Ayyadurai v. Floor64, Inc. et al

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COMPLAINT against All Defendants Filing fee: $ 400, receipt number 0101-6439091 (Fee Status: Filing Fee paid), filed by Shiva Ayyadurai. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Exhibit, # 3 Exhibit, # 4 Exhibit, # 5 Exhibit, # 6 Exhibit, # 7 Exhibit, # 8 Exhibit, # 9 Exhibit, # 10 Exhibit, # 11 Exhibit, # 12 Exhibit, # 13 Exhibit, # 14 Exhibit, # 15 Exhibit, # 16 Exhibit, # 17 Exhibit, # 18 Exhibit, # 19 Exhibit, # 20 Exhibit, # 21 Exhibit)(Cornell, Timothy)

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Just a little Email by Mike Mas nick Wed, Nov 2nd 2016 10:42am while ago, Nick Denton posted that the remaining three cases filed by lawyer Charles Harder Si si fpsl against Gawker, Denton and some reporters had been settled, with the agreement to remove 'Mandolin | Oranges the stories, Harder, of course, is the lawyer that Peter Thiel set up with his own practice, with the stated mission of filing lawsuits that would kill Gawker, Thiel/Harder "won" back when this effort Filed Under: censorship, Charles harder, defamation, email, hulk hogan, inventor of email, nick denton, peter worse, insist that this proves that the case was legitimate -- despite the fact it never was). But J forced Gawker into bankruptcy and then a fire sale to Llnivision, But now the remaining stories thiel, shiva ayyadurai Companies: gawker have beer officially killed off. This includes the famous Hulk Hogan story and case -- meaning that the appeal, which basically every lawyer admits would have resulted in overturning the lower 1? *1.29 WITH CARD court's jury verdict, is dead, I know the Gawker haters will cheer this outright censorship (or, ST Dole Mandarin Oranges w let's focus or ore of the other stories that is getting censored here thanks to Peter Thiel's actions. It's the one that we wrote about the most: Shiva Ayyaudrai claims to have invented email when j&tphs) BifBW Vaki until Dec. 13 he was a kid. He did not. I wont go through all the details again, but as a kid in 1978, Ayyadurai Permalirik. Short link. a. •5 did apparently create [independently) a software program for electronic mail for a college he worked for. By all accounts, it was a good program that was useful. He named it EMAIL and Report this ad \ Hide Techdirt ads Essential Reading eventually registered a copyright for that piece of software. That's it. It's a neat accomplishment for a kid. But it is not "inventing email" by any stretch of the imagination. That's because (1) every single thing that Ayyadurai did had already been done elsewhere, often Hot Topics 5.5 The FCC Suggests Some Wishy Washy, many years earlier, and (2) all of that other work was done in public settings via RFCs and the Highly Unlikely Solutions To The process that eventually led to the email systems that we use today, Ayyadurai's email system,,, Poorly-Secured Internet Of Things contributed to nothing, It was late to the game and it never went any further, Again, it was 5.2 1 Judge Tosses Charges Against impressive that as a kid he basically independently created an electronic mailing system, but that's Backpage Execs, Tells Kamala Harris different from "inventing email," But, for whatever reason, Ayyadurai has staked his entire identity To Take It Up With Congress on the outright false claim that he invented email. He's written a book about it. He has a whole webpage about it. And he keeps pushing the story on the press, including teaming up with a 5.2 Georgia Secretary Of State Accuses DHS Of Breaching his Office's Firewall famous PR guy and (???) Noam Chomsky to argue that there was a giant conspiracy to deny him his rightful designation as the inventor of email, He often claims this is because he's of Indian descent, ignoring that one of the actual inventors of email, on RFC 561 is Abhay Bhushan (who New To Techdirt? also created FTP) and is, also, of Indian descent, Explore some core concepts: An Economic Explanation For Why DRM Ayyadurai is so obsessed with his false claim of creating email, that he even went or a petulant Cannot Open Up New Business Model Twitter rampage after one of the octucr? creators of email, Ray Tomlinson, passed away earlier Opportunities this year, yelling at any journalist who accurately credited Tomlinson's work on email. Saying You Can't Compete With Free Is Along with us, one of the other publications that highlighted Ayyadurai's bullshit claims was, ,, Saying You Can't Compete Period Gawker, And, then, in May Ayyadurai sued Gawker using Charles Harder as his lawyer, over two Step One To Embracing A Lack Of Scarcity: Gawker aitides on Ayyadurai , Those articles were completely accurate, Ayyadurai did not invent Recognize What Market You're Really In email. He wants the world to believe he did, despite mountains of evidence that says he's wrong. read all » Gawker's reporting was entirely accurate. This is not about "sex tapes" or "privacy" or any of the stuff people want to talk about with the Hulk Hogan story This was exposing someone who was blatantly misrepresenting history for his own personal aggrandizing, And now it's gone, because continuing to fight the lawsuit was too much. As Denton notes: But all-out legal war with Thiel would have cost too much, ctnrf hurt" too many people, and there wets no end in sight. Denton notes that, especially given the reporters who were directly sued in these cases, it was best to just move on to "focus on activities more productive than endless litigation. Life is short, for most of us." 18 Document title: Ridiculous: Nick Denton Settles Remaining Charles Harder Lawsuits, Agrees To Delete Perfectly True Stories || Techdirt Document title: Ridiculous: Nick Denton Settles Remaining Charles Harder Lawsuits, Agrees To Delete Perfectly True Stories Techdirt Capture URL: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161102/10054035947/ridiculous-nick-denton-settles-remaining-charles-harder-lawsuits-agrees-to-delete-perfectly-true-… Capture URL: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161102/10054035947/ridiculous-nick-denton-settles-remaining-charles-harder-lawsuits-agrees-to-delete-perfectly-true-_ Capture timestamp (UTC): Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:00:11 GMT Capture timestamp (UTC): Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:00:11 GMT Page 1 of 8 And row it's gone, because continuing to fight the lawsuit was too much. As Denton notes: But all-out legal war with Thief would have cost too much, and hurt too many people, and there was no end in sight. W, Denton notes that, especially given the reporters who were directly sued in these cases, it was best 03 to just move on to "focus on activities more productive than endless litigation. Life is short, for most of us." That's true, but it's also bullshit. Ayyadurai has been given the heckler's veto and will likely crow about how this vindicates him. He's tried to twist a variety of other things as "proof' that he's the 2 SERVICE BUNDLE BUY NOW inventor of email. As of writing this he hasn't said anything on his Twitter feed, other than to retweet someone saying "congratulations to [Shiva], inventor of email" and someone else tweeting VPN Unlimited & To Do about the Denton story, Of course, perhaps because he's too busy promoting some sketchy "health" system and conspiracy theories about the election -- oh, and also having conversations with Checklist: Lifetime confirmed asshole and colleague in bullshit, censorious lawsuits, actor James Woods. Subscription Bundle V.A. 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