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bean-aid · 10-11-2011, 08:05 PM

This is a bitch thread. I see nothing coming out of this except to vent.

I developed a mainstream search function 3 years ago and is now making me good money. I did not copyright, patent or anything.

Now HUGE companies have both stolen my database results (site provided search results for a specific crowd) and copied the manner in which I originally did the programming.

I'm talking about companies with financial statements in the billions.

So basically, my current source of income will soon end... very similar to how tubes work these days I suppose.

I reached out to some attorneys and basically the mentality is... it will cost 100's of thousands of dollars in attorney fees to pay for suing a large company like that.

Some of you may remember me talking about how I trippled a sites profit. Well... I did more then that... I made it 6 times profit since handed to me in a settlement. So the site is making me over 100K per year and now I think it will evaporate.

So, any gfy lawyers on call to give me some good news? Something like... since you were the first to think of... and develop this idea... you have the rights to it. That would be nice. Oh... so how do I collect those rights?

10-11-2011, 08:05 PM
bean-aid So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: the land of woke sleuths Posts: 16,493	So the adult meets mainstream in content theft This is a bitch thread. I see nothing coming out of this except to vent. I developed a mainstream search function 3 years ago and is now making me good money. I did not copyright, patent or anything. Now HUGE companies have both stolen my database results (site provided search results for a specific crowd) and copied the manner in which I originally did the programming. I'm talking about companies with financial statements in the billions. So basically, my current source of income will soon end... very similar to how tubes work these days I suppose. I reached out to some attorneys and basically the mentality is... it will cost 100's of thousands of dollars in attorney fees to pay for suing a large company like that. Some of you may remember me talking about how I trippled a sites profit. Well... I did more then that... I made it 6 times profit since handed to me in a settlement. So the site is making me over 100K per year and now I think it will evaporate. So, any gfy lawyers on call to give me some good news? Something like... since you were the first to think of... and develop this idea... you have the rights to it. That would be nice. Oh... so how do I collect those rights?