[ih] Defamation lawsuit brought by self-proclaimed email "inventor" settles

[Miles Fidelman]

I kind of see it as a win for Ayyadurai - in that he's no longer facing 
a massive counter-suit.

Other than that, Techdirt has to post a link to some trash that 
Ayyadurai wrote. No big deal there.

I expect that Techdirt made the calculation that Ayyadurai wouldn't be 
able to pay off a big counter-suit, so why waste the legal fees.

Miles Fidelman

On 5/18/19 5:26 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:
> Is this a win or a loss for Masnick?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
> Truly a sad thing for free speech.
>
> RB
>
>> On May 18, 2019, at 2:30 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net 
>> <mailto:dhc at dcrocker.net>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The suit from the defendant's view:
>>
>>      Our Legal Dispute With Shiva Ayyadurai Is Now Over
>>
>>
>> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190516/22284042229/our-legal-dispute-with-shiva-ayyadurai-is-now-over.shtml?fbclid=IwAR07Mxckh00SYYY8r4C-6IEGA4AKbYaEoG2g94fwv-BEAbWGX-ikHPhENXE
>>
>>
>> d/
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