The Darkest Evil

I got a response from Jelsoft about a Cease and Desist order I sent them recently. Basically, if you don’t know the situation, people on vB.org are constantly abusing the feedback feature and posting libellous content about me and my business on vB.org. So, out of desperation, I wrote a Cease & Desist order to Jelsoft about the matter (hasn’t appeared on Chillingeffects.org yet) and Ashley Bubsy took the ticket. Anyway, I got a reply today stating ”
Bearing in mind that we do keep a close eye on these sorts of things and providing that they are in the rules, they are allowed. This enables others to provide their side of the story, without namecalling or posting personal data so that users can share their experiences. These threads are monitored and cleaned up if appropriate and the threads that you have highlighted are within these guidelines. As you have mentioned that we have received your final communication, please consider that matter concluded.”. (more…)

My image and name are copyrighted/trademarked for certain security reasons and personally. This is mainly to protect me if I try to apply for a job and a person Googles my name. I allow free usage of it under the following licence:

1. It is used alongside content that is not libellous, harmful, obscene, harassing, threatening or infringes on the property rights of others.
2. It is used with attribution to thedarkestevil.com
3. All other purposes must be preapproved by Kyle Korleski.

The reasoning behind this? Well, the reason is that I am new in Canada and I cannot have people soiling my record when my employer Googles my name. Now, Nicholi is a very gracious person but I can’t take any chances if people are going to abuse my image like this. Besides, what of Citizenship and Immigration Canada? What if a CIC visa officer abroad or in Canada came across libellous content that I did not write and assumed that I was somehow associated with it? That would probably raise a few questions to the visa officer and I would probably be asked to attend an interview at a consulate abroad.

Therefore, I decided to file for a trademark at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and I hold a copyright to my own name. I would highly recommend that any expatriate that is being harassed like I am to do the same. I am not liable for content that I do not write myself.

Edit: I edited the words to convey my true opinion

Why is this bad? Well, the Internet is a very social network and it was built to be decentralised and an open standard. However, this bill will make it more impossible to run a website with the truth. How so, you ask? Well, here are the reasons MY blog and site would be effected if Net Neutrality were to fail in the states.

1. I tell about my bad experiences of Charter Cable, AOL, Microsoft and all those mother fuckers so once Net Neutrality fails, they will have the power to block my content or make it slower.
2. Advertisements and advertising partners will make less payouts to webmasters and give the ISPs and Telcos more money to prioritise their advertisements. Content is king and it is the reason why the Internet is so successful. Would someone watch 30 minutes of television to see 29 minutes of advertisements as opposed to just 6 minutes of advertisements? Of course not! We would get out a bit more and enjoy life and do other things. And eventually, since we wouldn’t be able to see the benefit of having a “high-speed” internet connection, we’d cancel it in a heartbeat.
3. Do you really think we’d be able to use Instant Messengers from other ISPs? Like if I were using Yahoo!’s DSL programme in the states, do you think that I would be able to gain the same level of connectivity with MSN Messenger, ICQ and AOL IM that I would gain with Yahoo!? Of course not, because Yahoo! would love to try to drive people to help improve it’s market share.
4. Great sites like The Pirate Bay and Boxtorrents would drastically be reduced in popularity as we would probably have an even lower level connection to bittorrent.
5. Firefox is gaining considerable steam and market power. Now, if Net Neutrality fails, it may be that the only browser you will be able to use (if you use MSN or an ISP that works with MSN) is Internet Explorer. That sucks, doesn’t it?

So I approve of Net Neutrality.

Tommorrow night, I am pulling an all-nighter. Mainly because I want to be the first to get my domain back from 1&1. I swear, they wanted to put the 1 domain I truly wanted to keep in the Redemption Period.

Do you think what I am saying is just floatsam? Then just read other people’s opinion on this:

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