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Creative Commons plot exposed [Mysteries]December 18th, 2007 at 10:46 pmSource:Valleywag Apparently someone told Joseph Smarr, Plaxo’s chief platform architect, that he’s a “rock star.” Joseph, Joseph, Joseph. They were referring to your programming skills. Smarr does have the rock-and-roll look down, if not the sound. Here’s a pic of him striking a hot pose.
After TorrentSpy’s operators directory headings and forum posts, withholding names of moderators, and concealing IP addresses of users, the Los Angeles court slammed the site with a $30,000 fine and found it guilty of the copyright charges, saying its actions made a fair trial impossible. Founder Justin Bunnell plans to appeal the ruling, saying, “It’s not like they proved that TorrentSpy infringed copyright.” True enough. But TorrentSpy’s data-deletion rampage meant that the MPAA didn’t even have to.
At some point in 2009, the Creative Commons people are going to reveal that every single one of their licenses actually forbids any use at all, even LOOKING at a CC web page, and does so in such a way that it indemnifies Disney, Microsoft and Google for every page on the Internet. The resulting $463 billion settlement will make Boing Boing’s editors the wealthiest 4.5 people in the galaxy. All I ask is that they kill us last.
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It’s always the coverup, never the crime. The popular BitTorrent-indexing site TorrentSpy.com, which helps users find shared “torrent” files to download, sabotaged its chances of escaping from a legal tangle with the Motion Picture Association of America. TorrentSpy had beensued by the MPAA in February 2006 for copyright infringement. The Los Angeles District Court asked it to start 
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