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Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Guest — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:12:25 -0000

I can only suppose they were like, "you're saying this guy Scott Beale has HOW many readers?? That many?? Oops. Uh, better clean this up, and quick!!"

Kinda like ticking off BoingBoing. A supremely poor marketing decision.

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Shop at Circuit City — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:57:58 -0000

Too little, too late.

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

KitsapPatriot — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:06:05 -0000

You should consider a complaint with his local bar. Dumb lawyers shouldn't practice law.

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

ech — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:22:32 -0000

Um. They regret sending the letter, but have they withdrawn it? I don't see that anywhere.

You know, I regretted having to put down a dog of mine, but I had it done anyway......

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Ben — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:00:56 -0000

I'm glad that Best Buy owned up to their mistake. Most big companies these days would just deny they made a mistake and act like they are somehow above apologizing for an error. If anyone from Best Buy is reading this: VERY good move.

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Mick Liubinskas — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:57:06 -0000

Wow, pretty fast moving legal department. They were obviously expecting some schtick in response.

Way to let that zoom on by and crash into the window LS.

Mick

P.S. I'd also like to apologise for drinking your beer while your back was turned at the SF Beta event back in August.... I respect your 21st Amendment Rights.

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Nimaru — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:56:36 -0000

Awesome. I guess I don't have to worry about them coming after me for blogging about YOU now :D

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

JMHawkins — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:04:28 -0000

Well, they did half the right thing here. The other half would be stating "We are taking serious steps to insure our legal representation does not make such mistakes in the future." Otherwise they are just, as Tad pointed out, just saying "we're sorry we got caught being stupid."

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Dan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:51:32 -0000

As Tad says, that's not an apology. There's no apology in it.

They also haven't retracted their legal threats.

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

MrBabyMan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:46:08 -0000

Yay Scott!

This was a mini-landmark in blogger's rights. Way to stick to your guns!

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Jeremy Pepper — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:14:30 -0000

Well, at some corporations you do work with the legal teams - but mostly the legal team looking over press releases to make sure that all statements are true and can be defended.

It's why you rarely see a public company calling itself the best, but one of the best - you always have that quantifier.

The other way - not so much, but would save some heart aches at the end of the day.

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

John Hell — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:41:57 -0000

It's like buying bullets at a gun store, and the owner getting pissed when you rob him. Good for you Scott. Hold on to that letter, it may get you out of "jail" some day.

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Russell Nelson — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:39:08 -0000

Oh, you were WAY too kind to them. You should have waited a few days, to give the rest of us a chance to put up OUR blog pages commenting on the Blue Polo Blogging Affair. The surest way to get somebody to do something on the Internet is to tell them they can't do it.

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Dan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:30:39 -0000

Ahh.. I love America. Shoot first and ask questions later. What happened to research?

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Drew — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:20:40 -0000

Now if only they would permit photography in their stores - you can buy a camera there, but they'll ask you to leave for using it.

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Jason DeRusha — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:56:47 -0000

I'm a reporter for Minneapolis' WCCO-TV, and placed a call to PR this morning... they called me back a couple hours ago, and told me they were backpedaling on your C&D letter.

My story will air at 6pm, and will show up in the video viewer of my blog, wcco.com/jasonblog

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Tad — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:56:43 -0000

â€œWe apologize for sending you the demand letterâ€ = Apology.

â€œWeâ€™re sorry for sending you the demand letterâ€ = Apology.

â€œWe regret sending you the demand letterâ€ = â€œWe wish that we hadnâ€™t sent you the demand letter (because it was probably not legally appropriate and weâ€™re now looking a little stupid) but weâ€™re not in any way admitting that it might have been wrong.â€ ~= Apology.

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Alexa Clark — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:40:17 -0000

Good for them for paying attention... if not initially, at least when you poked them.

Re: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

Dan Shick — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:23:27 -0000

Now all we have to do is reasset Improv Everywhere's rights to sell that shirt! A harder battle, I fear.