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Wouldn't it be smarter of Arrington (he's a lawyer, right?) to keep his approach and related docs under wraps? Wouldn't posts like these just make it easier for

by nphase 16y ago

Wouldn't it be smarter of Arrington (he's a lawyer, right?) to keep his approach and related docs under wraps? Wouldn't posts like these just make it easier for FG, et al. to defend themselves? Edit: Why am I getting downvoted? It's a simple question, IANAL.

mtigas 16y ago
As others have mentioned, the actual "damages" in terms of JooJoo sales is basically zero, so TC will likely recover little in terms of that. However, the proceedings make for really awesome entertainment and TC could likely see a modest profit for publicly keeping the topic fresh, bringing in traffic, etc. (On another note, I'm going to assume that FG knows this information exists and can be found/subpoena'd. They should already be preparing to defend themselves against the information in this release.)
martey 16y ago
IANAL, either, but it looks like these documents came out of the discovery process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_%28law%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_%28law%29 As a result, Fusion Garage knows that TechCrunch knows about these documents, and their lawyers should realize that they will probably be used as evidence. Also: I’m embedding all the relevant documents below. A lot of time has been spent by Fusion Garage’s lawyers to try to keep these documents under seal, but they have recently been made publicly available. I imagine that they wanted the documents kept private because they make Fusion Garage look very bad. Even if they end up surviving this lawsuit, I do not think very many companies will want to work with them.
Kadin 16y ago
They're part of the discovery process and were unsealed; thus they're part of the public record. It makes sense for TC to reveal them: this deprives FG and its PR-firm cronies the opportunity of spinning them the way they'd prefer, and is probably just good business in terms of TechCrunch's core business of selling eyeballs to advertisers. (It got me to visit their site, which I rarely do, FWIW.)
redrobot5050 16y ago
Winning a victory in court is only a secondary objective. Arrington wants to win in the court of public opinion, and he wants to wreck Fusion Garage. He wants the people who made the decision to bury him irrelevant to the Valley. This was his baby, anyway. Not that it wouldn't have been crushed by the iPad and all the johnny come laties.

by nphase 16y ago

mtigas 16y ago

As others have mentioned, the actual "damages" in terms of JooJoo sales is basically zero, so TC will likely recover little in terms of that. However, the proceedings make for really awesome entertainment and TC could likely see a modest profit for publicly keeping the topic fresh, bringing in traffic, etc. (On another note, I'm going to assume that FG knows this information exists and can be found/subpoena'd. They should already be preparing to defend themselves against the information in this release.)

martey 16y ago

IANAL, either, but it looks like these documents came out of the discovery process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_%28law%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_%28law%29 As a result, Fusion Garage knows that TechCrunch knows about these documents, and their lawyers should realize that they will probably be used as evidence. Also: I’m embedding all the relevant documents below. A lot of time has been spent by Fusion Garage’s lawyers to try to keep these documents under seal, but they have recently been made publicly available. I imagine that they wanted the documents kept private because they make Fusion Garage look very bad. Even if they end up surviving this lawsuit, I do not think very many companies will want to work with them.

Kadin 16y ago

They're part of the discovery process and were unsealed; thus they're part of the public record. It makes sense for TC to reveal them: this deprives FG and its PR-firm cronies the opportunity of spinning them the way they'd prefer, and is probably just good business in terms of TechCrunch's core business of selling eyeballs to advertisers. (It got me to visit their site, which I rarely do, FWIW.)

redrobot5050 16y ago

Winning a victory in court is only a secondary objective. Arrington wants to win in the court of public opinion, and he wants to wreck Fusion Garage. He wants the people who made the decision to bury him irrelevant to the Valley. This was his baby, anyway. Not that it wouldn't have been crushed by the iPad and all the johnny come laties.