<story><title>What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/what3words-legal-threat-whatfreewords/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dataflow</author><text>&amp;gt; I will not send you personal contact info of anyone for anything without a warrant&amp;#x2F;suponea&lt;p&gt;Unless you&amp;#x27;re (a) swimming in money, (b) have some kind of strong (and free?) legal&amp;#x2F;financial support behind you to battle such a thing, (c) are not in the US, or (d) are so poor that you have nothing to lose anyway, this sounds like a rather incredible claim. Most people facing potentially massive lawsuits would probably cave.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>From TFA: “This is not a battle worth fighting,” he said in a tweet. Toponce told TechCrunch that he has complied with the demands, fearing legal repercussions if he didn’t.&lt;p&gt;Okay, but let&amp;#x27;s see what they wanted: &amp;quot;The letter also demands that he disclose to the law firm the identity of the person or people with whom he had shared a copy of the software, agree that he would not make any further copies of the software and to delete any copies of the software he had in his possession.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Umm, F-THAT!! I will not send you personal contact info of anyone for anything without a warrant&amp;#x2F;suponea for any of my clients&amp;#x2F;customers&amp;#x2F;users&amp;#x2F;friends. Anyone that would be willing to do that should have that tattooed across their foreheads so anyone in the future will know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e1g</author><text>It’s tempting to think that being “right” - in principle, objectively, or even legally - gives superpowers over legal proceedings. It doesn’t. Even a brief brush against targeted litigation will clear up this confusion quickly and painfully. You’ll be broke, and therefore defeated by default, long before you’ll be vindicated.</text></comment>
<story><title>What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/what3words-legal-threat-whatfreewords/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dataflow</author><text>&amp;gt; I will not send you personal contact info of anyone for anything without a warrant&amp;#x2F;suponea&lt;p&gt;Unless you&amp;#x27;re (a) swimming in money, (b) have some kind of strong (and free?) legal&amp;#x2F;financial support behind you to battle such a thing, (c) are not in the US, or (d) are so poor that you have nothing to lose anyway, this sounds like a rather incredible claim. Most people facing potentially massive lawsuits would probably cave.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>From TFA: “This is not a battle worth fighting,” he said in a tweet. Toponce told TechCrunch that he has complied with the demands, fearing legal repercussions if he didn’t.&lt;p&gt;Okay, but let&amp;#x27;s see what they wanted: &amp;quot;The letter also demands that he disclose to the law firm the identity of the person or people with whom he had shared a copy of the software, agree that he would not make any further copies of the software and to delete any copies of the software he had in his possession.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Umm, F-THAT!! I will not send you personal contact info of anyone for anything without a warrant&amp;#x2F;suponea for any of my clients&amp;#x2F;customers&amp;#x2F;users&amp;#x2F;friends. Anyone that would be willing to do that should have that tattooed across their foreheads so anyone in the future will know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eru</author><text>Alas, not being in the US does not protect against the American legal system.</text></comment>