| [News] Nova Design Obtains a Judgement of $270,000 against Ryan E. A. Czerwinski | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 13-Oct-2003 06:03 GMT by Rich Woods | 108 comments
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After quite some time the court case of Nova Design vs. Ryan E.
A. Czerwinski has been concluded with a default judgement.
Nova Design has obtained a judgement of $270,000 against Ryan E. A. Czerwinski.
After quite some time the court case of Nova Design vs. Ryan E. A. Czerwinski has been concluded with a default judgement.
Nova Design has obtained a judgement of $270,000 against Ryan E. A. Czerwinski.
The judgement with interest and costs are now approx. $335,000+.
Court documentation can be found at
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| Nova Design Obtains a Judgement of $270,000 against Ryan E. A. Czerwinski : Comment 19 of 108 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Rich Woods on 13-Oct-2003 06:36 GMT | In reply to Comment 18 (T_Bone):
Posted by T_Bone (24.241.148.80) on 13-Oct-2003 08:25:35
In Reply to Comment 17:
Bill insinuated he knew who stole the german inventory, did he mean Ryan all along? Supposedly Ryan "confiscated" the german inventory because Amiga never paid back the loan?
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Bill DIDN'T insinuate anything - here is his quote - he was quite DEFINATE in his choice of words......
Speech at AmiWest - July
And now we've got some other issues. And I'm gonna bring them up to all
you guys to let you know there's a change happening in Amiga. Amiga is
being ripped off. It has been ripped off since before I got here and
during the time. We have people who have stolen our Intellectual Property,
we have people who write us very large checks that are no good, we have
people who publicly go out and lie about us, and we've been very patient,
we've sat back, we've allowed them to say what they wanna say without
rebuttal, you haven't seen us out there, on the web boards and message
boards saying things. We have a situation creating an Amiga museum, with a
lot of hardware that was ours that we owned that was in Germany. We went
to go get it. The warehouse was empty. Pallets and pallets of our product
had been stolen. Now, we know who has it, we're not gonna... that's...
we're not here to point fingers or names or let people know, we even know
where it is. We also know this other group that's gonna make an
announcement they're making a museum, Well, guess what, that's our stuff.
We paid for it. We paid millions of dollars for this. And while we sat
back, we tried to be the nice guy and tried to work through these issues,
we have product... we have people out there right now using our
trademarks, using our boing ball, using the Amiga name without authority,
and again, we've been the nice guys. We look at them, say "hey, please
stop", "please stop", "hey, we asked you nicely, stop!" Well, guess what,
I'm tired of it. I know you're tired of it because you guys send me
e-mails. I get a counselling from you guys saying "did you see this, did
you see that?", and we send them a very nice note. Well, notice is now
given. Making it very clear, as of September 1st, 2002, that's your
decision day, you either get legal or we will shut you down. Nobody is
gonna steal from us any further. We have out there people using our source
code, illegally, and that steals from everything we're trying to do.
People have got our hardware, that's gonna stop. The lawyers are lined up,
they're fully paid, and they're waiting. So this is public notice, we're
not gonna say who these people are, there's software out there right now
that is illegal. People have paid for software that is illegal. We're not
gonna come after any one of you, this is not your problem, it's our
problem, and now I have taken it extremely personally. So when you see
people out there saying things on message boards that are lies, I'm coming
after them. I'm sick of it. I haven't spent two years of my life, and all
the money I've ever had, to sit here and deal with these... this nonsense.
They have people stand publicly and... and blaspheme one and other out
there, only catch us in the middle, never again folks. So if you're one of
these people, you'd better have a signed contract that's legal with us,
because as of September 1st you will be served. And we're not serving fun
here, we will shut you down. I will shut down your company. Because
you've violated our IP, you have harmed Amiga, and you've done nothing but
screw with every person in this room by lying. So I'm making it clear...
I hope... Does anyone not understand what I just said? How many people
understand what I just said? [faint applause] OK, it's time to get...
It's time to get ugly. I was just meeting with a friend of ours in the
military, he says "so what you're saying is 'take no prisoners'?" I said
"yeah, this is gonna be war done". Because there... Enough of this, we're
done.
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When he mentioned the case that was not able to be opend Ryan shoouted "The key was in the case" - this can be clearly heard on the tape I have of the speech.
Somebody *HAS* to write a book. Makes "Pirates of Silicon Valley" look absolutely DULL by comparison.
One reason why The World of Merlancia, LLC is incorporated here in AZ. |
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