It seems that lawyers trying to extort money have plenty of time on their hands. Earlier today, I received the following message from them (
previous post link):
Dear Mr. Golob,
Thank
you for getting back to me. Yes, by amicable we mean a monetary
settlement out of court. There are thirty three (33) infringements that
are/were posted
on your website, to which my client owns the exclusive rights.
These
do not appear to be posted by a user but by the website itself, and
all of the pictures were housed on Mizozo servers. Therefore, the
defense of “user
content” does not appear to be a valid assertion.
Please call me to discuss this matter further.
What's most interesting to me is their count of infringements. Either they just make up numbers as they go, or they are willfully not sending me additional takedown notices.
The notice I received from them only has 4 images, so where the other 29? I remember there were many more images on that post, all of which I removed, but unfortunately I have no record of the count.
Of course, their second paragraph is also telling ... 'do not appear'. Now there's an argument! I figured they would be a bit more concrete than that.
Oh well, looks like this fun isn't ending soon. My friends tell me that I have nothing to worry about, these shakedowns happen all the time. If they do take this to court, I can potentially benefit a great deal due to the press it would generate, so I should just sit back, be nice and answer any questions they have so as not to offend. So, that is what I'll do.
I don't see any questions in this email, do you?