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AMI is willing to accept a loss of future profits gained from running the story, in exchange for Bezos’s capitulation. If you have access to AMI’s advertising r
by Mtinie 8y ago
AMI is willing to accept a loss of future profits gained from running the story, in exchange for Bezos’s capitulation. If you have access to AMI’s advertising rate card and a rough subscriber count you can estimate the USD value this information represents.
As others have mentioned, “thing of value” does not have to be monetary. For example, there are a number of cases where a person was found guilty of extorting another for sexual favors[0] or to exact a particular benefit (political or otherwise) from a victim.
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[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextortion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextortion
- bayesian_horse 8y agoNo, it doesn't only mean "money". Still, it's not perfectly clear that the requested declaration is a "thing of value" and legal scholars are already debating it. The idea of AMI foregoing a story is not a good argument in this case because this would mean AMI profits by Bezos ignoring the request...