Cease and Desist Letters
Comments discuss receiving, sending, or responding to cease and desist letters, often advising on hiring lawyers for demand letters or counter-threats in IP or business disputes. Experiences shared include negotiating without full lawsuits and the effectiveness of legal nastygrams.
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It will get a Cease & Desist for sure.
Just guessing, but maybe threatening to sue for damages might work?
I have a friend who did this - it works. I doubt they'll have to sue, probably a simple demand letter will be sufficient.
You left out the part about filing a lawsuit against them so their legal team would be forced to respond to you.
ChatGPT is not a lawyer and this is not good advice. Generally threatening to sue will almost never serve your interests.
It seems like a reaction based on some very conservative legal advice and a nasty cease and desist letter. I hope they have a strategy to negotiate and if no quick progress then name and shame by publishing the letter.
If you're up for it, have a lawyer send them a nastygram/C&D and post on HN about what happens. Many people would probably be interested.
Did you get a cease and desist letter?
You could possibly get a result by hiring a lawyer and sending them a mean letter.
lots of companies send nastygrams like this even if they have no intention of following through with legal action. it costs them nothing (except reputation on HN) and there's a good chance the recipient will get scared and give in without a fight.there are important issues on the line here and it makes me sad that so many people feel like they need to walk away because of the possible legal expenses.i know it's easy for me to say this as i've never been sued myself, but for once, just onc