From Donald Morris from Dozier Internet Law in Virginia humans can learn a bit about freedom of speech in the USA in theory and practice. Donald Morris is a typical lawyer, whose firm is already well known for even prohibiting website visitors to view the html of the page and put for his client DirectBuy all his best together to threaten Justin Leonard from infomercialscam.com to bring out all the critical information about DirectBuy from people feeling fooled. Probably Donald Morris is a good lawyer and so he knows very well, that his ideas of free speech is not the same like it is written in the first amendment of the constituion of the USA.
So the idea of Donald Morris to forbid publishing his cease and desist letter with copyright arguments is easy to understand. This might bring up the question whether blackmail can be copyrighted and publishing of blackmail can be made illegal by the blackmailer in this way. Of course, for his funny letter, Donald Morris was to receive a catty answer (pdf).
The end of the lawyers work: the internet community in the whole world is reading his funny letter (pdf) and laughing about the scams of DirectBuy and their lawyer. As a cat I say thank you to Donald Morris and his clients from DirectBuy for this fine demonstration of the Streisand effect and recommend them to send more letters for further prove of the Streisand effect which is the best guarantee to the first amendment.
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Par·tei·buch n. German: Booklet with personal data and number to prove membership in a party
Mir erschließt sich nur nicht, wie die Herren diese abstruse Forderung zu kontrollieren gedenken. Jeder weiß doch, dass eine Seite, wenn sie einmal im Browser geladen wurde, automatisch auch im Cache des lokalen Rechners abgespeichert wurde. Die Ansicht des Quelltextes lässt sich also weder verhindern, noch überhaupt kontrollieren. Aber Rechtsanwälte haben es ja bekanntlich mit dem Denken nicht immer so und sorgen mit ihren realitätsfernen Äußerungen immer wieder für Spass und Unterhaltung.