I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for them to send one of these extortion notices to the wrong guy who will get enraged enough to shoot up their office.
I wonder if a chain of such shootings would set a precedent for change.
It is amazing how much rage a story like this can produce in people who work in non-legal professions. The law-firms involved, of course, don't see it that way. This is just work for them-- although I can't fathom how they can sleep at night making a living by being what amounts to a parasite.
I've worked in a situation where I believed that what I was doing was fairly unethical. I wasn't sending out bogus legal threats, but I was doing development work for a company I consider flat-out evil.
I dealt with it by donating all the money I made during those hours to a relevant charity. It helped.
Right, let's call for violence. Violence will solve the problem. There's nothing wrong with shooting people who's legal business practices you disagree with.
Maybe it can be done in a Stand Your Ground state. I'm sure that the patent trolls won't mind, as long as it's "completely within the bounds of the law," just as their business is.
That would be way too expensive, I'm sure they hold a patent on a method on expressing customer dissatisfaction via chemical reactions to convert chemical energy into kinetic motion.
How would that one individual even find them? PO boxes and a "legal department call center" are all that seem to be given and it would seem difficult to track them down.
Crazy people... they get crazy. Camp out at the PO box and wait for someone to pick up the mail. Get a job at that UPS store location. Pay off one of the kid employees that work there to give you the name and address on file. Follow the person that picks up the mail home. Look up his information based on his home address. Collect all his trash, find out where he works. follow him to work. then wreak havoc on all his coworkers!
you are really not all that creative are you... :)
Well...it looks like I'm not going to be sending you any patent infringement paperwork (whether it is legit or not)! Although, for somebody who has just snapped and is going to wreak physical vengeance, I wouldn't put a normal thought process behind it. Which means you may not be able to count on logically thinking and finding these people.
Mentally ill or "crazy" people may still be able to think logically. Having experienced psychotic episodes that included planning "bad" things, I can assure you it did not interfere with logical planning. Recounting it later, the clarity of thought was quite clear, disturbingly. The Unabomber is a well-known example.
Someone's goals, utility functions, and even certainty values for some beliefs may be very different than "normal", but it doesn't mean they aren't able to reason logically within those constraints.
I wonder if a chain of such shootings would set a precedent for change.