Comment by danuker
5 years ago
They realized you had the potential of taking away some of their traffic.
Traffic lets them sell data, charm investors, and maybe improve their service to a limited extent by analyzing that data.
What do they have to lose by bullying you, since they have lawyers on the payroll already?
You could ask a lawyer if you have a chance to win in court.
Perhaps the EFF would like to grind their teeth on Replit and create a precedent: https://www.eff.org/pages/legal-assistance
> They realized you had the potential of taking away some of their traffic.
Understandable... but bullying people via email will take away even more traffic from their site (because of bad reputation) if the conversation goes public (as it usually happens).