THE VIDEO SHELF · legal threats and scams
DEFCON 17: That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars
Jason Scott of textfiles.com tells the story at DEFCON 17 of being sued for two billion dollars by a scammer who plagued him and others for over a decade. The talk is tragic and funny, covering what he learned about misleading schemes.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as a great, hilarious talk about legal threats and cease and desist letters.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Christiaan008
- Topic
- legal threats and scams
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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If you don't know him already, textfiles has one of my favorite people on the internet (Jason Scott) running a lot of things, and hoarding interesting material for our future. As far as I can tell the dude just loves MS-DOS games and hence we …
hobs on Hacker News · 2015-01
In The MS-DOS ShowcaseThis guy has gotten cease and desist letters from catheter companies as well as been sued for two billion dollars. Watch his talk on the matter, it is really great - [VIDEO]
__z on Hacker News · 2015-05
In I Want Your AOL CDsFor a less-serious but similar situation, Jason Scott (textfiles.com, Internet Archive) gave a hilarious DEFCON talk called "That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars": [VIDEO]
Rendello on Hacker News · 2026-01
In Anna's Archive is sued for $13T
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