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

[Richard Bennett]

Techdirt already lost its anti-SLAPP suit against Ayyadurai. Given Masnick’s penchant for hyperbole, that wasn’t surprising. 

RB

> On May 18, 2019, at 10:15 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> 
> 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 <https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190516/22284042229/our-legal-dispute-with-shiva-ayyadurai-is-now-over.shtml?fbclid=IwAR07Mxckh00SYYY8r4C-6IEGA4AKbYaEoG2g94fwv-BEAbWGX-ikHPhENXE>
>>> 
>>> 
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