{"id":4205,"date":"2010-06-22T09:26:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T13:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2010-06-22T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T13:29:00","slug":"sparkly-legal-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/sparkly-legal-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparkly legal shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I indicated in a Twitter update <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nrusson\/statuses\/16717584784\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday<\/a>, the nice folks at ThinkGeek received their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/officially-our-bestever-cease.html\" target=\"_blank\">best-ever cease and desist letter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Recently we got the best-ever cease and desist letter. We&#8217;re no stranger to the genre, so what could possibly make this one stand out from the rest?<\/p>\n<p>First, it&#8217;s <em>12<\/em> pages long and very well-researched (except on one point); it even includes screengrabs of the offending item from our site. And we know they&#8217;re not messing around because they invested in the best and brightest legal minds.<\/p>\n<p>But what makes this cease and desist so very, very special is that it&#8217;s for a fake product we launched for April Fool&#8217;s day.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ThinkGeek-Unicorn-Meat.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ThinkGeek Unicorn Meat\" width=\"506\" height=\"344\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ThinkGeek-Unicorn-Meat.jpg 506w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ThinkGeek-Unicorn-Meat-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ThinkGeek-Unicorn-Meat-480x326.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I indicated in a Twitter update yesterday, the nice folks at ThinkGeek received their best-ever cease and desist letter: Recently we got the best-ever cease and desist letter. We&#8217;re no stranger to the genre, so what could possibly make this one stand out from the rest? First, it&#8217;s 12 pages long and very well-researched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57,9],"tags":[343,156,463],"class_list":["post-4205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-humour","category-law","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-fail","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-15P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4209,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}