<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="">Techdirt already lost its anti-SLAPP suit against Ayyadurai. Given Masnick’s penchant for hyperbole, that wasn’t surprising. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RB<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 18, 2019, at 10:15 PM, Miles Fidelman <<a href="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net" class="">mfidelman@meetinghouse.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class="">I kind of see it as a win for <span class="">Ayyadurai - in that
he's no longer facing a massive counter-suit.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Other than that, Techdirt has to post a link to
some trash that </span><span class=""><span class="">Ayyadurai
wrote. No big deal there.</span></span></p><p class=""><span class=""><span class="">I expect that Techdirt made the
calculation that </span></span><span class=""><span class=""><span class="">Ayyadurai wouldn't be able to pay off a big
counter-suit, so why waste the legal fees.</span></span></span></p><p class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class="">Miles Fidelman<br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/18/19 5:26 PM, Richard Bennett
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<span class="">Is this a win or a loss for Masnick?<br class="">
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</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>
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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="">
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The suit from the defendant's view:<br class="">
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