Schadenfreude. I Haz It.

Skidmark sent me a link to a story that had me giggling like a tickled hermit:

Righthaven copyright trolls never had the right to sue, have their asses handed to them by the EFF

Righthaven is the extortion racket spun out by the Las Vegas Review-Journal: they received a license from the Review-Journal for its copyrights, then attempted to make the license pay by threatening any blogger who quoted the newspaper with expensive lawsuits and domain confiscation. They firehosed these legal threats around without regard for their legal merits (and attracted more desperate, unethical newspapers to their client roster in the process) and so it was inevitable that eventually they'd misfire at someone who got pissed off enough to do something about it.

Go read. It's pretty damn funny, especially considering that it was someone from Democratic Underground that brought forth the hammer. Bet they'd have a screaming fit if they knew it would be helping Clayton Cramer... It appears as though the group was set up for the exclusive purpose of filing lawsuits, except that since that's all the group does, they can't be affected by alleged copyright violations... Everyone say it with me... "Awwwwwww"...

This is *definitely* a case of "the enemy of my enemy is my ally"...

That is all.