“Reputation Defender”?

by Richard Kostelanetz (March 2013)

Nikki Catsouras from about 300 of some 400 Internet sites hosting them.”

cyberlaw specialist on the faculty of Cardozo Law School, commented that when contacted in that fashion, ‘most people will take materials down just to avoid the hassle of dealing with possible litigation.'” The converse truth, however, is that Fertik's company can't affect those immune to threats of lawyer thuggery, because they have no vulnerable assets, they can circulate the revelations to other websites, they are professional writers whom other writers will routinely support, or, say, they will soon die.

After Rosetta Stone issued stock at $18 apiece, its shares rose to $32 or so only to sink since to near $11.00 recently, somewhat in response to reported losses. I now suspect that the RS advertisements were meant less to sell their bum product than to impress listeners wealthy enough to purchase the stock. After all, promoters of a bum product can make money only by paying themselves exorbitant salaries and then by selling the shares they awarded themselves before the product went public.

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