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i dream that an overworked, tired patent/copyright troll sends me a threatening legal notice for using something stupid like fonts or a a css class or a color hue ala pantone colors in a website of mine which threatens me with financial ruin by implicating me using DMCA or some american legislation..... i just want to experience this.

i don't have a legal notice fetish if that is what you are thinking, i just... want to see a stupid letter threatening me which i can laugh off.

remember TBP people had a public page many many years ago which had DMCA notices and their replies. That.....

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TBP laughed it off, but they still went to jail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial

With a dubious procedure, the trial was a farce.

Lawyers aren't going to help when the judges themselves are corrupted.

Put the Free Speech Flag on your website. Its colors represent an illegal number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Flag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

> a color hue ala pantone colors

Pantone don't own colors, what they own is the relationship between the name they have given and the color it represents.

So you can use the RGB representation of Pantone colors, no problem. You can also say "the logo color is Pantone XYZ". What you are not allowed to do is, for example, make an image processing tool that converts between Pantone color names and RGB values. And even that is debated.

Pantone is a color matching service. The idea is that you can say "use Pantone XYZ" and you know exactly how it will look like everywhere, be it on screen, in print, or as a plastic part, and Pantone business is to sell reference material that helps ensuring it is the case.

And you can't use Pantone on the web anyways, browsers don't support it (because they don't have a license), you will have to use RGB values or whatever CSS supports.

just humor me, what if we create a color matching service that actually does nothing but "shows" that it does work. it doesn't actually have to work, only get the pantone lawyers all excited

Surely there's a better way to maximize the amount of these people's time you're wasting than to merely use the font and laugh when they send you a letter that you intend to ignore.

Like perhaps we compromise a site and switch the font so that they sue our target. I'm not sure what that target should be. Either another group of trolls that the world would be better off without, or we bait them into a fight they can't win. Get them to sue their own law firm or something.

Somehow switching the font on Oracle's site would be fun.

While sneaking an Oracle database instance into Adobe's backend.

As much as I'd enjoy watching Oracle and Adobe tear each other apart, we have to make sure that https://thetypefounders.com/ goes down with them. Presumably they have some kind of credentials with adobe? We need to frame them for the hacks (this development only to surface after Oracle and Adobe have sunk millions into this).

To manufacture a motive, we can plant evidence that whatever bunch of lawyers is behind the harassment believed that they could also make money from Oracle v Adobe.

> i just... want to see a stupid letter threatening me which i can laugh off.

Are you familiar with the UK's TV licensing notices? Those are really funny

I don't think it's an empty threat. What's your plan for when they sue you?

uh,,, not live in the US for starters?

be careful what you wish for

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