Carl David Ceder in happier days
While the internet doesn’t forget, it does fade from memory. But that’s not enough for some sad young lawyers, whose butt is still sore from a well-deserved beating they endured as a result of getting caught doing nasty things. Carl David Ceder still felt the pain.
And worse still, he paid good money to J.C. Penney for his promotional headshot, having to endure the mommies and daddies and their little rug rats crying as they awaited their first picture to send to grandma. But Carl was stoic. He would gaze into the abyss and look lawyerish. No one could stop him from being the lawyer he pretended to be.
Then some mean, old lawyer from New York went and took his best baby lawyer promo pic and besmirched it. “This will not stand!”
So a DMCA takedown notice was sent. “Take it down, I command you!!!”
Mike Masnick at Techdirt, being a good journalist, reached out to Carl* for comment. It didn’t go well.
Oh, and finally, I emailed Ceder using the email address he included in the DMCA takedown notice which he said was there to email him if CloudFlare wanted “further information.” I asked him a few questions about the notice, but the email immediately bounced back, saying that it was an “alias” that was not found on Office365. But… then Carl emailed me back anyway (suggesting that the email does work, but he also tried to set up some sort of alias that failed), claiming he had no idea what I was talking about and didn’t even know what the DMCA was. This seems… difficult to believe. The DMCA notice appears to come from his email, and has his signature file as well. It links to a version of that JC Penney copyright authorization that was uploaded to a Scribd account today on an account named “CarlDavid Ceder.”
But Mike is a tenacious sort of guy, so he pushed for more.
I also called him (voicemail) and emailed again asking how, if this wasn’t him, someone else got their hands on this copyright authorization and is now going around pretending to be him and filing questionable DMCA notices on his behalf. In response, he did not answer this question, but again insisted that he has no idea what I’m talking about.
This would have sufficed to create plausible deniability, if only it was plausible. So Mike went back to the well, making unanswered calls, and finally another email asking for explanation. Carl finally replied:
In your post, did you mention any of the nice things I mentioned about Dan Hull and Brian Tannebaum? Or did you leave that out. I would like to talk to you in person – because you are being very unclear with your e-mail messages. If you are going to write something about this, I would appreciate you mentioning how, without any time to reflect on how to respond, my first reaction was how me and Dan Hull and have not only reconciled, but have put this matter way behind us. Brian Tannebaum was related to the matter that happened years ago – and I hope you mentioned how I spoke only positively about his new book, and also the e-book he wrote long ago about clients. As a reporter, I hope you did cover the whole truth and all the facts, including the ones mentioned above. I’m not exactly sure what you are accusing me of honestly, but what I do know is I was trying to communicate this matter was put behind me literally years ago. And based on what I said about Hull and Tannebaum, what motive would I have to do something that would bring to the forefront something that happened literally years ago. I still haven’t read your article, but I do hope if you did mention things from our correspondence, you reported the whole truth – and did not choose to selectively decide only to include things that would create better fodder for a story where there probably isn’t one. Also, I’m not sure if you are an attorney and just blog, but if you are in the legal field, you no doubt realize how time consuming a trial that I am about to begin in two days can consume almost all of your time. As I type this, I am going to interview a potential witness to fully prepare. You seemed to indicate that whatever was done was recent. Look up the Collin County court records and the name of the person I have a trial set for Wednesday. It’s a 2nd degree Felony charge with huge ramifications that hinge on the outcome. In your analysis, I hope you considered how unlikely it would be for an attorney to have time to do whatever it is you think was done. I spent almost all of Sunday (yesterday) at the Collin County jail prepping my client for testifying. This is also public record – check the Collin County jail list. You will see where I’ve spent my time the last 72 hours or so.
And because Mike would be loath to do less than report “the whole truth,” not to mention Carl’s email rant just continues the dive down the rabbit hole, who wouldn’t want to give Carl what he asks for.
So there’s that. Don’t let it be said that I didn’t give him a chance to present his side.
Did some mysterious person seize Carl’s email, cellphone number, signature, J.C. Penney license, Scribd account, and issue a DMCA notice, under penalty of perjury, in Carl’s name? Did Carl have the time in his very busy lawyer schedule to write this brilliantly exculpatory email to Mike, but not read Mike’s post?** Seems legit.
But assuming that Carl is not only a very fragile little boy, but one lacking in the intelligence and integrity to back down when he’s been caught, there is little to be done to help guide him out of the toilet of his web of absurdities. And as for his DMCA takedown notice, he might want to consider becoming good friends with 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), which can be found living next door to Barbra Streisand.
Carl: You keep doing this to yourself. While you’re well past the first rule of holes,*** it’s never too late to stop digging. And Carl, real lawyers know law. It’s kinda what we do.
*Uh oh. Such informality without invitation. I didn’t respect his lawyerly importance.
H/T Keith Lee for his mad gif skillz
**Carl also took to the twitters to defend himself in the wee hours of the morning.
***During Carl’s first foray into the cesspool, Mark Bennett tried to counsel him to raise his head above the water line. Not only did it not go well, but Carl chose to exact his revenge instead. Or maybe he didn’t and some mysterious person posted “Fake Mark Bennett” to Carl’s website while he was too busy being a Super-de-duper Lawyer. Carl never seems to be responsible for anything done in his name. But still seems legit.
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It’s a good thing CDC is not an automobile mechanic; beeecause, if he were, the car would never get fixed. A year and a half later, he blames it on the assistant mechanic.
Comments on TechDirt are hilarious. This car is never going to get fixed,… I mean, this cad. He will get dis-barred before the movie ends.
A DMCA takedown notice for simplejustice.us?
Yeah, I think I’ll try that next time in lieu of pissing in the wind.
Remind me… Is this the guy that told you to bring a first aid kit?
Several first aid kits: As many as could be mustered and carried! Splints, bandages, ointments and medical tape,… the whole nine yards.
But are you checking out the Collin County jail list? It’s a public record, you know.
That was for Mike to do. I’m sure he’ll be on it any minute now.
No need to post this comment. However, it appears that the last quotation of Masnick didn’t get marked as such: “So there’s that. Don’t let it be said that I didn’t give him a chance to present his side.” Govern yourself accordingly.
Consider me governed. And fixed.
Am I the only one who thinks Carl has outsourced all communication to a 3rd party In India?
Yeah. It’s obviously Bangladesh.
Duh.
Oh boy…this guy again? This should be entertaining…The last time the comments were pure gold.
I’m going to need more popcorn.
(If I might just say, watching lawyers take apart another lawyer is extremely entertaining, especially when the one being taken apart walks into it blindly and voluntarily.)
…And repeatedly
If I might just say, watching lawyers take apart another lawyer is extremely entertaining, especially when the one being taken apart walks into it blindly and voluntarily.
Personally, I would rather not see lawyers do dumb things to begin with, because when they do it often injures clients and tarnishes the profession. I can find entertainment elsewhere.
Well done Scott. DMCA takedown notice strategy = real strange. Am having trouble getting past that. CDC went to a real law school and all. Put another way, how could TD’s post yesterday & your post today not have happened? Dang.
You may have to reassess what constitutes a real law school under the circumstances, because he is one clueless dipshit.
So when are the two of you having a sleepover party? You know, do each other’s hair. Paint each other’s nails. Talk about your aspirations for sex some day? He really likes you.
3 things:
1. I overestimate people. I can be slow. He might like that.
2. He likes, Bennett, too. And Mark’s still straight.
3. I’m still straight, too. But I’m “willing to learn.”
Based on some of Carl’s other portraits and his aggressive responses, he may have a “roid rage” issue.
SHG Peeper? Uh, no. Never again. And it’s none of my business if he has hemorrhoids. Oh wait.
Rule 9 of Mark Bennett online first aid kit needs a subsection A: “Do Not Declare War. And do not conduct covert operations against Scott Greenfield; he will interpret this as declaring war and act accordingly.”
Take a look at his ratings on Google Maps – a very solid 4.8 with every rating done 7 months ago and every rater taking only the time only to rate CDC. The writing ‘style’ seems familiar as well…
https://twitter.com/ScottGreenfield/status/752808162223415296
I’m going to help you out, Carl, since you obviously think you’ve got the goods on me.
What Masnick tried to explain to you, and what makes every laugh at you, is that you’re the only one who doesn’t get the joke. But since you demand your right to be the perpetual asshole, I’m here to help. You’re welcome.
Leave the Lone Star kid alone. Can’t you *feel* how lonely he is? It gets lonely when you’re bumping along the bottom and all your friends and associates makes themselves scarce. The girls won’t go out with you. That’s it! The girls won’t go out with him. Everything else is noise. Will someone please get him a date?
What makes you assume he likes girls? You are so cis-heteronormative.
Roger that, but we don’t tell too many folks!
At least he’s not fragile.
He’s a manly man.
What is this latest rant he’s on about a SEO solicitation email from Slap-Up-Media.net on 2/7/2014 that he states was sent out on behalf of SimpleJustice.US to write an article and link?
He apparently thinks this proves I pay for an SEO company to do my bidding.
Did Slap-Up-Media solicit him without any kind of actual relationship to SimpleJustice.US ?
I don’t know Slap-Up-Media so I was just curious if they are one of those companies that does those spammy marketing solicitations to lawyers while implying they have a relationship with the other party when they don’t.
From my side, I have nothing to do with them and never heard of them (though it’s always possible that they’ve sent me spam, as I get tons of solicitations which I immediately delete). I checked old mail and found nothing from them. As for what scam SpamalotMedia was trying to pull, beats me.
By the way, use the reply button rather than start a new thread.
It’s offering sponsored content “for” simplejustice. In the cant of the trade, they’re offering something valuable. My guess is that some marketing moron typed in simplejustice rather than the name of Carl’s blog.
By the way, can anyone point to any evidence that Carl has ever had an original thought?
I see so many variations on a theme in the spam that I hesitate to explain any of it. Most of it is done by program, scrape and spam, and programs have no purpose beyond completing their code. Carl has no grasp of any of this, so makes bizarrely wrong assumptions that serve his purposes as the clueless tend to do.