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To: Golden Eagle
Oh yeah, I remember now, the letter from Apple I showed threatening criminal prosecution

And that's it, a threat. Look over at the EFF or Chilling Effects to see many examples cease & desist letters that are completely BS. One claimed violation of a trademark that the sender didn't even own. Others claim violation of copyright and trademark, when the receiver was clearly within his rights in the use of such copyrighted materials and trademarks. Monotype sent a C&D over a program that turned off the copy protection bits in TrueType fonts, and eventually just dropped it because they had no case. Mastercard sent a C&D over trademark infringement to a humor site over a sick joke, and dropped it after they got a smart-alec reply (using the same trademarked format) showing them their claim was baseless.

Sometimes the senders of the C&D letters just quietly drop it, in others the EFF forces them to settle and drop it. So don't tell me that a C&D automatically has legal validity.

If you can come up with some actual facts, I will listen. otherwise I'm ignoring you again. You can again take my non-response to mean you didn't come up with any facts, just posted the usual libel and paranoia.

162 posted on 02/22/2007 7:39:50 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
If you can come up with some actual facts, I will listen

Facts are simple, you've already admitted lying and are still defending Russian hackers that cracked Apple's OSX operating system. I could go on but that's plenty enough, thanks for the opportunity to tell others who still may not know yet.

163 posted on 02/22/2007 11:51:16 AM PST by Golden Eagle
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