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A software company called Threads says Meta tried to buy its domain and kicked it off Facebook (www.engadget.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The legal fees alone while it gets dragged out in court will definitely hurt the smaller company.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the strategy, of course. Throw a ton of lawyers at it and hope the other company just gives up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah they don’t even need to hire a law firm. They pay millions of dollars in retainer every year to keep lawyers on staff, so this is just someone’s day job to go through the motions