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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: ELI Founder Matthew Chan Returns to ELI After Year-Long Exile

« on: February 01, 2014, 05:52:01 PM »

Yes, I agree with you.  Even I surprised myself I was away that long.  Time flies. I had to go back to the forum calendar to see when I lasted posted anything. 

Honestly, I am back but I am not that thrilled about it given the circumstances.

He really is a Copyright Cow.  Only a cow could be so dumb to send bogus extortion letters to three of the most outspoken opponents of stock photo copyright extortion there is.  Timmy sent a letter to me, you, and Oscar! 

I have to believe that Timmy's staff and his cohorts in the copyright extortion business are shaking their heads over this thinking, "How dumb can Timmy be?"  It was nice, quiet, and drama-free on ELI for 10 months. But he could not leave us alone.

Timmy even had the nerve to send an extortion letter to Oscar Michelen's house!  Is that stupid or what?  Did Timmy think Oscar would just cower down and not respond to this unprofessional behavior?  WTF.

I for one an more than Happy to share Timmy with you, your being silent for this long was rather surprising to me, but not as surprising that none other than McCormack Intellectual Property Law actually is responsible for you coming back. maybe Timothy B. McCormack isn't so bad after all...

Nah, he's still an asshat and dickwad in my humble opinion... I can still have my opinion can't I??

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: ELI Founder Matthew Chan Returns to ELI After Year-Long Exile

« on: February 01, 2014, 05:44:25 PM »

Yes, I guess the whole "Founder-in-Silence" deal is over now.  It was nice while it lasted.

Hey - You need to change the "Founder-In-Silence" thing! Welcome back!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: ELI Founder Matthew Chan Returns to ELI After Year-Long Exile

« on: February 01, 2014, 05:42:51 PM »

Hello Mulligan,

I can honestly say that I am not sure I am absolutely happy to be back.  I was pretty happy and content staying in my corner of the universe. Unfortunately, it has been perceived as a sign of weakness and cowardice to the point it has actually ENCOURAGED more attacks on me and ELI.  That absolutely has to stop.

Ah, I sense the ELI embers heating up, soon to burst back into the Matt Chan flame we all know and love.

Welcome back, Matthew.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: ELI Founder Matthew Chan Returns to ELI After Year-Long Exile

« on: February 01, 2014, 05:37:55 PM »

I say this with the utmost respect.  Timmy got me to do something that you were not able to do despite your best arguments, persuasion, and flattering efforts.  He is a much more accomplished "motivator" than you can ever be, Oscar.  I am sorry to have to tell you that in front of everyone. 

Hey - You need to change the "Founder-In-Silence" thing! Welcome back!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: ELI Founder Matthew Chan Returns to ELI After Year-Long Exile

« on: February 01, 2014, 05:34:52 PM »

Wow, what a warm reception.  I get love and joy from one side, fire and brimstone from the "other side".

You guys have no idea how it felt to be silent for over 10 months and how much discipline and tongue-biting it took especially when you have lawyer thugs try to kick you while you are down.

The kicking I endured from the Sack of Shit from Seattle (SSS) was very hard to not speak about. After all, I'm not forbidden to comment about him or any other copyright extortionist. But for him to directly accuse and attack ELI and copyright-trolls.com simultaneously with one of his extortion letters with bogus accusations was just too much. There was no way I could be silent anymore.

The quieter I got, the more passive I became, the more he attacked and piled on. I felt like the kid on the playground who was trying to avoid a fight but they "bully" decided to kick sand in my face once too many times.

I don't like bullies kicking sand in my face.  Somehow, a nasty rumor was started that I lost my gumption along the way. I can say, that it is NOT true.

I can be quite stubborn as my friends and allies know.  When I decided to stay silent and stay away from ELI, I meant it.  It was no B.S. declaration.  I figured by staying silent and staying away, I could avoid more time-wasting hassles.  But it has not worked out that way at all. As I said, my silence and tongue-biting has been taken as a sign of weakness and cowering.  No more of that.

It is time to start reporting and sharing information of what happened during my long absence.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: ELI Founder Matthew Chan Returns to ELI After Year-Long Exile

« on: February 01, 2014, 12:15:41 PM »

Hi Stinger,

I would not say i was "sleeping", more like "hibernating" at best! 

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Getty Images Letter Forum / ELI Founder Matthew Chan Returns to ELI After Year-Long Exile

« on: January 31, 2014, 10:44:48 PM »

It is with mixed feelings that I am officially announcing my return to ELI after my nearly year-long (10+ months) self-imposed exile.  I say “mixed feelings” because I don’t consider my return to be an entirely voluntary one. It is a direct response to the most recent attack on ELI.

On January 27, 2014, I unexpectedly received a copyright infringement / defamation / harassment letter from Seattle Attorney Timothy B. McCormack, more infamously known as ELI’s most despised copyright infringement collections lawyer for Getty Images.

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/getty-images-letter-forum/mccormack-legal-sends-copyright-infringementdefamationharassment-letter/

Although I maintained ownership of ELI and administrative rights to the website throughout my self-imposed exile period (from March 28, 2013 until January 31, 2014), ELI was managed and operated independently by volunteer ELI community members with no daily involvement from me.  I trusted them to keep ELI alive and operational and they did a great job.

The reason for my self-imposed exile was my unhappy reaction to an unfavorable legal ruling during a court hearing from February 28, 2013. Having no criminal record, I was stunned by the outcome of this lawsuit. Even more stunning was that, despite my best efforts to defend myself in that hearing, I entirely lost the case. The good news is that with ELI Community support, I appealed the case in August 2013. My appeal case is currently awaiting a ruling from the GA Court of Appeals: http://www.gaappeals.us/docket/results_one_record.php?docr_case_num=A14A0014

Since then, McCormack has made multiple attempts to attack, accuse, and discredit me with lies, half-truths, distortions, and exaggerations. He did it with the Muscogee County Superior Court with his hearsay "affidavit". He did it with the PDN article.  He did it with Matthew Cuomo (of Cuomo LLC) trying to discredit both me and Oscar. He did it with the GA Court of Appeals with his outlandish excuse of an “amicus brief”. Each of those times during the last 10+ months, he was met with public silence and no public rebuttals from me.

And now, he comes at both me and the owner of http://copyright-trolls.com simultaneously with a form letter of frivolous accusations and more legal threats.

http://copyright-trolls.com/site/seattle-attorney-mccormack-ip-law-claims-copyright-infringementdefamation/

It has been clear that my efforts to be the better man have been unsuccessful. McCormack has taken my ongoing silence and self-imposed exile from ELI as an apparent sign of my weakness and that I no longer have the will defend myself.  He is absolutely wrong in this.

People should know that in the last 10+ months, I’ve had several ELI members, including Oscar Michelen, periodically ask me to return and resume my role as leader of ELI. For both personal and professional reasons, each and every time I’ve been adamant about staying silent and not publicly posting or commenting on ELI.

However, McCormack single-handedly accomplished something within 60-seconds of my reading his letter that no one else could in the last 10+ months. I am breaking my silence, ending my self-imposed exile, and returning to ELI as Leader to publicly defend myself and ELI.  Unlike my adversary, I have no problems staying in the light whereas he prefers to operate in secrecy behind closed doors.

And I have a lot to say and information to share and report. Stay tuned.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / MOVED: SWEDEN: Letter from a law firm recieved!

« on: June 11, 2013, 12:39:14 AM »

This topic has been moved to UK Getty Images Letter Forum.

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=3731.0

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ELI Responses: Media Coverage of Chan v. Ellis Case / Read the March 27, 2013 Daily Dot article about ELI and my PPO

« on: March 28, 2013, 12:26:28 AM »

The writer, Kevin Collier, of the Daily Dote appears to have picked up this story after reading the recent EFF article about ELI and my PPO.

http://www.dailydot.com/news/linda-ellis-dash-poet-censorship-copyright-troll/

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ELI Responses: Media Coverage of Chan v. Ellis Case / Read the March 26, 2013 Electronic Frontier Foundation article about ELI & PPO

« on: March 28, 2013, 12:21:10 AM »

Oscar provided a lengthy interview to the lawyers of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on March 26, 2013. 

Two hours after that interview, EFF wrote a great legal analysis of the PPO overreach on ELI and it's readership.  EFF says, the PPO goes way too far in its scope.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/georgia-court-order-threatens-message-boards-everywhere

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ELI Responses: Media Coverage of Chan v. Ellis Case / Read the March 23, 2013 FightCopyrightTrolls article about ELI and PPO

« on: March 28, 2013, 12:16:39 AM »

FightCopyrightTrolls wrote an article on ELI and my PPO on March 23, 2013.  FCT considers ELI a brother-in-arms that is currently in distress.

http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/2013/03/23/copyright-troll-linda-ellis-succeeds-in-censoring-her-outspoken-critic-the-founder-of-extortionletterinfo-com/

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ELI Responses: Media Coverage of Chan v. Ellis Case / Read the March 27, 2013 Ars Technica article about ELI and PPO

« on: March 28, 2013, 12:13:42 AM »

Oscar and I provided a joint phone interview to writer, Timothy Lee, of Ars Technica on March 26, 2013. The article came out the day after.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/i-made-some-stupid-posts-anti-troll-site-gagged-after-threats-against-poet/

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ELI Responses: Media Coverage of Chan v. Ellis Case / Re: Marietta Daily Journal Reader Comment: Gun Threat Against Matthew Chan

« on: March 21, 2013, 05:18:35 PM »

Because there are so many reader comments, there is now a "View More Comments" link.  Even Southern Patriot's gun threat against me is shown when we thought it was removed.

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ELI Responses: Media Coverage of Chan v. Ellis Case / Re: ELI Response to the March 15, 2013 Marietta Daily Journal Article

« on: March 20, 2013, 08:15:13 PM »

It's too bad your MDJ comments were removed. It would have added a different dimension to that long string of reader comments.

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ELI Responses: Media Coverage of Chan v. Ellis Case / Re: ELI Response to the March 15, 2013 PDN Pulse Article

« on: March 20, 2013, 08:13:59 PM »

It is a digital still from one of my videos.  It doesn't bother me.  They could have chosen a much worse photo.