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		devy on July 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win Erich Spangenberg is America's most notorious patent troll mafia head. I blames him for taking full advantage of the broken U.S. patent system to squeeze upward of $30 billion each year and the tremendous waste of use our legal system resources. EFF[1] and NYT[2] ran full reports on him previously. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/times-profiles-patent-... [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/business/has-patent-will-s...

sliverstorm on July 29, 2015 [–]

There's parasites in nature, no reason to think there wouldn't be parasites in human society...

harry8 on July 30, 2015 | [–]

What do we do with parasites when they attack us? That.

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