<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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        </span><span class="">RB<br class="">
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            <div class="">On May 18, 2019, at 2:30 PM, Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dhc@dcrocker.net" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">dhc@dcrocker.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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                The suit from the defendant's view:<br class="">
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                     Our Legal Dispute With Shiva Ayyadurai Is Now Over<br class="">
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. 
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. 
In our lab, theory and practice are combined: 
nothing works and no one knows why.  ... unknown</pre>
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