Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you how you can implement function overriding in C++. Before starting, you can note my information. You can follow my YouTube channel that is sanjaygupta underscore tag school. You can download my Android app that is tag image available on Google Play. Now coming on to the topic, I am going to implement function overriding concept in C++ in this video. So first I am including a header file that is IO stream, then I am using a namespace that is STD. Now I am implementing a class A. Here an attribute is available that is X. Then in public section, I am implementing first function that is read. It will display a message on console that is enter a value that value will be received by X using scene statement. Then I am implementing show function which will display value of X on console. So this is first class that is A. Now I am implementing another class that is B which is inheriting class A. So whenever I am implementing a methods of class B, so class A members are already available inside class B. Now if I implement methods with same name in class B, then the concept of function overriding will be available here. So first I am declaring a variable int y. Then in public section I am implementing read function. It will display a message enter a value and it will receive value inside y variable. And I am implementing again show method which will display value of y on console. So this way I have implemented two classes class A and class B. You can see both the classes are having same method declaration that is void read and void show. So if we recall the concept of function overloading. Function overloading says that we can implement functions with same name in a single class but they must have different type of or different number of arguments. But in case of inheritance it might be possible that in both the classes functions will share same name and with same number of arguments. Like in this example you can see void read and zero arguments void read and zero arguments are available in both the classes that is class A and B. And void show function is also available in both the classes having same name and same number of arguments. So if I inherit a members of class A into class B, then class B will be containing functions with same name and same number of arguments. But this is done coincidentally. I have not implemented this knowingly because it might be possible that one programmer is implementing class A and another programmer is implementing class B. And they both are implementing functions with same name and same number of arguments. And if you apply inheritance between those two classes, then the case might be possible that derived classes having functions with same name and same number of arguments. So to protect this situation C++ provides a powerful feature that is function overriding. It says that derived class can have functions with functions with same name and same number of arguments but these functions will be available in base and derived classes separately. So here you can see I have implemented this concept now in main function I am going to create object of B class. Now I am calling read function and I am calling print sorry show function. So object of B class is created which is calling read and show function and as I have explained earlier derived class that is B class is having two definitions of read and two definitions of show one from base class and one from derived class. But first priority will be given to the functions of derived class because object of derived class is created. So this way function overriding is implemented which says that derived class can contain functions with same name and same number of arguments but one should be available in base class and another should be available in derived class. So now I am executing this code. So here read function of derived class and show function of derived class will be executed as you can see here it is asking for a value I have entered five and it is displaying y equals to five and why is the attribute of derived class. So this way function overriding is applicable in C plus plus. You can implement functions with same name and same parameter in two different classes and you can apply inheritance between them. So function overriding is applicable only in the case of inheritance. If you are not implementing inheritance and you are implementing separate classes then the concept of function overriding is not applicable. I hope you have understood the concept well. If you want to watch more programming related videos you can follow my YouTube channel that is Sanjay Gupta underscore Tech School. Thank you for watching this video.


This is not about textfiles.com at all. So, sorry. This is actually about a second site that I put up for fun, which resulted in a lawsuit against me. And this is mostly a discussion, a narrative, a story about my personal experience about it, possibly with the idea of you guys getting some, I don't know, some advice. I do wanna know, who here has been sued? Have you guys sued by a corporation or an individual? Corporation. And you and the both. Traffic problem, huh? Okay, well anyway, so I do wanna actually forward this with since it's being recorded with a disclaimer. I am not a lawyer. I once dated a legal secretary. The relationship didn't work out. So, what you're hearing may or may not be real or not. I may have forgotten events. It was a very traumatic experience, so I may be kinda glossing things over. And I don't want anyone to think that this is an exact photographic documentary of what happened. The site that this is about is still up and will eventually have all of the really funny legal stuff that happened with it. So, the site that I ran was called harvardnetsucks.com. This, about a couple years ago, I was looking for a job while still having one. And I saw this place called harvardnet, a headhunter found for me and said, hey, good company, good people. Looks like it's gonna go IPO. You might be able to make some bucks, exciting and everything else. So, I said that's great, got interviewed, got a job, UNIX guy, and I went to go work there. And I was there for about a year. Ended up going back to my old place. During that year, it was just like any other place. It had its triumphs, it had its sadness. There was a guy I hated, because he did this wrong. And there was this person who impressed me, who had been there forever. And all the usual ups and downs of a company. This wasn't some little short one week thing that I was there. I was there for a year, and I made friends, and I made enemies, and it was a generally good life. Towards the end, things stopped being very enjoyable. So, after a while, you start to get that great bunker mentality where it's just, yep, our company is doing it, so it must really be bad. After a while, you've built up this negative thing, and you gotta say to yourself, am I here just because I'm being paid, or do I wanna go look somewhere else?  So, I finally said that I was leaving. There were tears all around, and sadness, and everyone else, and it was horrible. And so, I left under a less than bright cloud. I actually left, are you just coming up to touch me?  I left under a less than beautiful white cloud. Basically, one of the reasons I left was because there was a guy I hated. And I forwarded a letter. This actually does have some relevance to the legal case. Basically, I was asked to impart information to his team, and the letter included in the letter his letter to my manager, in which he claimed that I had done nothing, that I was a complete incompetent, that in other words, the letter I shouldn't have seen. I would have done the thing. So, I started to write a letter back to my manager, in which I said, you know, that's just not true. I've been doing my best, and you know, and the company, when I think of the company, I get so angry, because we could have done this, and we could, and so I'm basically doing the beginning of Jerry McGuire. I've got this whole thing where I'm just writing this paragraph after paragraph, and I'm like, you know, this isn't good enough for my manager. The whole company needs to share this experience.    I'm like, isn't that a great letter? It was a great letter, wasn't it? I was sure I was going to get in trouble for it, and he's like, well, you kind of did.  We're just going to ask you not to show up for your last week. So, I said, okay, you know, they're getting paid for it, called up my other company, said, I can start early.  So, I was getting two paychecks while sitting at home. So, that definitely took the edge off the experience. And, you know, I got to do the high fives on the way out and all the things anyway. So, that was that. And I left that, and I was like, well, that wasn't a very, that wasn't great. That wasn't a great experience. My feelings on it were actually somewhat neutral. I had some anger, but I wasn't really crushed, as you might say.  And, the guy who I didn't like, I did some research into, group of us actually, did a research into hiring one of those planes that has the banner that it drags behind it. So, that one lunch hour, it would just say, Andrea sucks on this banner going over the company. And then just make a few key phone calls in various departments, say, look out your window. We didn't go with that, and we all laughed about it. It's $1,500, and I can tell you the guy who does it. And he is a great guy. He's like the one guy who does those, and he said to me, why don't you find out where he lives so we can fly over his house after we're finished with his work? So, I think he would definitely be open to anything that you guys might want to suggest.  And he was like, we're the guys who flew condoms over Long Island. Anyway, so this group of friends of mine, and I were all, you know, kind of bitter having our little melon list, and yada, yada, yada. And I was like, I'm kind of a domain pig. I kind of like to buy domains just for fun.  And I checked, and harvardnetsucks.com was open. And to give you an idea of how completely non anything I was with this, I didn't even buy it then. I kind of said, hey guys, it's open. Wouldn't it be funny? Didn't do anything with it. Couple weeks later, people like, you know, it'd be kind of funny if you got it. And I'd go like, yeah, if you all put money in for it, I'll post it, I'll give you a mail forwarding. You can be the CEO at Harvard Netsucks. And so they each did that, they each gave me like 10 bucks or something. And I went off and registered Harvard Netsucks, set up a mail forwarder, ooh, I'm a protester. I kind of left it like that for a while, you know, about a month. I was like, well, that was fun. And I thought, you know, I'd hear things going on at the company, that kind of sucks there still and they're still doing this, and wouldn't it be kind of fun to put up a site? I had already registered Harvard Netsucks under the company's own address and name. So there was already some sort of a, you know, you have this initial defense thing. I do want to mention that to people, you know, yeah. When you make an action like that, when you do things like you register with something or you do something, I mean, this sounds blatantly obvious, but you would be surprised about, if you're going to register a domain that makes horrendous fun of someone, don't give them your home name and address. Don't do that. So I had it under their name, the building department was incorrect billing at their place and it was a little protest all there. I also registered not with network solutions, I registered with Easy DNS up in Toronto and I'll explain why I like them so much. They're a very fun little place up there. They're related with two cows and they let you administer your DNS remotely and they run it and they have their own anyway, if you like that kind of thing.  Now technically I did have spies everywhere because you know, people would call but the site was a little harsh unpleasant, they'll see me refer to my notes occasionally because I just want to make sure I'm mentioning everything. I kind of made fun of the people who had been problems and I hinted that there were things were not quite right there and I got a really nice coup the second day. I got a letter from the founder of Harvard Net who had been driven out a number of years earlier in which he apologized to everyone currently at Harvard Net and how much the company now sucked. I think that's what initially got their attention because remember this was a pre-OPO company so you know, very unpleasant. And I got the other founder of Harvard Net who mailed the next day going hey, he mailed in. Yeah, I too agree, it really bites there.  I was getting an awful lot of hits from Harvard Net. I run a logs and web Eliza, you know if web Eliza right? Everyone here by the way, this is vital. Does everyone here know what a firewall is? Okay good, I don't want to lose you. I got a lot of hits from some site and I want to be a bastard and say the name again but I forgot it but it was something, you know, wall, keeper, blah, something.harvard.net. Hundreds of hits from that, nothing else at Harvard Net.  So I put up a little thing that looks like they're blocking me at their firewall. What are you afraid of?   So I was getting quite a bit of hate, not at me of course but a lot of hate at people, you know, like you're right I'm glad someone stood up and spoke for us because in every company like this people come and go and they just take their little pain and move on and that's the end of it and now these people are like hey someone's getting pissed mob and basically they were starting to look at me as some sort of an interesting figure someone they could go, you, my handle was broken promises at harvardnetsucks.com.  Doesn't know who it is, just going nuts. He's accusing his head of engineering of like you must be it, you're him, you're him.  So like on Friday, so on Friday I ended up calling him. We're talking five days, Friday I call him up. He never answers his phone, you know.  So as you can see I was flying high and he picked up the phone next call and he was like, Jason, you have to speak to my lawyer. I was like. Most people when they're used to the, what they think of now is the current process of the law is you put up heinous thing that's really bad. Company that you did this to sends thing that says please stop it, we're really angry.  But that's not how it was. I was invited to a nice party of some of the ex-arbor and employees and I'm already making connections, I'm making friends now that next Tuesday. Hey, come on down, I'll have some food, it'll be great, you'll love it. So I'm there. While I'm there I get a call from my girlfriend who is not in the best emotional shape. Letting me know that a man has come to the house with a pack of papers from a law firm and made her sign it and gone away. And by the way the guys who, there are guys whose job is to deliver that stuff who aren't really affiliated with anything. They're just like guys willing to get screamed at in the face for however many bucks. But they are neither aware of your case, cognizant of you or anything else. They don't even care, I mean I'm the guy mentioned on it, the girlfriend signed for it, good enough for Bobo he was gone. And we're at the thing, we're at the party, she's not gonna open it, she wants me to read it and we're all like ha ha, cease and desist, got the fuckers running. So I get home and that's not exactly the case. That's not exactly the case. The exact letter that was waiting for me. You are hereby summoned to require to serve a Clinton's attorney in answer to a complaint which is herewith served upon you in 20 days. If you fail to do so, judgment by default we take it against you and I'm looking at it like that doesn't sound like a cease and desist letter. We also notify you that application has been made in said action as appears in complaint for a preliminary injunction. They got what's called an ex parte restraining order against me. In the meantime, until such hearing, we command you said Jason Scott and your agent's attorneys and councillors and each and every one of them to desist and refrain from using or making any further disclosures of any Harvard net proprietary information in a form substantially similar to the order attached as exhibit one. Ugh. Now, the exhibit one was an actual court ordered restraining order. It's what's called an ex parte restraining order which I did not understand at the time. I'll jump out of sequence. My lawyer explained to me what this is.    The man says, what does he have to say about this? Let's bring him in and have a chat. So, he sends a notice to wife beater and says, please come to the courthouse in a week where we will see if you should have a restraining order. But knowing you, you're at the bar drinking Jagermeister and you will not show up and it will be given to you in your absence. That's usually how restraining orders work. There's a notification to the two parties like, we'd like to do a restraining order party. Come on down.  And next part to your restraining order is the guy beats up the girl really well.  So they say, fine. The restraining order is now down now and in a week he gets to fight it. Very special case. They got it for me. For what? That's the question. Of all the horrifying things I had said that week, what thing was it that was so horrible? What had I done? What were they gonna sue me for? How much? And when I started to read through the actual lawsuit, I started to, you know, the actual thing which I started to read and sweat a little more and more. They were suing me for $120,000. They were suing me for violating my employee non-disclosure agreement and printing information of a proprietary nature such that could bring down Harvard Nets network, expose their company secrets, trade information, financial information to the internet at large, make them a guided target for hackers in quotes and generally destroy them.  I'm a newsletter for God's sake. Well, it turned out I had published the firewall name and their indication was by printing the firewall name, I had breached the security of Harvard Net and revealed to everyone how to get in.  Dude, doesn't he understand? It's a firewall. No, he does not understand. He doesn't understand at all. He's near retirement in my case.  He's got a nephew probably tells him that computers are fun.  The hard part is how do you tell a 64 year old judge that a firewall host name is perfectly okay to know about because it's not gonna breach the security and then you go into what, network maps? Here's my problem. So now I'm in a panic. I'm in an absolute panic. I don't have a lawyer that was probably the roughest night I've had in recent memory that didn't include kidney stones. I was just wrecked. I mean, you know, $120,000 was way more than they had paid me even in a year. The number, by the way, if in case you're wondering where it's $120,000, it cost them $60,000 to set up the firewall and purchase the software and the hardware and they were doubling it. The theory being that by publishing the host name, you know, I don't know, the firewall turned into a Sega Genesis and that was the end of that. Sonic going, come on in, we're open. So that was, I guess, the theoretical concept. So I had to find a lawyer. Now I'm going to say something which takes a little bit of the edge off my experience or you might think so. I had an individual who I will not name who mailed me and said, and this, this is like having a close to religious experience as one can have, I suppose.  Yeah, that was, he's a very pleasant fellow. That took a little bit of the edge off, obviously. So, you know, I could fight this. Now most people would go, ah, and you know, now what do you do? And I don't know, there aren't as many, well there's a good number of youth here.    And the older ones are like, I must settle immediately.  You know, so you have different opinions. Mine was, I must fight this. I am right, I'm completely right. So, a week had gone by. The hearing was in a week after that. Now, normally in the hearing, we might go, fine, you're right, whatever, we're not going to fight this.  But we didn't want to do that. I was given a lawyer. She's a very nice lady. Her name is Lucy Loverian and I will plug her because she was very good for my purposes and she, you know, she was very communicative, she was friendly, she thought about the stuff she wanted to learn. She knew nothing about networks, period. And initially, you'd think, you know, that's really bad. But actually, it's one thing when you have like slick hacker lawyer, a horrifying mutant that I will hope I never meet. The hacker lawyer. We have no vaccine. The, but you know, you'd have a slick back.  I mean, look at this, it's a firewall host name.  She was like, what is this thing? Tell me what it is. What is it like? What is it for? How does it work? Where are the problems?  So I met with her and she immediately said, we have to get affidavits. We have to find people who will say that this is not a big deal. We have to get people to show that you couldn't have known this information.  And we will present all these on that day in a week where we will make this happen.  Their lawyer was Hale and Doar. Does anyone know Hale and Doar? No, one day you will. Hale and Doar are, no, they're not the McDonald's of law because that would probably be that Jacobian Myers thing. They're not the McDonald's of law. They're like the old style, no, they're the Microsoft of law. They really are.  They have, they were Nixon's lawyers. No, no, no, it's okay, he's erasing everything, those guys.  They have hundreds, hundreds of lawyers. They have powerful lawyers.  I love them. I must repeat my disclaimer now. Anyway, so basically, the Hale and Doar people said several things in their letter. Now, if I'm worried about my heart rate, if I need my exercise back up, I just go back and read anything they wrote. You know, you know, Mr. Scott was privy to every machine name, password, application, network, that I was a UNIX guy.  And, you know, this wasn't just simply not the case. For instance, the host name of the firewall had not been set till a month and a half after I'd left. Little things like that that just didn't quite work out that we had to put into the affidavit. We got a firewall guy to go, you know, it takes 20 minutes, let's say an hour, to set the new IP address for the firewall. And it will cost, if I charge $300 an hour, so it's not a $60,000 process. You know, and so on, all these things. And my boss, and this is something, my old boss, who was not privy to my being dismissed by the way, the manager over my boss dismissed me. He wasn't even in the office that day. He came in to find out he was down a guy. That's how connected he felt by the end. He submitted an affidavit. Now he is working for the company, and he submitted an affidavit going, the company is lying to you. The company is not telling the truth. They are attempting to screw him. It is not true. He wasn't really feeling all that secure anyway. But the thing about that little action though was the next day, well, okay, let's say at the hearing, when the hearing finally showed up, I didn't actually testify. When you're at a hearing like this, your lawyer generally does all the talking for you.  I actually sat out in the audience.  And you had this guy, Daniel W. Hulston, the Esquire, who was their guy with his little toadie, Jeffrey, who, because one of the things they do is they have Primo lawyer and they have, lawyer, the little dog in a hack basically, who kinda follows them and can be there if there's a problem. It cost them, I think we were, we estimate it cost them $45,000 to have these two guys in the courtroom for four hours, including waiting time, and set things up. Enormous amount of money on their case. To do this, to get me. Things came out, my ISP called me and, hey, I heard you're having some legal trouble. Turned out they had called him the day before they filed the lawsuit to tell him to shut my machine off. Trading in on the fact the CEO had worked with the guy, had been an old business partner with him and said, hey, my old buddy, look, he just kinda shut this machine off, it's in your machine room. Which, by the way, is unbelievably illegal in Massachusetts. It's called restriction of someone's trade or something. It's actually, if you're in a case like this, have your lawyer look, everything that they did, because this came out of nowhere, that was gonna be one of our things.  He'd forgotten, oh, my old buddy. Yeah, the one who desperately needed bandwidth at one point and I wouldn't even return his phone calls. And he went off and got his business up running anyway. So basically, that came out that they were doing that. I called up my easy DNS people because one of the things they said that I owned, harvardnetsucks.com, harvardnetsucks.org and harvardnetsucks.net, other people owned it. They had gone, it looks like a lot of fun to do.  And easy DNS said, you know, some guys called up wondering about your address. I was like, really? What'd you tell them?  And I said, oh, and I said, hey, could you put that in the letter for me?   You show up in Canada with something, we'll talk to you. He's like, oh, we're not talking to nobody, nothing, nowhere about anything. I like that attitude. So easydns.com, very nice guys. I started to notice that I was getting a lot of hits to my site. One important thing was I did not shut down my site. I did not stop printing information. I did not stop putting things up.  And I was just not gonna have that. I started to put up really funny pictures. I found anytime someone said anything bad about them and put it up, I was a muck raker. And a muck raker can be a really fun thing. It's the thing that most companies are really scared of because muck rakers find all the, most companies, oh, I'm getting trouble for this, one or two companies. You always have skeletons in their closet because it is almost impossible to do business in America without doing something illegal. There is always something where you're supposed to sign this, do this, you're supposed to talk to this guy, you're supposed to open this up to the public, you're supposed to do this and you didn't because you had to get it in and Murphy got his $15,000 bonus and he all screwed it.    I'm gonna go find out, I'm gonna print it. That was probably, that probably didn't actually enthuse them all that much. So I found out looking at my logs, I started to take a real interest in my logs, that there were a lot of connections from a machine that came in twice a day whose browser was listed as Mozilla Halendor. Fuckers had put it in their browser tag.   Believe it or not, they submitted a second order. I'm still not even off that first week, although it is a pretty tough week. Just before they submitted a second order because I had put up a thing going, we are being sued, everything must go. And I put the domain name up on eBay at like, with like a $300,000 secret minimum thing. So it was like, it was a joke, but it was just to prove a point, ha, ha. And hey, $300,000, I can do some with that.   You know, so we've got to make money for these bastards who are suing us. And they submitted that in a court order and said, as is proven here, Mr. Scott has no known assets.  That's what I knew. I had to make them stop browsing my site. So, you know, there's this great thing and I started doing a lot of research. I knew this had to be possible in Apache. You can do things based on what comes to you. In other words, like you can go, oh, this, how do I say it? You know, like this IP address is coming in so give him this kind of page or if someone connects with this referer, send them to this page and so on and so on. If anyone from Hail and Door browsed in, I'd send them to the ACLU. No, they come in, ACLU page. The hits stopped after a while. They'd kind of come back like once a month or something just to check. That's how I knew when the checks had stopped coming to them because I could see when it, you know, they stopped even trying. But that kind of stopped them for a while and I was almost proud of myself. Their humorlessness is unbelievable but you know, that's the thing you have to realize is that the minuté of hackerdom is very actually similar to the minuté of lawyerdom and lawyers have these funny little things they do. For instance, my lawyer would give the other guys my entire defense an hour and a half before the court case. This was something that was done and they did the same. They're like, here's your defense.  He would just go, based on what I just read. For instance, we had said, just as a small example, I don't want to get too much into the minuté of that because it's just typical, just, you know, minds bigger. And one of the things that we said was, was, you know, the non-disclosure agreement doesn't cover the firewall host name because it's public information. And they said, Mr. Scott does not dispute the legality and validity of our non-disclosure agreement. Well, yes, technically that's true. Your non-relevant document is probably really sound.  You want to scream that from the back and you can't. So we had our hearing.  And this guy, the judge, Judge Julian was just, he was an older gentleman, he was nearing retirement. This was the last thing he went on his plate.  What sort of site is this? And he actually even got a little, like, ringer off at one point.  And he's like, I'm well aware of First Amendment defenses. Anyway, he, I'm well aware of the First Amendment. The, in the case, he took all of our stuff and it's not like TV, they don't just go, thanks, Matlock, here's my slam credits. No, it's not like that. They said, we'll take this under consideration, you'll get the decision in the mail. At which point, it will happen at some point. So I was in a twilight zone for about a month. The next day, fucked company, took a very big interest in this because my boss, my ex-boss had done this and Pudd thought this was the greatest thing in the world.  Well, that explains the 15,000 different sites that came to me the next day.  They, you know, everybody was in on this. Now, I was getting contacts from the Boston, Boston, Boston Herald wanted to talk to me. I got other people who wanted to like go, hey, you know, I can't believe this. I haven't worked that company year. They're still fuckers.  I became this, you know, broken promises. And I had set it up so that all mail addresses came to me. So of course, every time I published a story, I'd give a different email address.     So for that three weeks, I was kind of publishing things kind of in this, you know, just basically floating, waiting for the decision. Will I get the decision? Will they deny it? Now, keep in mind, this is not the trial. This is just my response to them trying to get a temporary restraining order against me for publishing the host name before they sue me for $120,000. So we're already like nine grand in the hole. Just doing that. Just saying, no, chitching.  He better be a lawyer or sleeping with one because he, it's gonna cost him a lot of money. Now there are a breed of lawyers who will make a deal, a very interesting deal. I will do your case for free and take half of what you win. Get away from those guys.  They're not gonna give up and they're gonna come up with everything, but most times when you go to a lawyer, a lawyer will go, I don't even think you should be taking this case on.  Well, our guy, Harvard Net was funded by Fidelity Investments and Fidelity Investments doesn't care about money. I mean, other than that's coming in a lot. But they weren't really all hurt by 45 grand, it's just retainer. It's like, go ahead, whatever you gotta do, make it happen, I don't care. So there was a lot of money behind it.  But then the interview started. I got into an interview with Tom Kerchoffer at the Boston Herald. I actually had my lawyer in the office. I was submitting stories, but each time I submitted a story, I submitted it to my lawyer. My lawyer would look at it and go, yeah, you probably won't get sued, sorry, it doesn't look all that actionable. And then, up it would go. So I'm funny after it goes through my team of lawyer. And she also became our legal staff, by the way. So gotta keep that up. And so those three weeks were pretty unpleasant.   They're probably gonna come to, if they're pulling strings that fast, they probably wanna talk to you and you're gonna talk to them. So you can't let yourself just put your life into a parking brake and just hope and go, oh, life is horrible. Cause you just, it's, they're winning.  They're actually killing you. One piece of advice I have just don't do that. Don't fall into that trap of letting them crush you like that. The actual hearing that I'm talking about sorry, lost my, completely lost my train of thought. Basically three weeks later, he came back with a response, the judge in which he said, they are completely denied. Basically he looked at all the stuff we'd written. He said, you're right.  You shouldn't have a restraining order against you. So I'd won. And everyone, everyone who looked at it right, they were like, you won. I'm like, yes. In the process of falling off a cliff, I was able to pull up my pants so I had some dignity.   So we're not going to do that. It actually had, I remember this now, it had the brand name of the firewall product as the host name.  Anyway, he kind of blocked those little dumb details out. One other thing, they fired my ex-boss two days later. So basically they brought him into a little room and said, what did you do?  I am getting phone calls and emails from people that's going, here's what they're doing today. Here's what they're up to, here's what they said. This letter went by, I couldn't print half the stuff. And I'm not gonna say it here because it may or may not be true, but horrible things were implied and horrible things happened and laws were broken and yada, yada, yada. There was, I was getting a lot of info. I was the gossip man, but I just couldn't print some of it because it was just impossible. I also did not have a message base. That's also a mistake to me.   You know, they don't know where Dark Ninja is.  You know, they don't know where he is. Which is why in a way I was kind of delighted about Fucked Company. Because Fucked Company had just put in a new feature where you could post messages. And they had got an average of 100 to 200 messages per fuck, as he puts it. 15 to 30, whatever. We got 3,000. It was enough where PUD came in at like 2,000.  And there was so much vitro.  So better go to the CEO's house at this, you know, address, ask for your checks and call ahead. Here's his home phone number and his cell phone. And I'm like, I never posted on that board ever, ever. I thought it was just too much danger for me to do. But I took great delight in sometimes taking some of the classics and putting them up on my site. So I was kind of using it as a filter going, look what that guy's doing over there. But you know, I mean, PUD to me is just on the edge. The man is gonna get whacked. It's just a matter of when. Not whacked, bang, but you know, whacked letters. Letters from, I'm sure he does already. But they're usually cease and desist letters.   Okay, so that's not, it's nothing real.  Where's the signature? Did you have to sign for your email?  You got a random email from God knows who about, God knows what, delete it.  One other important thing, the lawyer on the other side under no circumstances in any situation is your friend. And people forget that. That the guy really, really, really wants to win his case under any circumstance whatsoever. Prosecute, public defenders are a whole other deal. That's a whole other weird wacky thing you're 12, you knocked over a headstone or whatever. The guy might go look, we'll, whatever, we'll negotiate it down. But lawyer hired by big company under no circumstance wants the other guy to feel good about anything. They wanted me, when they saw this $120,000 number to come crying into their little area and they go, you've been a bad little man. Together, I think we can work something out and make me sign everything, sign away the life of myself and everyone around me because that's what the CEO wanted. Now, when I was denied, now I'm still now technically sued. I'm just loose, free. And that's when my friends started trying to get different newspapers to interview me. The Boston Herald interviewed me, like I said, with my lawyer right next to me. And I'd be like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, that's not how that they suck. And she's like, don't say that. It's really weird, it's like having the angriest angel on your shoulder. No, no, no.  So it was this weird balance I had to stick in my own mind. The first article was finally published. All right in the book Harvard net suicide owner with a quote from my lawyer, which was kind of freaky wasn't it? You know, it's like here's a guy who's being sued. Here's what his lawyer has to say I always think that's kind of wacky. Um one aspect of this that did come out by the way was that I started becoming a Source they went he knows a lot about Harvard nets. They all started calling me up and going hey, what's going on over there? I wouldn't know. Oh, it's horrible.  I Was gonna get this big shirt says sources said I am the source and Then the real killer came in that's when it by the way. I found out nobody reads the goddamn Boston Herald. I Really thought that wasn't the case But nobody reads the Boston Herald no reaction. Nothing.  Oh my god. Oh my god. Now. You're at the big time You're in the Boston Herald So we were really trying for the globe who's like if you're not a well Boston Boston Newspaper set up, you know like every other place. There's the Boston Globe, which is now by the New York Times Boston Herald, which is the yeah, Southie kind of place and then there's everybody else Including like and every other one else has to give themselves away for free and stick themselves in doorway So you'll trip over them and maybe read the headline or something So it's it's basically globe the globe was hosted at Harvard net I'm not giving away any secret because they had made a deal with Harvard Harvard Net lost money on the globe because the the the globe they put ads for themselves They got to put free ads on the web pages that were being served by this newspaper Never on a story. It was a weird rule But when they showed a story you didn't see it But like, you know, here's the stories that are up here. We're hosted by Harvard net, you know So that was we were like we really want to get in that paper and we did I got a call from a guy named Alex beam who was a columnist and Alex beam called me up and I was in San Francisco on a business trip and We get the call like hey, he wants to talk to you So I'm talking to the guy on a cell phone in the hallway during a training session With my lawyer on the line Not a three-way call Who was like wait wait? He said and He was I talked no that was right. No, I'm wrong. I'm wrong. That's the one where I talked to him first then talked to her So what did you say when they said this? I said it was something like what exactly did you say? Jason you're going to destroy everything.  Haven't they heard of the First Amendment? Congratulations, you've turned Jason Scott into a First Amendment martyr, you know You know, what kind of place is this and it was of course hosted by Harvard net The next day they dropped the case next day we get a letter and The letter by the way the lawyers gave up nothing. They gave it they they they This is this is the in this is the entire letter. I got Whereas the defendant is no longer posting any firewall information on his website Harvard net incorporated hereby Voluntarily dismisses the above caption to action without prejudice pursuant to this law What they've said was they dismissed it without prejudice.  I found out that without prejudice means we're just dropping it because we feel like it We're not admitting. We were wrong. We're not admitting. We were right. We were just we were doing it You know, we were dating and now we're not What it means is that they are allowed to start it up on a moment's notice anytime they want to Just this thing hanging over your head.  This is hailing door going no No, no, don't just give up give up kicking their ass all the way out the door So that's what the kind of places they work at so they dropped the case Immediately now the Boston Globe the way I found out that people read the Boston Globe was I got a call from my dad. I Hadn't told my parents about this shit I got two letters my parents are divorced one from my mother one for my father My father said hey someone wrote to me and said you're in the Boston Globe for something He said you were a chip off the old block.  So that was nice now. They dropped it now. We're out by that time I think we're out nineteen thousand dollars For this action action all these sets of actions So, you know people like yeah, dude, you're wanting everything. It's like I didn't really win I bought a suburban minivan and drove it off a cliff You know, I mean it was hardly a great, you know a great wondrous thing A month later.   Gotta wrap it up. Okay? Basically When I came what I came away from this thing was bitter I came away from this not really enjoying the entire experience but one thing I did learn was Every action you do there is a certain group of people out there who Have no humor who are paid to make you unhappy who will do anything a large corporation tells them to So when you do in action, you're not just what's the word?  What are you talking about?  Yeah, of course You know and on a certain level.  This is this was our defense in case you need it The firewall publishing the hosting of a firewall is like telling people where Fort Knox is rather you not know But you're not gonna get the gold bars based on that So just you know this isn't this was us sweating for hours trying to cope with how do you say it like that and You know The courts are nowhere near where we are in terms of like technical knowledge Which in fact is a good thing because if you ever one of the things you do when you're sitting in the court case Is you get to sit through a highly technical plumbing case?  They were trying to get four grand They were settling for one After five years and of that no they had no it was they had 12 grand that was coming to them of which 11,000 was going to legal fees You know so this kind of crap is happening to everyone not just us anyway, so there's my there's my entire Legal narrative. Don't go to court with it. Just think about it. Anyway, they go