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Based on corroborating evidence from people I know who have interacted with Lightbank, I would say yes.

They are the Groupon mafia, which should set some alarm bells off to begin with given Groupon's shady behavior toward investors (fudging numbers, cashing out most of their billion dollar round to shareholders, etc). I've heard stories self-indulgent term negotiation, deceptive terms, and dragging their feet before scuttling deals.

So in other words, dirty tricks sound right up their alley.

YMMV...
If you had a bit free, you could track which objects escape to C. But it's probably not worth going that way. Well, maybe. Programs that generate tons of strings may only occasionally escape them, so maybe moving them as part of the C call would be a good idea.
Obviously. Let's say Trademarks trolls,
I simply used their own term.
"Are you implying that we shouldn't react disproportionately?"

I would say that even when you factor in malicious intent we still react disproportionally, and that this is an inherent problem.

Any individual involved in any security-related field will have to work with the concept of acceptable risk at some point. The damage that terrorists can cause us is not that high compared to the way we victimize ourselves to try to prevent very modest harm.

Our reaction has become comparable to a cytokine storm in reaction to a flu virus, really. That can't be good.

Edit: As a side note, our reaction is such that it allows for what I call "grey-terrorism" vulnerabilities. If we define terrorism to only include acts which are violent or directly dangerous to human life, then leaving cardboard boxes marked "do not touch" in airport restrooms around the nation is not "terrorism." The act is not dangerous to human life. The act is not violent. The act however may be very disruptive to our airports, and it may be very good at inspiring terror.
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This is beautifully done and rather well integrated. But it needs a few things to be better; I need to be able to see the codec, instantly. If I'm stuck with a DVD rip, there's a huge difference between 600MB DivX and 600MB H264.

As for discussions, unless you have some new way to find movies (which would be really cool), it's more important to see the quality of the files we're downloading. Even allowing user ratings of the specific torrents would help.
As has already been discussed ad nauseum, Apple is not bein irritating to get a "30% cut" (which is a bothersome way of describing it as they don't den get 30%: they get what is left over after paying you your 70% cut and then handling their numerous fixed costs with relation to selling your products): they want control over distribution. For more information, read this entire thread.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4037065

As for how you do it, in practice 99% of licensing schemes are based either on "serial number", "mac address", "license key given to user and typed into app", or a combination of such. While some people then can't import still, almost everyone can, and that is enough to be game-changing.

Note: you don't even need to allow this list to e changed after you import the product if you are still concerned about a "30% cut". (Though, Cydia does allow this, and even fully automates it by way of a backend licensing API vendors can implement to take control of the purchasing process, and in practice vendors that start using this mostly use it as a temporary measure and eventually just switch over entirely).
Congrats, Chris. Can't wait for the feedback rounds.
Besides starting with the same keyword, Hear and Near have the same visual shape and sound almost identical. I think it's very similar, in my opinion, certainly enough to confuse a potential user. If you don't defend your trademark, you lose it.
Have you tried Ruboto (http://ruboto.org/) ?
You can use TimeMachine to automatically back up everything. Or a more customized solution using Carbon Copy Cloner.
There's a new religion in these holy wars. And it's Google.
In general, if you have a trademark and do not defend it, your lack of defending can be used against you later.
Where do you put the brains on though? In the IDE/programmer or in the language?
In comparison, isolation tanks are extremely noisy.

You got to try an anechoic chamber to believe it. BTW: many universities have one. The one I worked at (BYU, long ago) has this one:

http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/acoustics/facilities.asp...

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It's a very good facility. Interestingly, I believe the main anechoic chamber used to be an echo chamber!
To answer your points in order:

1. Iran's sabre rattling is in response to the outright threats of invasion and/or military strikes by the US/Israel.

2. Iran has oil which is more economically valuable sold on the market and not burned in local power plants, arguing they have no right to nuclear power is silly.

3. Iran enriches up to 20% for use in medical research reactor that produces isotopes for cancer treatment, the entire process is monitored by the IAEA.

4. "All of the available evidence points towards their going for a nuclear weapon"
Which rock have you emerged from and more importantly, was it comfortable there? The CIA itself not to mention some very high ranking retired or otherwise members of Israel's intelligence/military have clearly stated that they don't believe Iran has nukes or is working towards them, for e.g. see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17879744
and
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0425/Israel...

5. They do "play ball" with the international community, they don't play ball with the US which has been threatening them for quite a while now even though it's own intelligence agency has said Iran is not pursuing a nuke.
Unless of course "International Community" in your lexicon equals the US.

oh and just a piece of advice; you shouldn't jump in if you're going to parrot unsupported claims
But if you offer a link to any Watch Instantly-available film in the same frame as the torrent links, I think that would be great. Same with Amazon's and YouTube's streaming movie offerings.
It is normal here in Canada for a husband to accompany his wife to the hospital, and has been at least since I was born in the 80s. I think refurb's point is that it's strange to include that in something you give a Canadian moving to the US.
Cool. Glad to see Crittercism using PLCrashReporter. Good stuff.
This definitely provides more insight, but this seems really childish and juvenile for two professionally competing products. Dropping the legal documents just seem like a huge dick move to me, especially on the smaller guy who does not have the resources fight back. It would have been nice for WhosHere to just play it out and continuing building a better product (especially if you have confidence in your product). If you want product segregation, then you should have chosen a less generic name. WhosHere ended up, at least, having Brian change his product name, and they are being sore losers for not getting what they expected.
I think he allows a reasonable experience prior to having to log in. I watched his overview video (nice job), played the first level, and started designing a level without having to log in. Requiring account creation to save a level seems fine to me.

Overall, nice job, ttbmike.
If we are going down THAT road, it's "IP Trolls" then.
if you hear more about this, let me know: I'm as curious as you.
True! It can't be arbitrary.
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I too am a lawyer and while I agree that disclaimers have legal effect, I disagree that including a disclaimer necessarily relieves one of liability. In my jurisdiction, what is more critical is whether the recipient of the information believes it to be legal advice and whether the giver of information should realize the recipient may so believe.
These emails are so strange. The tone taken by both parties is just so...unbelievable.

For example, Brian's opening salvo "Neither of these options are remotely acceptable to me. It is also offensive to me that you would think my time was only
worth $100/hr, considering I turn down requests offering 4 times that rate regularly."

Seriously, "regularly" turning down offers for work at a rate of over $400/hr?

And also, "I was born wealthy; I have an obscene trust fund. I assure you
that if required, I will obtain the best legal representation for corporate litigation in the Silicon Valley."

When I read the original blog post, it really tugs on the heart strings and makes Brian seem the underdog.

Now after reading these emails, he comes across as a complete jackass.
Someone should tell WhosHere that their pdf redaction is terribly ineffective...
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Something is missing here. Did Brian Hamacheck rename his app or not. One of the letters Brian says he will change it, but Who's Near Me is all over his website. Is this a case of he said he would do something then lied about it and is now surprised he's being sued?

And I don't understand how they are stealing his work. They just asked for a name change. Then they offered to buy him out and share revenue.

Why wouldn't he just change the name?

Am I missing something?
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Why not youtube? Against their terms?
At the moment, no. However, several trackers are working on replacements.
That's true. But you don't have to send an extremely nasty letter with the two conditions, "give us all your assets and consult for us" or "be sued for $100,000". That's where my anger comes from. They could have said, "We think your name is similar to ours, and to ensure that we can defend our name in court in the future, we need you to license it from us for $1." But instead, they chose to be shit bags.

(I could be wrong about the details, since the court docs are not loading for me. I will edit the "parts in quotes" about the two options if I am way off base.)
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Just like he's just getting around to planning his re-election campaign "now".

If the President of the United States wants to be impressive -- and I don't know that APIs are where one would start -- he can do better than make announcements.
There is also another area where improvement can be had. As far as I know most A/B testing just looks at the decisions that led to a conversion. But what about those that didn't lead to a conversion? There is information in that too, and it depends on time.

Suppose you pulled decision X for some user two minutes ago, and the user hasn't converted yet. Suppose that you pulled decision Y for some user two weeks ago, and the user hasn't converted yet. Do these two give you the same information? No: the user that got Y is less likely to convert than the user that got X, simply because of the time difference.

What you could do to incorporate this extra information is model the conversion process more explicitly, for example as each lever resulting in a particular exponentially distributed time-to-conversion (and then do Bayesian inference over those parameters).
Exactly. What if I download shows and then watch them on my TV? What's the difference between sitting on my couch and watching it on my TV and sitting on my office chair and watching it on my smaller computer monitor? Also, I use a Roku box, so I don't watch shit with commercials anyway.
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I think saying you'll change your name then not doing it is pretty shitty too.

So is posting a 'help I'm being attacked' article but failing to mention you built your app as a demo for WhosHere hoping they would buy it from you as their windows client seems more than a bit misleading.
I'm kind of sad that my daughter won't know what a dial up modem sounds like. I can imagine the conversations now: "This is how we used to get on the internet. Can you hear those tones? That is one computer talking to another." "What, you didn't have wireless? And you had to plug your computer into the phone line? Wow Dad, you're old!"
Is it just me, or do a few of these sites look like the same backend? Example, fiverr and gigbucks.
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Quite frankly, from what I've read (the blog posts only), this seems like a pissing contest that's got out of hand. Each side should back down, stop trying to use the internet to throw poo at each other and work it out. Merge, settle or ignore each other and deal with it when there's a good reason to. Neither of you will lose money if you just compete.

I agree with jrockway's points, especially on the sub par branding, they're both very standard names and that is literally your only problem. If you're all capable of starting up these companies, I'm sure you're capable of rebranding. Both companies should rebrand in my opinion, it's a matter of originality, which neither brand has and neither party has the moral ground to get litigious over.
I don't think you understand how trademarks work.

When you have two products in the same space with very similar names then you have a problem. And it is your obligation as the owner of a trademark to defend it.
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Not to mention that they can mean the same things in certain contexts.

'Clark Evans is near me, as he is in SoHo.'

'Clark Evans is here in SoHo.'

I mean I have to think a bit harder in recalling who's who in this argument. Even the more popular case of Apple Corps v Apple Computer is more distinguishable.
I want to see something like this for music; I hate how badly sorted most public music trackers and search engines are. What.cd is fantastic, but I hate that they're private and don't use them.
It sounds misleading, I agree, but I don't think it's actually misleading. Remember, implementation is more important than ideas.

Nobody involved in this dispute is the first person to think of displaying a list of people that are nearby, and "who's here" and "who's near me" are both equally generic descriptions of this functionality.
Firstly, talking about Wiki definitions is the wrong thing to focus on.

Secondly, the Cold War is a misnomer, the US was very much involved in an open confrontation with the Chinese+Soviets in Korea, and to a lesser extent with their proxies in Vietnam later on.

Yes, the Korean war was fought under the aegis of a resolution issued by the UN security council, but it was a 'hot' war, and part of a broad push against Communist influence.
How are they are a trademark troll for defending their trademark against a similar sounding name ?
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"Hey, Steve. It's John at Cisco. We know you don't like the name iPhone OS since you have iPads now, and we really appreciate the prior settlement with you regarding the mark iPhone.

"I know you want to use the name iOS, and to ensure that we can defend our mark in court in the future, we need you to license the mark IOS from us for $1." Who wouldn't take that? Do you really think a successful business can be run while valuing your marks at a dollar? It's business.
Reading between the lines given the complete lack of similarity between the names, it seems to me you are grasping at straws because your own business model is not viable. If I were an investor, I would really question the sustainability of your startup given you are having to use vc money to shut down competitors as opposed to building constructively a sustainable business. Just my 2 cents.
Weird. They mean EXACTLY the same thing to me.

"All the people who are in the vicinity of my current location"
Ya, very weird to see that trust fund line where in the blog post he says that he can't afford 10k to hire a lawyer and put a donation button up.

I wonder which one is true?
Unless I'm mistaken, the two are not the same. There is a middle ground possible: a developer can publish their own sandboxed apps.

This would get you about half of his "buy non-sandboxed apps directly" advantages (More/Faster Updates, Less Risk, More Money), while still offering the user the advantages of the sandbox (e.g., I can see that a graphics program I downloaded only uses the entitlement "com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-write" and thus can't open network connections behind my back).
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Wouldn't you much rather have people spend their money on better causes e.g. actually saving lives than pathetic disputes like this ?
I thought that Patent Trolls are the ones that just buy up patents and then go hunting to violators while they themselves do not actually make anything that uses the patents. That is shitty to do. I would imagine that Trademark Trolls and IP Trolls would be the same type of thing. This is not that. They have a Trademark on the product they are actively developing/selling/whatever and are trying to defend it. NOW... they are shit bags for thinking the other dude is violating their mark but that is a whole different thing.
I'm not going to argue specifics with you, as I'm not a trademark lawyer. But I bet that if you have a trademark and are worried about a competitor's similar trademark, things can be worked out in a legally sound way without either of the two conditions that WhosHere came up with. You do not have to threaten nuclear war if you just want your neighbor to return the drill he borrowed yesterday.
I find it interesting that the in his post, Brian insinuates that he can't afford to fight this legal battle. However, in the emails between him and the WhosHere people he talks about his large trust fund.
IMFT got NAND down to 20nm with 3K - 5K write endurance. Hynix has plans to produce 15nm soon(unclear on endurance). Many thought getting NAND to it's current level would be impossible, the same could be said about hard drives.

Write amplification isn't much of an issue with smart firmware.

The new memory techs aren't market viable as we speak and it's questionable if first generation commercial devices featuring them will even be available within a few years and at what cost? Many of them also have drawbacks which hamper their viability or parallel the drawbacks of NAND.

I still think a real replacement for NAND is probably a decade out at least.
Yes. WhosHere's answer starts with "We are not patent trolls". They should clearly change it to trademark.

But really their gripe seems to be with borrowing the app concept which they agreed to. But they can only defend their trademark.
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There are two issues that come to mind when I decide how much sympathy to allocate:

1) Is the trademark sufficiently unique to have merit?

2) Is the infringing trademark similar enough to cause confusion?

I'll give WhosHere a pass on #1. It's a poorly-chosen trademark but I've seen worse. However, nobody can claim with a straight face that customers are confusing WhosNearMe for WhosHere. This is preposterous on its face.

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Brian's blog posting (now with a donation button):

"... the deadline to file a response to the lawsuit had passed
and that WhosHere had requested a motion for default judgment
(meaning that they would automatically receive everything they
had asked for - which would effectively bankrupt me..."

"The lawyers I have spoken to thus far are asking me for at
least a $10,000 retainer just to get started on the process
and I don't have those kind of resources laying around."

Compare to Brian's response in the email thread:

"I was born wealthy; I have an obscene trust fund. I assure you
that if required, I will obtain the best legal representation
for corporate litigation in the Silicon Valley. After your
last proposal, I will resist this legal action well beyond
what makes any financial sense, simply out of principal."

And, to complement this, a snippet from Judd Weiss' blog [0]:

"Quick tip: When you do engage the other side (or their
lawyer), whatever you do, never say the line “I’m taking this
all the way to trial, I don’t care what this costs me”.
Everyone says that. Everyone. That doesn’t work with someone
like me. I smell blood. “Oh really, you don’t care what this
costs you? Alright then, let’s find out how much you really
don’t care.” People who say they don’t care about the costs
often cave sooner, because they are showing that they’re weak.
They’re showing that they really don’t have much solid to
fight you with except their loudly stated tolerance for pain.
That tolerance is easy to test. And it’s usually very low when
there’s not much else but puffery to back it up. Any modestly
wise person cares about the financial effects of litigation.
Don’t try to pretend you’re stupid, or else you’re going to
look stupid."

[0] http://hustlebear.com/2010/12/14/how-to-handle-lawyers-threa...
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Seriously... they are not the same. When I think "Who's here?" I think who is in the same place I am. Not just near me. If I am home and someone comes to my house... they are here. If I am home and someone goes to the house across the street... they are near me... but not here.

If "Who's Here" and "Who's Near Me" are close enough to cause a problem... someone needs to warn Facebook that their new app Camera is pretty friggin' close to the app that Apple already had. What was that called? Oh right... CAMERA.
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Um, WhosHere has over 5 million downloads I don't think they asked them to change their name to save their business model.
I'd like to see you hire an entire department's worth of people, wait for them to devise an API for your agency, code it, provision server space and servers, and deploy in 12 months!
As a startup your trademark/brand is one of the most valuable asset you have.

Only inexperienced/naive startups don't defend it vigorously.
Not suprising how Apple inspired everyone else.
What about a small organization or a one-man e-commerce company where database performance affects conversions, and you're the one-and-only tech-guy?
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It seems to me like this was all being done privately until Mr Hamacheck got a lot of attention and the wrath of HN on his side. I don't see how the other founders had much choice but to explain their side - otherwise they look like a cold, heartless corporation. The original story seemed very much like a guy trying to run a business was blindsided by a huge, funded company. But after the response it seems clear that he had been communicating with them and even proposing business relationships before even launching his product.

My opinion of the situation was definitely changed after this response letter. It kinda goes to show that these kind of arguments make everybody involved look bad, though.
I'm only guessing, but I would say the latter is true and former a bluff.
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