Tony Sidaway (minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com) [050513 17:26]:
geni said:
>> Perhaps more realistically, we want to be so
credible and widely used
>> that merely publishing the C&D letter on the main page will cause the
>> foolhardy company to get deluged with hate mail and
>> backpedal within 24 hours, disavowing any knowledge of the law
>> firm that sent the letter. We've shown we can raise thousands of
>> dollars within a few days just by asking; that's a reservoir of
>> good will that can help us deal with a wide variety of threats.
> I would suggest against any form of vigilantism.
Apart from anything
> else sooner or latter you run into someone who doesn't care. Then you
> are in real trouble.
Indeed. The first sniff of endorsement of that kind of
thuggery and I'll
be gone, for one.
Publishing a takedown notice is vigilantism?
- d.