Comments on: BSA backs Apple http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4692 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:51:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4692/comment-page-1#comment-13002 Reader's Write Sun, 01 May 2005 07:39:03 +0000 #comment-13002 Doh! hit submit instead of preview. I forgot to mention that even if they can prove that they do work for the pr/marketing dept and they are authorised to issue press releases, i'd still want that waiver signed. Just in case that person didn't actually have permission to give me that particular info, in spite of working for the appropriate dept. Mistakes can be made, and i'll be damned if i'm gonna let myself get sued because of someone else's screwup. Doh! hit submit instead of preview.

I forgot to mention that even if they can prove that they do work for the pr/marketing dept and they are authorised to issue press releases, i’d still want that waiver signed. Just in case that person didn’t actually have permission to give me that particular info, in spite of working for the appropriate dept.

Mistakes can be made, and i’ll be damned if i’m gonna let myself get sued because of someone else’s screwup.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4692/comment-page-1#comment-13001 Reader's Write Sun, 01 May 2005 07:36:39 +0000 #comment-13001 Well, if i operated a website, i'd have to stop reporting anything from or about the listed companies. I mean how do i know who the ppl reporting this stuff to me are? They might *SAY* they work for the press dept of one of those companies, but how do i know this for certain? Just because they've got an email address at the company is no help, just because it comes faxed on the company's letterhead is no guarantee either. In fact, short of physically going to the company's HQ, seeing the head of the PR/Marketing dept and getting the info in hardcopy personally from them, with a waiver stating that the company does want this info published online and will not at any stage in the future change their mind and sue me, i wouldn't take the risk. In fact i'd probly decide to take no risks at all, and erase everything on my website that even mentioned the companies listed at all. Lets face it most website ops/owners are nowhere near as large or as wealthy as the companies listed in the article and couldn't possibly afford to fight a lawsuit. So all in all, it'd be so much safer to delete everything on the website about all of the companies listed, and never mention them again. Ever. Well, if i operated a website, i’d have to stop reporting anything from or about the listed companies. I mean how do i know who the ppl reporting this stuff to me are? They might *SAY* they work for the press dept of one of those companies, but how do i know this for certain?

Just because they’ve got an email address at the company is no help, just because it comes faxed on the company’s letterhead is no guarantee either. In fact, short of physically going to the company’s HQ, seeing the head of the PR/Marketing dept and getting the info in hardcopy personally from them, with a waiver stating that the company does want this info published online and will not at any stage in the future change their mind and sue me, i wouldn’t take the risk.

In fact i’d probly decide to take no risks at all, and erase everything on my website that even mentioned the companies listed at all. Lets face it most website ops/owners are nowhere near as large or as wealthy as the companies listed in the article and couldn’t possibly afford to fight a lawsuit.

So all in all, it’d be so much safer to delete everything on the website about all of the companies listed, and never mention them again.

Ever.

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