The JP stuff is tough. A lot of money--and fights about money--is mixed up in the controversy. People should try and separate the business stuff (pay, ownership of ip, fights about contracts with GMs) from the abuse stuff. Right now they're being mixed together in an unhelpful way. Where there's money there's conflict. But conflict about money is not evidence of abusive behavior.
I never followed RP, but I was a big fan of state of the game back in the day. Makes me sad tho think that JP was potentially abusing people.
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A C&D is just a letter--Evidence that you've consulted a lawyer. I don't think it's fair to hold using a C&D against someone unless they have truly no basis for issuing it in the first place. It doesn't have any legally binding effect. (Source: lawyer) in fact a cease-and-desist letter can do more to the sender than the receiver, binding the sender to a specific position based on estoppel. If someone accused you of being racist in public and you believed it was totally false you would probably send a cease-and-desist letter too.
Slightly offT: Kaitlyn using logs from Geoff, without context makes me nervous. Geoff can't speak anymore. I wish she would just lay out her case in one place and let it speak for itself.
