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Sounds like how Telize started. Look at the first[1] article from the author. He decided to bring the service down after being contacted by a malware research c

Sounds like how Telize started. Look at the first[1] article from the author. He decided to bring the service down after being contacted by a malware research company that his service is used by ransomware. Would you like to risk someone contacting you and possibly threatening with legal action because they would believe you might have taken part in their data being held hostage? There was a story floating around with the curl author receiving emails like that just because he showed up in credits. I personally would pull the plug from a free service immediately if I found out it was used by malware and I would have no accountability for the person I was enabling with my software. [1] - http://www.cambus.net/adventures-in-running-a-free-public-api/ http://www.cambus.net/adventures-in-running-a-free-public-ap...

danjoc 11y ago
>Would you like to risk someone contacting you and possibly threatening with legal action because they would believe you might have taken part in their data being held hostage? My dad used to tell me, "You haven't hit the big time until someone tries to sue you." Think about all those unicorns getting their first big funding checks followed immediately by patent trolling lawsuits. I wonder how someone could simply shut down a 180 million hits a day like that. Just cold turkey. What if instead he did two weeks notice to pay wall instead. Those set top box people would have forked over whatever he asked for a couple weeks at least while they scrambled for a cheaper solution. Keep the price low enough and they might just stay forever.
- rdancer 11y ago
  > Those set top box people would have forked over whatever he asked for a couple weeks at least while they scrambled for a cheaper solution The cheaper solution is to let their customers suffer the outage. Android-based STBs are not the most profitable of businesses (their business model is to aggregate copyright-infringing streams from the Internet and slap a self-contained UI on top of that). They're like $20 a pop delivered.

danjoc 11y ago

>Would you like to risk someone contacting you and possibly threatening with legal action because they would believe you might have taken part in their data being held hostage? My dad used to tell me, "You haven't hit the big time until someone tries to sue you." Think about all those unicorns getting their first big funding checks followed immediately by patent trolling lawsuits. I wonder how someone could simply shut down a 180 million hits a day like that. Just cold turkey. What if instead he did two weeks notice to pay wall instead. Those set top box people would have forked over whatever he asked for a couple weeks at least while they scrambled for a cheaper solution. Keep the price low enough and they might just stay forever.

rdancer 11y ago
> Those set top box people would have forked over whatever he asked for a couple weeks at least while they scrambled for a cheaper solution The cheaper solution is to let their customers suffer the outage. Android-based STBs are not the most profitable of businesses (their business model is to aggregate copyright-infringing streams from the Internet and slap a self-contained UI on top of that). They're like $20 a pop delivered.