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    DEFCON 17: That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars

    Christiaan008

    3 HN recommenders · recommended in 5 months, 2015–2026

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    31:28 · 1.7M views · Jan 15, 2011

    Jason Scott of textfiles.com tells the story at DEFCON 17 of being sued for two billion dollars by a scammer who plagued him and others for over a decade. The talk is tragic and funny, covering what he learned about misleading schemes.

    HN commenters recommend it as a great, hilarious talk about legal threats and cease and desist letters.

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    5 comments from Hacker News

    1. @hobsJan 2015· in “The MS-DOS Showcase”

      If you don't know him already, textfiles has one of my favorite people on the internet (Jason Scott) running a lot of things, and hoarding interesting material for our future. As far as I can tell the dude just loves MS-DOS games and hence we have this great project. (I imagine there are a lot of contributors, but he is clearly pushing it forward) He gave a great talk at DEFCON 17 called "That one time I was sued for two billion dollars." in which he gives a few more details about textfiles if you are interested. this video

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @__zMay 2015· in “I Want Your AOL CDs”

      This guy has gotten cease and desist letters from catheter companies as well as been sued for two billion dollars. Watch his talk on the matter, it is really great - this video

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    3. @RendelloJan 2026· in “Anna's Archive is sued for $13T”

      For a less-serious but similar situation, Jason Scott (textfiles.com, Internet Archive) gave a hilarious DEFCON talk called "That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars": this video

      RecommendsView on HN
    4. @mhh__Sep 2021· in “UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy”

      It's no better than this video (That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars) level argument, just with better lawyer-speak. The US is sheltering a diplomat(spy?) who negligently ran over and killed a British civilian as we speak, but these guys are the real danger.

      CriticalView on HN
    5. @reitzensteinmApr 2020· in “textfiles.com”

      The owner of the site gave a talk at DEFCON 17, "That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars" this video

      CitesView on HN