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It was clearly a punishment for acting like a petulant child.
by crushcrashcrush 8y ago
It was clearly a punishment for acting like a petulant child.
- Bartweiss 8y agoIt's worth noting that Levison may not have been handing over written keys as an act of protest/petulance/whatever, but as a delaying tactic. He'd been looking for legal aid (and failing, because under a gag order he couldn't request non-attorney help finding it), and was in court without representation. Levinson was ordered to produce keys on August 1, and did so on paper August 2. It took until the 5th to get together a contempt charge and an order to surrender digital keys by the 6th. Honestly, the alternative doesn't make much sense. If he just provided paper keys as a final insult, expecting them to be used, why shutter the entire service when someone called him on it? Why then wait two days past the start of the fines to pull the plug? I'm not surprised that Levinson caught a contempt charge for printing the keys, although it's pretty ugly if he's right in his claim that he was denied a hearing to contest the charge, then denied appeal for his failure to contest it. But doing so seems less like a move to irritate people than a way to drag out the process without naked defiance.