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I love the idea that someone at some point was like “Alex you may want to consider that you have oppositional defiance disorder” and your response was “no I don’t”

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Tee Hee

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I love how the lawyer writes "(5) it's a joke" and then immediately after chooses to list the next arguments as "(6-9)"

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You got this. Tangentially I once bought a Home Depot cedar shed kit and my then-2-year-old daughter insisted on watching the super-basic-but-slightly-hypnotic animated assembly YouTube video on repeat. It was probably the public domain background music. Or perhaps she’s a future carpenter.

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Alan is confusingly similar to Allen so I'm going to ask you to choose something else. I use the name Allen on social media to promote my information security content and I'm of the opinion that people may confuse your music content and believe it to be from me and cause my serious social media content to be disrespected leading to me not being able to find gainful employment and therefore loss of revenue and enjoyment of life.

My lawyers will contact you shortly, Mr Goldman.

- Allen™

PS Also don't use Alex. Or any name starting with "Al".

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Hmmmm. I will have a legal response to this soon

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What pisses me off here is that these multi billion dollar companies can throw around these legal threats when they KNOW, they already know, that they are not on the right side of the law. But they have the $$ to intimidate anyone into silence, because who in their right mind is able to spend money to fight them in court? You're lucky that someone is doing it pro bono for you , but normal people wouldn't have a chance in hell and would have to do whatever the company tells them to do, just on threat of being sued.

TLDR the legal system is utter bullshit and it's infuriating

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As someone in the depths of a masters in IP law this has really tickled me, a+ trademark infringement content

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I feel like Youtube probably already has edited videos of people putting together sheds (Tuff or not), but I think you might want to really consider streaming yourself doing that ASAP.

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Really dumb but “Canado” is funny

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really enjoying Isolation II! Glad you dropped the link

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this is so fantastic. I love every part of the lawyer's response and your response to the response, even when he's lightly negging you for being not "tuff" <3

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This is top notch content. (I happen to be a lawyer, but I’d enjoy it anyway)

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