__zMay 2015Strongly recommends
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
in “I Want Your AOL CDs” · View on HN
DEFCON 17: That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars
DEFCON 17: That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2015–2026.
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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.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters recommend it as a great, hilarious talk about legal threats and cease and desist letters.
- people recommended it
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- 2015–2026
“Watch his talk on the matter, it is really great”
What HN commenters said
5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
hobsJan 2015Strongly recommends
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
in “The MS-DOS Showcase” · View on HN
RendelloJan 2026Recommends
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
in “Anna's Archive is sued for $13T” · View on HN
reitzensteinmApr 2020Cites it
The owner of the site gave a talk at DEFCON 17, "That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars" ▶ this video
in “textfiles.com” · View on HN
mhh__Sep 2021Critical
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.
in “UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy” · View on HN
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