Re: Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)

Bob Purvy via Internet-history <[email protected]>
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with regard to NYT paywalls: until very recently you could plug the URL
into archive.ph and it was already there.

Now WSJ and NYT are wise to that dodge. As far as I know.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 2:17 PM Greg Skinner via Internet-history <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Apr 28, 2026, at 1:24 PM, John R. Levine via Internet-history <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Being an expert witness, though: THAT pays good bucks. At the Apple v.
> >> Samsung trial, one witness testified that he got $850 an hour, and he
> put
> >> in 900 hours on the case.
> >
> > I suspect many if not most of the people on this list have gotten on the
> patent expert witness gravy train.  I've been in probably a dozen cases on
> the defense side against patents that were garbage, and one on the
> plaintiff side against Microsoft for a patent that was pretty good.
> >
> > I should definitely increase my rate, though.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies",
> > Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail.
> https://jl.ly
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> Reminds me of a statement made by Geoff Goodfellow about the changing
> nature of Silicon Valley tech businesses with regards to patents.  The full
> article is behind a NYT wall, but some of it is available (at the time I am
> writing) in Geoff Goodfellow Explained <
> https://everything.explained.today/Geoff_Goodfellow/#google_vignette>.
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