but the bottom of the rotten.com letter is interesting...
"Also, so that we can fully assess the extent of your infringement, and determine appropriate compensation for past infringement, please inform us of precisely how long the infringing Material has appeared on the Internet before it is discontinued."
Yes, why don't you incriminate yourself...please.
This statement was not included in the Templeton letter, but I think it pretty clearly shows Mastercard's (and their lawyer's) legal motivation.
Still, I wish they would've learned something from fighting with Nader...or maybe they just learned to threaten people who they thought were lower down on the legal knowledge totem pole (as Brad Templeton said).
I don't understand why they think jokes like this make them look bad, making unjustified legal threats makes them look worse than any joke ever would. Also, this kind of behavior reinforces people's opinion that you really CAN sue for anything and everything...
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Looks like the same letter, more or less...
but the bottom of the rotten.com letter is interesting...
"Also, so that we can fully assess the extent of your infringement, and determine appropriate compensation for past infringement, please inform us of precisely how long the infringing Material has appeared on the Internet before it is discontinued."
Yes, why don't you incriminate yourself...please.
This statement was not included in the Templeton letter, but I think it pretty clearly shows Mastercard's (and their lawyer's) legal motivation.
Still, I wish they would've learned something from fighting with Nader...or maybe they just learned to threaten people who they thought were lower down on the legal knowledge totem pole (as Brad Templeton said).
I don't understand why they think jokes like this make them look bad, making unjustified legal threats makes them look worse than any joke ever would. Also, this kind of behavior reinforces people's opinion that you really CAN sue for anything and everything...