They probably could have pursued it further. Presumably their time is valuable (and that value is easily quantifiable) and they had to spend some of it defendi

They probably could have pursued it further. Presumably their time is valuable (and that value is easily quantifiable) and they had to spend some of it defending this spurious claim. It feels very much like patent trolling but it's copyright trolling. Cloudflare famously stood up to a patent troll and prevailed. In their first blog post about it [0], they wrote, > This claim is a nuisance for us. The lawsuit will take our time, distract us from our work, and it will cost us money to fight. Patent trolls like Blackbird Technologies (@bbird_tech) exist to create these headaches so companies will play along and give them money to go away. The only difference I can see is that patent trolls like Blackbird use the courts whereas copyright trolls use YouTube. [0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/standing-up-to-a-dangerous-new-breed-of-patent-troll/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/standing-up-to-a-dangerous-new-b...