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This is terrifying. I wonder what the threat said.
by blhack 16y ago
This is terrifying. I wonder what the threat said.
- frossie 16y agoIt's a bit strange, if you read the follow on thread the person who presumably sent the email claims he did not make any legal threats, and his email was merely "abrasive". http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2011-April/068017.html http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2011-Apr... http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2011-April/068020.html http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2011-Apr... I have no idea where the right or wrong in this lies.
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- tommi 16y agoI see no claims nor indications that Michael Niedermayer sent legal threats.
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- jamesaguilar 16y agoWhat's terrifying to me is the dilution of the meaning of the word "terrifying." I see it on this site in response to the most minor of occurrences.
- blhack 16y agoWhat's terrifying about this is that it sounds like a participator in the project is effectively stopping simply because of a legal threat. How is this not terrifying to you? It means that our legal system is completely broken. This is actually kindof an open ended question. My response was downvoted to -3, which generally means somebody has said something stupid. Am I missing something here? Do most people honestly think that this is an acceptable practice? Okay, honestly, blatant misuse of our legal system being used to pressure somebody out of a project is a misuse of the word terrifying, but using the word to describe the misuse is a proper use of it? That's terrifying.
- brazzy 16y agoRead the mail again. He wrote that he got used to ignore corporate legal threats. What caused how to leave the project was not the threat itself but the fact that he got it from other members of the project whom he's working together with voluntarily in his free time..
- mbreese 16y agoPeople get threatened with lawsuits all the time. What matters is when they actually get filed. This person is leaving the project not due to the threat of a lawsuit, but because of who threatened -- other project members. This isn't a case of a legal system run amuck, it's a case of overkill when asking someone to leave a project.
- jamesaguilar 16y ago1. How do you know it is being misused? There could be a legitimate legal complaint here. 2. How does a legal threat indicate that the legal system is broken? People disagree on matters of the law all the time. There is nothing terrifying about that. 3. How expensive is this threat likely to be? Desist from whatever the other person is threatening you over, or else if you have the right to do it spend a few hundred dollars getting a lawyer to write a counter-notice. It's not that big of a deal. 4. This follows an incident where someone who might have done something slightly foolish or contentious surrounding a trademark or copyrighted work. Since I don't tend to do contentious things in this arena, I'm very unlikely to ever be the target of a legal threat like this. Even if I did, how many people do such things and never get threatened? I suspect many. If the cost of getting threatened is low, the odds of getting threatened are even lower. How could I possibly be terrified of something unlikely to ever affect me? So, yeah, even after your response I still think the use of the word "terrifying" in this context is quite foolish.