On 4/19/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Sometimes I think that people make too big an issue of these legal threats. Very few of them are serious at all.
I agree; shallow legal threats are easy to make - much easier to make than to follow through with. My reading of Brandt is that while he'd LIKE to prevail in court, I doubt he has the fiscal or legal means to mount a successful case, and that he'd rather keep the threat hanging over than risk losing.
I suspect he'd rather encourage someone else with deeper pockets to sue us.
As an aside, I do wonder how much libellous vandalism on our site is thanks to people who'd like to see us get in trouble for it?
-Matt