my guess on why samsung did it: the leaker (as in, the person that gave ifixit the device) had an NDA with samsung and samsung is just enforcing it -- they are

my guess on why samsung did it: the leaker (as in, the person that gave ifixit the device) had an NDA with samsung and samsung is just enforcing it -- they are asking for them to take the teardown down instead of suing for breach. (of course, that's all a guess, i'm not even close to be a lawyer).