Comment by anm89
5 years ago
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.
Hmmm... what laws do you think might have been broken here?
Any numerous things having to do with copyright/intellectual property, or something related to any of that general category of stuff.
The person used to work at that company, and then they built a similar project, that looks really similar to that other product.
So something to do with design copyright. You can't just copy someone else's designs, in a similar space, at a company that you used to work for. You probably run afoul of something having to do with intellectual property or design copyright.
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What is your legal theory regarding what's illegal here?
> Lol, care to share your legal theory here Perry Mason?
Hey, please don't break the site guidelines by being an asshole on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is, or you feel they are, or how badly anyone else has behaved or you feel they have. It only makes things even worse.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: it looks like we've had to warn you about this more than once before. Would you mind reviewing the guidelines and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart? You can easily still make all your substantive points that way.
Edit 2: thanks for the edit; that's indeed much better.