A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter

Post by wiredfool » Wed, Jun 19, 2013, 10:16 PM UTC

kevinalexbrown wrote: post #43

This reminds me about how important it is to have a solid lawyer, and an understanding of the legal ecosystem. Even in cases like this with typos, "respond in ten (10) days" can be quite intimidating, especially when there's a money/legal power asymmetry. In one such case, Monster Cable issued a C&D to a much smaller, Blue Jeans Cable. The founder actually worked in litigation for 19 years and I found this portion of…

  Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it.

Post by orik » Wed, Jun 19, 2013, 10:20 PM UTC

Falling3 wrote: post #52

digitalsushi wrote: post #26

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You don't have to be a dick about it. I thought 'whom' was right because the subject of the sentence was 'someone'.

It might have been a little dickish, but johnminton was right. People definitely have a tendency to overuse whom in a way they wouldn't with other pronouns.

Post by anoncow » Wed, Jun 19, 2013, 10:21 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #58

anoncow wrote: post #51

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Would YT get sued by Universal even with DMCA, if YT did not have a special arrangement with Universal? Without the option of counter-claiming, Youtube is a monarchy. I do expect a public company to have some sort of democracy, especially one who claims to follow "Do not be evil".

> Would YT get sued by Universal even with DMCA, if YT did not have a special arrangement with Universal? Why not? Viacom sued despite the DMCA defense.

Post by DanBC » Wed, Jun 19, 2013, 10:31 PM UTC

mitchty wrote: post #6

null_ptr wrote: post #3

Sadly, the letter is unreadable on Firefox Android. It's like everything is a widget these days, web pages are no longer self-contained, and usability, among other things, suffers.

Also unreadable where i work where scribd is basically useless. Would be nice if people linked to pdfs instead of scribd.

Post by StavrosK » Wed, Jun 19, 2013, 10:33 PM UTC

rosser wrote: post #30

johnminton wrote: post #23

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"ask who owned" not "ask whom owned". "whom" isn't just a word to put in to sound educated - it's used only when the "who" is an object. Here it is not.

Years ago, someone taught me a very handy trick for determining whether to use the subject or object form: rephrase the sentence somehow so instead of who/whom, you're using he/him (or she/her, if you're so inclined). If "she" sounds right, use "who"; if "him" sounds right, it's "whom".