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Best Buy Hands Out Cease & Desist Letters for Christmas
arrenlex writes "Improv Everywhere, a NY-based comedy group, was served a Cease & Desist notice by Best Buy for selling 'improv everywhere' shirts modeled after the blue Best Buy uniform. But that's not the interesting part. From the blog post: 'Here's where the story gets interesting. Today, Best Buy sent a C&D to our friend Scott Beale over at laughingsquid.com threatening legal action unless he removes the blog post referencing our shirts! They're threatening to sue someone for just covering the news story of the shirts!'"
So, if this trend continues, \. will get a C&D order for the "broken windows" icon for MS related stories.
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>> punitive damages to the company
Yeah! I hope the lose their shirts.
that the C&D came from a Best Buy lawyer or just someone in Besy Buy lawyer's clothing?
The Goon Squad will go out to the offender's house to uninstall the HDTV and replace it with an old CRT TV.
There are no Best Buy shirts.
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
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They don't want someone wearing the shirt to enter the store to pretend to be an employee. The customer might think they're getting excellent customer service from an imposter.
I have not done a lot of things yet in life, and receiving a C&D letter is one of them. What do /.-ers think is my 'best' chance of getting one from BestBuy?
/. think?
1 - YouTube channel?
2 - BestChance.com website?
3 - changing my middle name to bestbuy?
4 - suing bestbuy for discrimination, on the basis that I didn't get a C&D leter?
5 - Setting up a store in SecondLife called BestBye? Giving away uniforms for other SL stores?
6 - Call the secret whitehouse telephone line, claiming to be the bestbuy ceo?
7 - Getting GreenPeach to name a whale 'best buy'
8 - Setup a reddit account under the name bEsTbUy, and only submit stories on best buy?
9 - Number nine left out because the writers are on strike
10 - buy 300 hours of blimp advertising, with sign that looks like the best buy sign, but done in crayon and written upside down?
What does
Support NYCountryLawyer RIAA vs People
... and the "Nerd Herd" is obviously a reference to the "Geek Squad" (other than the Nerd Herd folks are portrayed as being competent).
Cheers,
Dave
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
Heh. So true.
However, you don't need the shirt to pull that off . . . I get asked if I'm a manager (or people assume that and launch straight into asking a store question) at virtually every large store in which I shop. I have on several occasions now had *employees* assume I was a manager. It's kinda amusing when the aisle you're in turns into a helpdesk . . . (I do tell people "actually, no, I don't work here" but then do my best to answer their question, as I often can)
"There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order." - Ed Howdershelt
I believe the constitution is quite clear on the whole 'freedom of the press' type thing.
The Constitution? Is that thing still around?"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." -- Eric Hoffer
So you told us you haven't bought much stuff at Best Buy in the past although you visited the store more, and now you are refusing to buy anything in the future. Yep that'll hurt 'em. Hit them where it counts ... in the guy-wanders-around-store-alot-but-now-we-don't-see-him-anymore department!
Don't mod this guy up! he's probably just an imposter!
http://greenobyl.com/ please.... think of the children!!
As for the event people: hey it's art. Maybe not to your taste, but no more a waste of time than, say, sports.
Did you stay at Holiday Express the night before? :)
Wait, are you supposed to be commenting over with your friends on Digg? I think you'll be welcome over there.
A couple of years ago, I ducked into my local BB completely unaware that I was dressed very much like all the people who work there. I had the khakis and a (Penguin logo) blue shirt, same shade as their official "uniforms". As I'm walking by the laptop display, this harried looking soccer mom stops me and starts asking me a bunch of questions about the laptops in that "Hurry up young man, I've got to pick up my kids in 20 minutes" way. Completely not understanding her insistance, I told her I couldn't help her. So, she says, "Well, if you can't be bothered, I'll just take my business elsewhere!" I replied something like, "Whatever makes you happy sweetheart." and went on with my shopping.
About 2 mins later, I hear her shrill voice and look over. She's got the floor manager out and she's yelling at him about "That rude young man! That one! Right there!" Pointing at me! Okay, now I figured it out and started to walk over to explain while the manager is going, "Ma'am, he doesn't work here. He's a customer too."
Now, I kind of feel bad about the next part, but I honestly couldn't help it. I saw his nametag had "Scott" on it, so as I walked up, ignoring the unconvinced customer, I said, "Hey Scott, sorry, but I've already punched out and I'm in a real hurry. See you in the morning! Bye!"
The poor guy was still trying to talk her down as I was leaving!
Scott, buddy, if you're out there - Sorry, but really, it was kind of funny, right?
Female logic at it's best.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
I went down to the Chelsea boxstore
/.
...oh yes
To get my wii that was on sale..
I was standing in line with a fake assistant,
And man, he did the job pretty well.
We decided that we should have a party,
My favorite pastime, mocking newbs.
My storys been posted up on
My servers dead, guess we filled the tubes.. .
You can't always wear what you want,
You can't always wear what you want,
You can't always wear what you want,
But if you try sometimes you just might find
A cease and desist,
Do you often wear wrinkled khakis and a slightly large button down shirt?
Just kidding, Every time i wear a red shirt at target, i always get asked questions by customers. God i wish they'd leave me alone and let me stand around for another 8 hours.
I was in Best Buy (Rockwall,Tx) last Sunday, and I swear the guy thought he was a secret agent. He spoke like Captain Awesome and wore an ear piece putting his finger to it to inform the front desk we were on our way with our new purchase.
Perhaps this Best Buy should be sent a cease and desist for ripping off 'Chuck'.
To the sales rep's credit, he stopped trying to sell me Antivirus/anti-malware stuff after I said I was going to stick Ubuntu on the new laptop.... he just said 'Awesome, good choice'... (in his Captain Awesome voice... with a 'thumbs up' )
... and male punctuation, cockhead.
Rats. I'm wearing a blue shirt today.
:)
I'm going to look pretty silly after I cut it off and come home in my white cuffs, collar, and tie.
My wife will probably expect a dance . . .
hawk
I think the correct response to this cease-and-desist letter would be a fuck-off-and-die letter.
That's still one too many
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
I thought the whole point of an apology was to say your sorry for something you never should have done in the first place.
Personally, I never apologize for things I should have done in the first place.
The cake is a pie
Did their lawyers just refer you to the Wikipedia entry on the DMCA?!?
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
Clearly their lawyers are bored and need things to do. I suggest somebody tell them to watch the TV show "Chuck"... there's a C&D in the waiting...
Did you try yelling "PINEAPPLE!"?
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and requested a read receipt
I was speaking to my (Finnish) boss about his (French) boss as we were about to take a business trip from Finland to France. In Finnish, 'boss' is 'pomo', and 'bomb' is 'pommi', but I didn't know that at the time, and I happily mispronounced everything. I wondered why my bomb was very twitchy, but he didn't want to explain it to me while we were in the airport. At about that point, I received an SMS from my girlfriend, for whom, in the context of sending or receiving SMSs, my nickname is 'bomb' (simple puzzle - can you now guess what her name is?), which I vocalised. My bomb told me he never wanted to fly with me again...
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