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Public statement source · YT796
Amazon will be the END of SMALL BUSINESS!
Four grievances are named in twenty seconds, and each one later becomes litigation — but not for years, and this video announces no filing at all. "infiltrated my business to steal money on multiple occasions" is the C089 grievance in his own words; C089 (Frankies Free Range Meat LLC et al v. Adam Starowicz, N.Y. Sup. Ct.) was filed 2021-04-22 and was live on the publish date, 200 days earlier (2021-04-22 to 2021-11-08, computed as a date difference), yet he names no case, no court and no person. "locked down my shopify account" is the Shopify grievance stated 1,201 days before the earliest tracked Shopify filing (2021-11-08 to 2025-02-21, C047, Tufano v. Shopify (USA) Inc. et al, M.D. Pa.; the NY action C095 is 1,204 days later and the Lackawanna action C013 is 1,306 days later — all three computed as date differences). "have resorted to petty lawsuits" is read with the direction trap in mind: the verb is theirs, not his — consistent with C100 (Saladino, MD v. Frank Tufano, S.D.N.Y., filed 2020-11-07, 366 days before publication), which is a suit against him. "shut down my kickstarter" matches nothing: kickstarter does not appear in lawsuits.csv, aliases.csv, disputes.csv or research_notes.csv. Factor is No filing-conduct factor because the only filing conduct described here is other people's. Possible case/dispute link: tentative and unconfirmed — the money-stolen grievance reads onto C089 / DSP020 and the Shopify grievance onto DSP002, but no party, case or court is named in the transcript, and the title names Amazon rather than either. Recorded as an adjacency, not a link.
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How a tier is assigned.Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
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they've plagiarized my years of work and many business ideas shut down my kickstarter locked down my shopify account infiltrated my business to steal money on multiple occasions and have resorted to petty lawsuits
Four grievances are named in twenty seconds, and each one later becomes litigation — but not for years, and this video announces no filing at all. "infiltrated my business to steal money on multiple occasions" is the C089 grievance in his own words; C089 (Frankies Free Range Meat LLC et al v. Adam Starowicz, N.Y. Sup. Ct.) was filed 2021-04-22 and was live on the publish date, 200 days earlier (2021-04-22 to 2021-11-08, computed as a date difference), yet he names no case, no court and no person. "locked down my shopify account" is the Shopify grievance stated 1,201 days before the earliest tracked Shopify filing (2021-11-08 to 2025-02-21, C047, Tufano v. Shopify (USA) Inc. et al, M.D. Pa.; the NY action C095 is 1,204 days later and the Lackawanna action C013 is 1,306 days later — all three computed as date differences). "have resorted to petty lawsuits" is read with the direction trap in mind: the verb is theirs, not his — consistent with C100 (Saladino, MD v. Frank Tufano, S.D.N.Y., filed 2020-11-07, 366 days before publication), which is a suit against him. "shut down my kickstarter" matches nothing: kickstarter does not appear in lawsuits.csv, aliases.csv, disputes.csv or research_notes.csv. Factor is No filing-conduct factor because the only filing conduct described here is other people's. Possible case/dispute link: tentative and unconfirmed — the money-stolen grievance reads onto C089 / DSP020 and the Shopify grievance onto DSP002, but no party, case or court is named in the transcript, and the title names Amazon rather than either. Recorded as an adjacency, not a link.
Moderate pattern relevanceFiling announced or confirmedJudicial or forum bias alleged01:48
asking other content creators content readers and lawyers for help with my kickstarter being shut down only to be ignored and shunned then countersuing these degenerates only to be jerked around by lawyers and the legal system they own
He states a filing he has already made — "then countersuing these degenerates" — and in the same sentence alleges the forum is captured: "the legal system they own". Two things make this load-bearing and both need care. First, he frames his own suit as a counter, i.e. as an answer to being sued. That bears directly on the archive's open, unresolved direction conflict (elsewhere he has described a business partner as "suing me", while C089 records him as plaintiff). This file adds a third data point and deliberately does not adjudicate it: "countersuing" is his characterisation, spoken 200 days after C089 was filed, and the referent of "these degenerates" in this sentence is the Kickstarter/plagiarism group, not any named person. Second, the tier is capped at Moderate: Filing announced or confirmed is not one of the three core factors, and no tracked case is named in the transcript, so Strong is unavailable on both counts. Note also that seeking "help... from lawyers" and being "ignored and shunned" is a pro-se-access complaint, not a court finding of anything. Possible case/dispute link: tentative and unconfirmed — most plausibly C089 / DSP020 on date proximity, and possibly the counter-posture to C100 / DSP003, but neither case, court nor party is named. Not found under a Kickstarter grievance in aliases.csv, lawsuits.csv (case_title or defendants), disputes.csv, research_notes.csv or litigation_timeline.csv.
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55177/2021 — FRANKIES FREE RANGE MEAT LLC et al v. ADAM STAROWICZTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 01:48 researched as bearing on this case: [1:48]–[2:07] — Says he countersued after being ignored, and that the legal system is owned by his opponents.
7:20-cv-09346 — Saladino, MD v. Frank TufanoTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 01:48 researched as bearing on this case: [1:48]–[2:07] — Says he countersued after being ignored, and that the legal system is owned by his opponents.