On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:46:41 -0600, The Daring Dufas wrote:

On 11/29/2010 3:07 PM, Robert Green wrote:
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Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If you need HDMI cables, go to Amazon and buy the $4 ones. They
works as well as the $30+ cords. When I had my DirecTV setup, the
installer left me a couple of extras also.

Avoid Monster Cable. Get Blue Jean cable. Here's why:

" I say this because my observation has been that Monster Cable
typically operates in a hit-and-run fashion. Your client threatens
litigation, expecting the victim to panic and plead for mercy; and
what follows is a quickie negotiation session that ends with payment
and a licensing agreement. Your client then uses this collection of
licensing agreements to convince others under similar threat to
accede to its demands. Let me be clear about this: there are only
two ways for you to get anything out of me. You will either need to
(1) convince me that I have infringed, or (2) obtain a final
judgment to that effect from a court of competent jurisdiction. "

Read the whole thing:
http://www.audioholics.com/news/indu...jeans-strikes-
back

A great letter. I've saved a copy for "boiler plating" in the
future. I really, really would like to see the outrageous and
nonsensical claims Monster has been making for year dealt with in
court with expert witnesses who would tear them a new output port.
Sadly, I have friends that believe that paying 10 times what a cable
is worth makes it somehow ten times better. )-:

I'm guessing if Monster is stupid enough to proceed, they might very
well end up having to admit, in court, that they are 98% hype and
nothing more.

It's worse. Monster Cable even threatened to sue one "Vermonster Day
Care" for using the trademarked word in their name!
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/200...03446477.shtml

The problem is that enough lawyer-fearing recipients of these threat
letters enter into settlements rso that companies like Monster actually
start believing they are in the right. That is right until they run
into someone who *won't* settle and Monster makes the mistake of
litigating, where the rubber meets the road. I'll bet Monster folds
like a cheap suit when that happens because they can't afford to lose
and set a damaging precedent.

It will be interesting to see where the Blue Jean Cable "threatfest"
ends up. I seen Monster getting chased out by villagers with torches.

--
Bobby G.



I wonder if they could or would sue my brother for his handle, "Uncle
Monster"? The name was given to him by a four year old back in 1986 and
it stuck.

TDD

What about the Monster energy drink?
http://www.monsterenergy.com/





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