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Embattled Burners Ask Community for Support
[Update 10/1/14]: please help with the modest amount they are raising to mount a defense. Napalm Dragon, who is being sued by BMOrg who never registered their trademark in Canada, has asked for help on...
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Back In The Day
In the current lawsuit between “non-profit” BMOrg, and non-profit BurnBC, a Canadian arts collective, BurnBC claim that “Burning Man culture” was something that arose in Canada independently of how...
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Help Canada
BurnBC, the non-profit collective of (some) Canadian Burners who is being sued by BMOrg for $40,000 for daring to have a legally registered trademark in their own country that they’ve been using for...
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Quick Update from Canada
One of our readers asked us today on Facebook what was going on with the lawsuit between Decommodification, LLC, a for-profit US company which did not exist before 2010, who are trying to use the term...
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Commodifying Decommodification
A guest post from our reader Pantsless Santa. It’s an eye-opener! The desire of these people to laugh at the very principles they created, and told us we had to live by, seems to know no bounds. image:...
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Burn BC Admits Defeat In Battle For Public Domain
Image: Roger Luijten/Flickr (Creative Commons) The epic fight between Burners in Canada and the corporate conglomerate of Decommodifcation LLC, the Burning Man Project, and Black Rock City LLC...
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Quiznos Commodifies Burner Culture [Updates]
20th Century Fox has a new film coming out “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials”. Quiznos makes sandwiches. Put two and two together, and what do you get? Burning Man 2.0. When the Shark ate the Subway....
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Suing For Your Supper [Update]
Thanks very much to Burner ShaggyDog for this guest post about some of the legal issues surrounding the recent Quiznos parody. The BMOrg has put out quite a bit of bluster regarding a certain ad for a...
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Victory for the Little Guy! [Updates]
Over the last couple of years, we’ve been following with keen interest a lawsuit in Canada. The plaintiff was Decommodification, LLC – a private company the founders set up, which owns all the...
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Anti-Burner Judge Gets Spanked by Appeals Circuit for the SEVENTH Time
Burning Man announced today they won their appeal. Burners were left scratching their heads, without Propaganda Czar Will Chase there to put the usual spin on things. What does it all mean? Who’s suing...
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“It Wasn’t Me, It Was The Neighbors”– Satya Yuga Defense Begins
So far, Satya Yuga Collective founder Derrick Ion has not been charged with any crime in relation to the so-called “Oakland Ghost Ship Fire” which killed 36 people at the beginning of December. Nobody...
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How To Deal With Cops At Burning Man: 2017
A guest post from Mark Atwood How to deal with cops at Burning Man (2017 update) by Mark Atwood (Feel free to print out, share, and repost. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution...
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Dave Acton Sues Jason Goodman [Update]
I mentioned these characters in CryptoBeast episode #2 and Short Bus Physics With Quinn and J.Go. Jason Goodman is in cahoots with the one-eyebrowed Sith Lord Quinn Michaels, who says that there is a...
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Acton v Goodman – Was Charleston Dirty Bomb Hoax an FBI Operation? [Updates]
[Update: some new analysis from Tracking the Leopard Meroz, go to their site for a summary] Parties The general description states, “This complaint alleges that the defendant, and his cooperative of...
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DPW vs The Org: Labor Relations Board Ruling
Towards the end of last year, we heard about a big case – one that dealt with issues that Burners who create Black Rock City have had for many years with the organization that collects the money and...
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Acton v Goodman: Judge Rules, Off To New York [Update]
In the YouTube truther trial of the century, CIA whistleblower Dave Acton (Sweigert) is suing cinema verite Faux News journalist Jason Goodman over his alleged abuse of his “Crowdsource the Truth”...
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Jason Goodman’s Conspiracy Theory
Robert David Steele (L) vs Jason Goodman (R) Once again I have a dubious Internet character with government connections making preposterous allegations against me. Sigh. Dave “Acton” Sweigert’s...
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Jason Goodman, Religious Victim?
A few new developments in the case of Dave Sweigert and Robert David Steele vs Jason Goodman. Dave Sweigert has his own lawsuit against Goodman in the Southern District of New York. He has also filed...
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Acton vs Goodman – Monkey Business
Some important new documents have been filed in this landmark case. Thanks to Leopard Meroz for publishing them. Document 113 request for discovery from Jason Goodman Document 116 Movant’s Response to...
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LARPWars Part 2 – Moving the Goalposts
Part 1 – Proliferation of Lawfare Some big things have happened recently in the #LARPwars lawsuits. We are talking about three cases that intersect in dramatic ways: Dave Acton vs Jason Goodman,...
View ArticleFreedom’s Just Another Word for Being Really Hard to Find
by Whatsblem the Pro No less a light than R. Buckminster Fuller once said that “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing...
View ArticleBurning Man Org to Burners: We Own You
by Whatsblem the Pro People who don’t know what Burning Man is tend to assume that it’s just another festival; a place where consumers go to enjoy passive entertainment arranged by event promoters....
View ArticleJudge Backs Off Pershing Roadblock: Deal is Done
Judge Jones in Reno, who said the settlement deal cut between Burning Man and Pershing County was “illegal, unenforceable and absurd“, and suggested the lawyers involved should go back to school – has...
View ArticleCanada Draws Battle Lines for Burner Culture [Updates]
Is there anyone out there who thinks Burning Man doesn’t care about lawsuits any more, because it is a charity and cares more about spreading Burner culture than it does about profit? If so, sadly, you...
View ArticleSteer Clear of Mono
Burner Brandon has a warning for Burners contemplating taking I-395: steer clear of Mono. The anti-Burner sheriff who set up special checkpoints last year has been voted out of the town – but this...
View Article12 Legal Tips for a Smoother Burn
Lawgives has put together this Free Legal Guide. It’s a great list of legal tips for all Burners to benefit from, big thanks to Lawgives and all the Reddit contributors. Lawgives says: Know your legal...
View ArticleBURNILEAKS: Bullying the Burners [Updates]
The post-Burning Man headaches for BMOrg continue to mount. If you believe in karma or physics, then you understand that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you threaten legal...
View ArticleSteele v Goodman: 159,160,161
From what I hear Leopard Meroz has been targeted by the Satanists which has scared her off covering the various lawsuits against Jason Goodman. I will be publishing court documents here, and providing...
View ArticleActon v Goodman – Judge Invites Plaintiff to Re-File
Judge Valerie Caproni has made a new ruling in the Southern District of New York. She threw out all Jason Goodman’s claims and admonished him. Dave Acton has written about it on his new blog...
View ArticleActon v Goodman: Judge Rules On Amended Complaint
In breaking #LARPwars news, there’s some good news for George Webb’s brother today. Pundits like Defango and Marcus Conte reported with glee that his case in the Southern District of New York had been...
View ArticleJason Goodman Crippled By My Opening Legal Salvo
Playing the victim has brought Jason Goodman this far. A channel with 85,700 subscribers that he can’t stream to. A long list of burned bridges from former guests on his show that he later betrayed. A...
View Article#SDNY Update – Dave Acton v Jason Goodman
A lot has been happening in this so-called Fake Lawsuit, which is in fact very real. The Magistrate Judge recently made a recommendation to the presiding Judge about how the case should proceed. Dave...
View Article#SDNY Judge Orders Jason Goodman to Produce Dirty Bomb Docs
Jason Goodman is now involved as Defendant in two lawsuits in the Southern District of New York. The Emmys are suing his company 21C3D for stealing their intellectual property for clicks and subs, with...
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