<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="">So nobody won but the lawyers.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 19, 2019, at 2:01 PM, Scott O. Bradner <<a href="mailto:sob@sobco.com" class="">sob@sobco.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">yes, Techdirt won the first round - the defeated the complaint <br class=""><br class="">they did not win everything since they did not get the SLAPP decision they wanted but<br class="">Ayyadurai did not get to collect a lot of money or to put Techdirt out of business<br class=""><br class="">Scott <br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 19, 2019, at 3:10 PM, Richard Bennett <<a href="mailto:richard@bennett.com" class="">richard@bennett.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Did they? As it stands, Techdirt will not collect any fees and its SLAPP suit has been dropped. <br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 19, 2019, at 4:17 AM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <<a href="mailto:el@lisse.na" class="">el@lisse.na</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Richard,<br class=""><br class="">that is a bit selective.<br class=""><br class="">They did win the first round.<br class=""><br class="">But as protected speech. An Anti-SLAPP win would have allowed them to recover costs, which in US litigation is notably rare.<br class=""><br class="">el<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini<br class="">On 19 May 2019, 06:54 +0200, Richard Bennett <<a href="mailto:richard@bennett.com" class="">richard@bennett.com</a>>, wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Techdirt already lost its anti-SLAPP suit against Ayyadurai. Given Masnick’s penchant for hyperbole, that wasn’t surprising. <br class=""><br class="">RB <br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">_______<br class="">internet-history mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org" class="">internet-history@postel.org</a><br class="">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history<br class="">Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">—<br class="">Richard Bennett<br class="">High Tech Forum Founder<br class="">Ethernet & Wi-Fi standards co-creator<br class=""><br class="">Internet Policy Consultant<br class=""><br class="">_______<br class="">internet-history mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org" class="">internet-history@postel.org</a><br class="">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history<br class="">Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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