In other news, if you are a sleazy scam artist don’t try suing AT&T and Comcast. The sorts of high-pressure tactics that work against newbs and people who can’t afford lawyers don’t exactly work as well against corporations whose legal resources are closer in scale to a malevolent force of nature, and who have very, very, strong reasons to not let you establish an obnoxious precedent, even if they have to grind you down over the next decade to avoid it.
It certainly didn’t help their case that the presiding judge was familiar with their…colorful… history and creative interpretation of reality; but I just can’t imagine what they were thinking voluntarily going up against a couple of gigantic ISPs, especially in a world of much softer targets. Even if they were previously believed to be lily-white angels of goodness, that would have been a bad plan…
Not that I mind, of course.
