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bitdamaged Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 100101010011 <-- right about here Insane since: Mar 2000	posted 03-22-2001 19:52 Anyone know a good contract lawyer? IF you haven't seen it www.nosepilot.com is one of the most awesome flash pieces I have ever seen but now he's getting nailed for $16K in what is quickly becoming an ugly legal issue. He has a journal of whats going on up on the site. Ironically I too have had a bad expierience with this company. I have a few friends that are lawyers or in school in CA I'm gonna see if any of them have any advice. Walking the Earth like Kane [This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 03-22-2001).] [This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 03-22-2001).]
Xdreamer.ch Maniac (V) Inmate From: Switzerland Insane since: Mar 2001	posted 03-22-2001 19:59 Site doesn't work :-( btw: What is a lawyer??? thx cu ~Xdreamer.ch~
JakeB Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: us Insane since: Oct 2000	posted 03-22-2001 20:10 i think he meant www.nosepilot.com
bitdamaged Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 100101010011 <-- right about here Insane since: Mar 2000	posted 03-22-2001 20:18 yup yup thanks I edited it. Um I have no idea what you call a lawyer x umm. A solicitor?, barrister? attorny? legal cousel? Rechtsanwalt? Someone to help him with the legal stuff Walking the Earth like Kane [This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 03-22-2001).]
Ducati Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: in your head Insane since: Feb 2001	posted 03-22-2001 22:06 I don't know what this guy was doing with his website?? Why don't he just file Chapter 7?
Boudga Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Jacks raging bile duct.... Insane since: Mar 2000	posted 03-22-2001 22:10 nah he should plead insanity....works for me!
kretsminky Maniac (V) Inmate From: A little lower... lower... ahhhhhh, thats the spot Insane since: Jun 2000	posted 03-22-2001 22:13 He should just file a Ch. 7. After he did the company could no longer harass him. I was trying to find his email address because he thinks they would go after his family. That lawyer from gisol is probably filling his head with all kinds of BS.
DocOzone Maniac (V) Lord Mad Scientist Sovereign of all the lands Ozone and just beyond that little green line over there... From: Stockholm, Sweden Insane since: Mar 1994	posted 03-22-2001 23:02 As I mentioned in an article not too long ago, "Success shall be... punished." I always get the willies when I read about things like this, what with my higher traffic sites totalling out at about 60gig/month, 1/4 of what Nosepilot is being charged for. Ouch! I don't have an extra $4000 a month, thank you very much! I'm pretty sure I'm still cool, VISI handles the main OZONE site, for which I doubt I'll ever really be charged, and the Dreamohost sites only really have this one and handson.nu for bigger bandwidth, 6 gigs and 15 gigs respectively. (I get 5 gigs per domain, they host 10 domains for me and their support people assured me I could lump it all together, cool!) I still worry what will happen when I move the the new Dreamhost2 service, I know it automates the notification process, and I do not think it understands about lumping quotas, heh. Hard to say what should happen with nosepilot, and what, if anything, we could do about it. (I've aready resolved not to host with gisol.com!) I'm all too aware of how close to the edge we all hang, if you actually manage to create something popular, you can be in big trouble. Where's the justice? Your pal, -doc-
Underdog Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Toronto, ON, CA Insane since: Feb 2001	posted 03-22-2001 23:07 In a fair universe, Gisol would get their asses handed to them by a high class lawyer doing some charity work. This whole thing is re-goddammed-diculous! Nosepilot is so cool. I'm pullin for the guy, and I think this should really get put around the whole Asylum, and then from there onwards and upwards. DOG ----- THE
Bugimus Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: New California Insane since: Mar 2000	posted 03-22-2001 23:28 I read through his journal and now he's just asking that everyone that visits his site send him money. Um... I'm not sure that's going to fly but if someone finds a solution we can all get behind, I'm game. I'm definitely steering clear of gisol.com!!!
Allewyn Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Solitary confinement Insane since: Feb 2001	posted 03-23-2001 02:54 Email campaigns can work if they are done tastefully, that is without spamming. Or would that be spamming? We got 950+ voices here. Is this just a dumb idea?

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bitdamaged
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 100101010011 <-- right about here
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted 03-22-2001 19:52

Anyone know a good contract lawyer?

IF you haven't seen it www.nosepilot.com is one of the most awesome flash pieces I have ever seen but now he's getting nailed for $16K in what is quickly becoming an ugly legal issue. He has a journal of whats going on up on the site.

Ironically I too have had a bad expierience with this company. I have a few friends that are lawyers or in school in CA I'm gonna see if any of them have any advice.

Walking the Earth like Kane

[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 03-22-2001).]

[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 03-22-2001).]

Xdreamer.ch
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Switzerland
Insane since: Mar 2001

posted 03-22-2001 19:59

Site doesn't work :-(

btw: What is a lawyer???

thx

cu
~Xdreamer.ch~

JakeB
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: us
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted 03-22-2001 20:10

i think he meant www.nosepilot.com

bitdamaged
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 100101010011 <-- right about here
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted 03-22-2001 20:18

yup yup thanks I edited it.

Um I have no idea what you call a lawyer x umm. A solicitor?, barrister? attorny? legal cousel? Rechtsanwalt?

Someone to help him with the legal stuff

Walking the Earth like Kane

[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 03-22-2001).]

Ducati
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: in your head
Insane since: Feb 2001

posted 03-22-2001 22:06

I don't know what this guy was doing with his website??

Why don't he just file Chapter 7?

Boudga
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Jacks raging bile duct....
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted 03-22-2001 22:10

nah he should plead insanity....works for me!

kretsminky
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: A little lower... lower... ahhhhhh, thats the spot
Insane since: Jun 2000

posted 03-22-2001 22:13

He should just file a Ch. 7. After he did the company could no longer harass him. I was trying to find his email address because he thinks they would go after his family. That lawyer from gisol is probably filling his head with all kinds of BS.

DocOzone
Maniac (V) Lord Mad Scientist
Sovereign of all the lands Ozone and just beyond that little green line over there...

From: Stockholm, Sweden
Insane since: Mar 1994

posted 03-22-2001 23:02

As I mentioned in an article not too long ago, "Success shall be... punished." I always get the willies when I read about things like this, what with my higher traffic sites totalling out at about 60gig/month, 1/4 of what Nosepilot is being charged for. Ouch! I don't have an extra $4000 a month, thank you very much! I'm pretty sure I'm still cool, VISI handles the main OZONE site, for which I doubt I'll ever really be charged, and the Dreamohost sites only really have this one and handson.nu for bigger bandwidth, 6 gigs and 15 gigs respectively. (I get 5 gigs per domain, they host 10 domains for me and their support people assured me I could lump it all together, cool!) I still worry what will happen when I move the the new Dreamhost2 service, I know it automates the notification process, and I do *not* think it understands about lumping quotas, heh.

Hard to say what should happen with nosepilot, and what, if anything, we could do about it. (I've aready resolved not to host with gisol.com!) I'm all too aware of how close to the edge we all hang, if you actually manage to create something popular, you can be in *big* trouble. Where's the justice?

Your pal, -doc-

Underdog
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: Toronto, ON, CA
Insane since: Feb 2001

posted 03-22-2001 23:07

In a fair universe, Gisol would get their asses handed to them by a high class lawyer doing some charity work. This whole thing is re-goddammed-diculous! Nosepilot is so cool. I'm pullin for the guy, and I think this should really get put around the whole Asylum, and then from there onwards and upwards.

DOG
-----
THE

Bugimus
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: New California
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted 03-22-2001 23:28

I read through his journal and now he's just asking that everyone that visits his site send him money. Um... I'm not sure that's going to fly but if someone finds a solution we can all get behind, I'm game.

I'm definitely steering clear of gisol.com!!!

Allewyn
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Solitary confinement
Insane since: Feb 2001

posted 03-23-2001 02:54

Email campaigns can work if they are done tastefully, that is without spamming. Or would that be spamming? We got 950+ voices here. Is this just a dumb idea?