Re:Ask HN: Abusive-seeming legal threat from Semalt
by johnshon12 on Friday July 06, 2018 @02:17AM
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Got the exact same email from them today. I removed it as I'm not a legal expert and thought it looked authentic, but glad to know they don't really have any legal power to do anything.
Re:Ask HN: Abusive-seeming legal threat from Semalt
by BugZapper on Thursday June 28, 2018 @02:59PM
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Just received one as well and was about to tell them to f*ck off but then I saw that every post on medium.com related to the topic has been suspended and now I'm not sure what to do about this...
The following google search shows what I mean: semalt site:medium.com
I'm not sure about medium's usual response to legal threats but if a big company like that probably with their own legal department has complied, one has to wonder...
Re:Ask HN: Abusive-seeming legal threat from Semalt
by jeffmuffdiver on Friday July 06, 2018 @02:28AM
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Letter is rubbish. They wouldn't have the legal power to enforce anything. We received the same letter today.
For a number of reasons the letter is useless, and you shouldn't really do anything.
1. It's an email letter, legal letters for any court action need to delivered Registered post, so proof you have received it. This is relatively expensive to do. Especially at the scale they would like to do it at.
http://blog.analytics-toolkit.com/2015/guide-referrer-spam-g...
We got the same letters, sent to our ISP, instead of us, and we are a legal entity, easy to identify and contact in multiple ways. Legalese is shit, of course, we will stand our ground for sure. Unfortunately, due to procedures by our ISP we might need to temporarily remove a part of the content until the issue is resolved.