Comment by anm89
5 years ago
Yes, poor repl.it who's explicitly threatening to use their big bankroll to squash a small developer doing something he is passionate about it. He should just shut up and accept the validity of their effort to silence him.
it feels like you're intentionally missing the point here. If repl.it is acting as if they believe they have legal leverage, why respond by giving them more leverage?
Ah now I understand. He should just go get his own highly paid lawyers and dig down for a lengthy legal battle. His own VC guys will foot the bill!
Or he could get on the top spot of HN for free and get a massive amount of community support, potentially people who actually will foot his legal bill, for the price of a few hours of writing a blog post.
> He should just go get his own highly paid lawyers and dig down for a lengthy legal battle.
Have you considered that what the person did in this situation was actually illegal?
Yes, when you do illegal things, it is difficult to defend them in court. But that doesn't make him in the right.
It doesn't even look like he was going to be sued, since he took down the website, and apologized.
It was the kid who went public with all of this, in order to get the clicks and likes.
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There's next to no additional leverage here, and bad PR is the best leverage you can get if you can't afford expensive lawyers.
What leverage?
To be fair, the one massive piece of leverage they have is their bankroll, regardless of the legal validity of their claim. However this just highlights the futility of turning this into a bankrolled lawyer battle.
that's a much more reasonable question and would be a reasonable response, but OP decided that instead of asking that question, he's rather provoke repl.it. If they had no leverage before, asking what leverage isn't going to increase how much leverage they have. But this? This post seems to me like it's more likely to increase repl.it's leverage against OP than the reverse.