Submitted by hypatia on 7 February, 2012 - 19:40
An anonymous emailer sent us this with the subject "ACTA":
Soon, indeed.
Submitted by hypatia on 31 January, 2012 - 11:35
In the process of moving our Twitter account to @righthaven from @righthavened we found something quite interesting. If that's the word.
"DMCANOW" (@dmcanow, http://www.dmcanow.com) was among our followers.
We hear you even now: "What legal sorcery is this?" Fear not, for DMCANOW has the answer:
Submitted by hypatia on 31 January, 2012 - 07:14
Yes, it's true. We moved our Twitter account from @righthavened to @righthaven. We know. We're annoyingly flighty.
Submitted by socrates on 30 January, 2012 - 15:56
It is almost as if the world is itching for another hosting provider that, to borrow perversely from H. L. Mencken's "The New Poetry Movement" spits upon its hands, hoists the black flag, and begins slitting throats. And, it seems, some of the world would like that hosting provider to be Righthaven.com.
We are sorry to disappoint you.
Submitted by socrates on 28 January, 2012 - 10:31
An update on Righthaven.com:
We are very excited to have taken delivery of the second set of Righthaven.com servers this week. By now the techs are diligently assembling everything and making them ready to drop into cabinets in our Swiss datacenter. After not-very-long debate and given our experience (and that of our upstream provider) with their hardware, we have elected to make Righthaven.com a Supermicro shop. We are big fans of the gang over there. (Hi guys and gals!)
Submitted by socrates on 22 January, 2012 - 13:53
right·havened, v.
raɪtˈheɪv(ə)nd
past participle, past tense of right·haven (verb)
1. trans. To turn the tables on.
2. To inflict total karmic defeat upon, especially by means of an opponent's purported strengths.
3. To reclaim a maligning term and adopt it as a banner.
4. @righthavened; see: Twitter
Submitted by hypatia on 22 January, 2012 - 11:37
A favorite tactic of proponents of more expansive and more intrusive control over digital communications is to equate any skeptical inquiry into their methods and motives with being "Anti-IP," in favor of "piracy" or "theft." Anyone bold enough to ask tough questions or otherwise question the wisdom of grand schemes of central control is tarred and feathered as being on the side of willful and blatant infringers of intellectual property rights. And why not?
Historically this tactic has been remarkably effective in branding opponents and chilling further discussion on the topic. Throw a little bit of xenophobia, "for the children" and "terrorism" (all three were hauled out at one time or another by various SOPA and PIPA advocates) and you have the makings of a very potent distortion campaign. This goes a long way to explaining the sort of tweets that had been emanating until recently from the personal twitter account of Righthaven.com Crystal Jellyfish nominee Christine Jones, Executive Vice President, Corporate Secretary, and General Counsel of GoDaddy.
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Protection from
Evil Foreigners, Boundless Extraterritoriality, and Apple Pie
Submitted by hypatia on 22 January, 2012 - 01:28
On December 22, 2011 GoDaddy posted the following statement on their support webpage:
We’ve listened to our customers. Go Daddy is no longer supporting the SOPA legislation.
Including a link to their statement on the issue. The first commenter on the thread appears to have been taken in:
by Travis_McCrea on December 23rd, 2011
I am glad you are opposing it… but it’s too late. I will be moving my domains off the service after Christmas is done with.
More on that below.
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Christine Jones distinguished herself by actions of exceptionally yielding flaccidity in late 2011 and the early weeks of 2012 while serving as an Executive Vice President, Corporate Secretary and General Counsel at the United States based hosting provider "GoDaddy" where 
