<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="">Is this a win or a loss for Masnick?<br class=""><br class=""></span><span class="">It looks like Ayyadurai has won. Masnick has to give him free advertising after spending a small fortune to defend his speech rights and Ayyadurai doesn't have to give up his criminal ways.</span><div class=""><span class=""><br class="">This appears to put Masnick in the same position as an artist whose work has been pirated who spends heavily in a lawsuit that fails to stop the abuse of his speech rights.<br class="">Truly a sad thing for free speech.</span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class="">RB<br class=""></span><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 18, 2019, at 2:30 PM, Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dhc@dcrocker.net" class="">dhc@dcrocker.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">The suit from the defendant's view:<br class=""><br class=""> Our Legal Dispute With Shiva Ayyadurai Is Now Over<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190516/22284042229/our-legal-dispute-with-shiva-ayyadurai-is-now-over.shtml?fbclid=IwAR07Mxckh00SYYY8r4C-6IEGA4AKbYaEoG2g94fwv-BEAbWGX-ikHPhENXE" class="">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190516/22284042229/our-legal-dispute-with-shiva-ayyadurai-is-now-over.shtml?fbclid=IwAR07Mxckh00SYYY8r4C-6IEGA4AKbYaEoG2g94fwv-BEAbWGX-ikHPhENXE</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">d/<br class="">-- <br class="">Dave Crocker<br class="">Brandenburg InternetWorking<br class="">bbiw.net<br class="">_______<br class="">internet-history mailing list<br class="">internet-history@postel.org<br class="">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history<br class="">Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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