> However the real life harassing of this individual is not something a civil society should condone. The real life harassing of an individual making web comic

> However the real life harassing of this individual is not something a civil society should condone. The real life harassing of an individual making web comics by stealing and re-branding his content when all he asked was not to photoshop out his brandings at the bottom, trying to incite people to go after him(funnyjunk's mail to its userbase), then threatening him with lawsuit unless he pays up when he is done nothing wrong is also not something a civil society should condone. > internet vigilantes All people are doing is making some noise in their blogs and other social media outlets, and sending the lawyer mails. > I know this lawyer has done something we think is both morally wrong, legally dubious, I have a problem with both morally wrong and legally dubious. I am just a lawyer for my client shouldn't get you off the hook. I am just doing my job has got to be the most irritating and weakest excuse in the history of mankind. From where I see, the lawyer shouldn't have difficulty in comprehending funnyjunk, and not oatmeal is the one stealing ; and there is 0 sense in harassing the oatmeal over it, yet he is doing it. I don't see why the lawyer deserves my considerations. I believe there are provisions to get a lawyer debarred for frivolous law-suits, but they are difficult in practice, and take a lot of time and money. Matthew Inman happens to have the money and the following to stand up to this bullying; there isn't much a smaller web comic creator would have done. The lawyer's situation is much, much more pleasant that what theoatmeal's would have been, had he lacked the money or the resources to fight back. This lawyer, or funnyjunk, doesn't deserve my sympathy. If you think otherwise, we must agree to disagree. > I would hope that at least the mob of individuals who frequent this web site would be a little classier then both Matthew Inman ,and the internet at larges response. But while you are disagreeing, please get off your high horse.