
>  JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> > Incorrect. You start to seed the minute you have one verified part and
> > anyone else in interested in that part.  So you could have only 1% of a
> > file and be seeding to 20 people.  (this happens especially when a
> > torrent has just been posted).
> >
> The modified version of the client I use can _pretend_ that you're
> uploading when you're not. For the record, you're not "seeding" when
> you're uploading parts of an incomplete download; that's called
> "peering," or, to the zealots, "leeching."
>
> > And more importantly, you could have any x % of file, be seen in the
> > torrent and not be downloading anything. Beware of folks who stay at 37%
> > for any length of time.
>
> That too is a controllable setting. These guys, they're fighting a
> losing war, even if they create casualties (TSI customers, say) along
> the way.
>
> --
>
> Fine then, I'm drinking coffee and rolling cigarettes and looking
> out at the hot baked street and a lady just walked by wiggling it
> in tight white pants, and we are not dead yet.

--
The Grandmaster of the CyberFROG

Come get your ticket to CyberFROG city

Nay, Art thou decideth playeth ye simpleton games. *Some* of us know proper
manners

Very few. I used to take calls from *rank* noobs but got fired the first day
on the job for potty mouth,

Bur-ring, i'll get this one: WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM JERK!!? We're here to help
you dickweed, ok, ok give the power cord the jiggily piggily wiggily all the
while pushing the power button repeatedly now take everything out of your
computer except the power supply and *one* stick of ram. Subscriber asks will
that fuckin' work? I guaranDAMtee it. Ok get the next sucker on the phone.

Deirdre Straughan (Roxio) is a LIAR (Deirdre McFibber)

There's the employer and the employee and the FROGGER and the FROGEE, which
one are you?

Hamster isn't a newsreader it's a mistake!

El-Gonzo Jackson FROGS both me and Chuckcar (I just got EL-FROG-OED!!)

All hail Chuckcar the CZAR!! Or in F-R-O-Gland Chuckcar laFROG laCZAR,
ChuckZar!!

I hate them both, With useless bogus bullshit you need at least *three*
fulltime jobs to afford either one of them

I'm a fulltime text *only* man on usenet now. The rest of the world downloads
the binary files not me i can't afford thousands of dollars a month

VBB = Volume based billing. How many bytes can we shove down your throat and
out your arse sir?

The only "fix" for the CellPig modem is a sledgehammer.

UBB = User based bullFROGGING

Colonel Debeers refuses to wrestle a black man
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3-o_dPhbGI)

Master Juba was a black man imitating a white man imitating a black man

Always do incremental backups of your data or you'll end up like the A-Holes
at DSL Reports. Justin says i made a boo-boo. Yeah boo-who.

Updates are for idiots. As long as the thing works there's no reason to turn
schizophrenic and develop a lifelong complex over such a silly issue.

You don't have to be "stinkbottomed" to post on this newsgroup

Adrian "jackpot" Lewis is a mama's boy!

Jimmy Fricke is good for the game of poker

Using my technical prowess and computer abilities to answer questions beyond
the realm of understandability

Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday

This sig file was compiled via my journeys through usenet
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From: Tony <Tony@TheDeli.Sandwich>
Newsgroups: can.internet.highspeed
Subject: Re: So how is the Voltage Pictures / Tek Savvy copyright lawsuit 
 progressing?
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:58:18 -0500
Organization: Sultans Of CyberFROG
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