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Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
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Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems someone thinks they're being super clever when really they're just childish and annoying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
most hacker thing I've seen here in years
The website is almost 20 years old and they are no many to throw a tantrum like this.
And it can all be cleaned with a DELETE WHERE LIKE sql statement.
Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hadn't seen this before. What a nicely written letter. Explained why they have to do this, outlined a reasonable action step, and even offer to help said action. Moreover, it didn't contain a single threat. I wish all companies took such an approach. You catch more flies with honey, and all that.
I used to be the webmaster for my parent's HOA[0], and I bought their .com domain name when it became available (a realtor had owned it originally). They eventually hired a firm to run the site, and I pointed the domain at their nameservers, and forgot about it (paying the ~$20/year in renewals, because that's not a lot of money & I have fond memories of living there). 15 years later, I get a registered letter from a…
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Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#84Some followup available at https://web.archive.org/web/20080503164740/www.freesoftwarem...
*edit to fix link; in the future, maybe tell me it broke instead of reflexively downvoting
Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#85I remember buying audio gear (think receiver, amplifier, cd player) and being the focus of the upsell for 2-5x more expensive monster cables. Once I patiently explained that a cable shouldn't matter for digital as long as the bits got there, and seeing the young sales guy pause and then "get it". And I got the (relatively) cheap cables. Also speaker wire. You can get perfectly good copper cables for less, probably in…
> Once I patiently explained that a cable shouldn't matter for digital as long as the bits got there . Emphasis mine. As someone that sold AV equipment, including cables, in the late ‘00s / early ‘10s, nerds that misunderstood the nuances of this were the single worst group of customers to work with. You could see them coming a mile away. By the time “gold-plated HDMI cables are a scam” gets down to their level of ps…
I just fo to monoprice and buy whatever clear bag they sell. Network, usb, dp, HDMI, whatever. It works. Every time.
I even had their HDMI to 2xCat6 cable bridge, that worked fine with, you guessed it, monoprice cat6. Dozens of yards.
Maybe I've just gotten lucky buying cheap commodity cables.
Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#86I don't quite understand the point of litigating businesses in civil court if existential threats are excluded from judgement. What is the reasoning behind a fine being sufficient to incentivize following the law when you can make so much more money not following the law? I also don't understand what the point of shareholders and board members are if they can't be personally held liable for their investments violating civil laws.
What is the fucking rationale behind that? Why must we baby shareholders and be cruel to workers despite the latter providing 100% of society's value?
Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#87I had no idea Monster sold anything other than over priced guitar cables... About 15 yeard ago, I knew a guy who exclusively bought Monster... well he had two of them, one from the guitar to the pedal board and another from the board to the amp. But it wasn't because of their alleged improved sound quality or whatever, it was because they had a lifetime warranty. Dude had bought two monster 1/4inch cables and gotten…
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Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
For anybody who’s wondering what happened next, this is from the above link: “Monster's counsel had made a horrible mistake, and probably caused lasting harm to the company, by sending me that ridiculous letter. But he, and Monster, did apparently know the first rule of holes: "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." The end, therefore, of the story was a bit anticlimactic. Knowing that I was able to defend my…
Is there any way to file a (real) countersuit against someone, just to punish them for having wasted your time and energy with a threat of legal action that never materialized?
The term to search for this is barratry and there are laws against it in some jurisdictions.
Realistically, you will not win a judgment on this to compensate you for your time dealing with a single cease and desist letter. If someone shows a really excessive pattern of it, perhaps a judge or a bar association could be convinced to make an example of them.
Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
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> Monster's counsel had made a horrible mistake, and probably caused lasting harm to the company, by sending me that ridiculous letter This sort of thing always reminds of the Jack Daniels cease and desist letter[0], which, at least for me, had the exact opposite effect. 0. https://brokenpianoforpresident.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/jac...
Seems like he's still using their design on the ebook on amazon all these years later.
It seems that are used books
This is the new design: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/gp/aw/d/1621050521/
Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
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I used to be the webmaster for my parent's HOA[0], and I bought their .com domain name when it became available (a realtor had owned it originally). They eventually hired a firm to run the site, and I pointed the domain at their nameservers, and forgot about it (paying the ~$20/year in renewals, because that's not a lot of money & I have fond memories of living there). 15 years later, I get a registered letter from a…
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It's funny how HN/forums seem to turn everybody to Dutch directness mode :p