<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="">Yeah, there was never any question about the fact that the suit was meritless. Techdirt’s clickbait is reprehensible, but it’s the kind of reprehensible that’s protected by the First Amendment. The battle was always about the legal fees.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RB<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 19, 2019, at 3:14 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="">hello - Techdirt defeated the lawsuit thats a win, an expensive one, but a win<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 19, 2019, at 4:52 PM, Richard Bennett <<a href="mailto:richard@bennett.com" class="">richard@bennett.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">So nobody won but the lawyers.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 19, 2019, at 2:01 PM, Scott O. Bradner <<a href="mailto:sob@sobco.com" class="">sob@sobco.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br 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=""></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=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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