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It's just with all of the case law on the issue you'd think these guys would know that they really don't have any legal ground to stand on. So they send these silly letters out to scare people that don't know any better.
When companies do this, instead of just looking like a company that doesn't care, they look like a company that doesn't have a clue and that wants to restrict free speech.
If they did bring a suit I would probably have good odds at winning a malicious litigation suit because of the many precedents and current case law about these kinds of sites. Anybody looked at ford-sucks.com? Compared to that my site could have been used as the company's sales brochure :-)
It's pretty damn difficult to win a defamation/libel case when the facts are there, and trademark law is very clear on fair use and free speech issues. Hell I didn't even use their trademark on the site and at the very top in bold print said the site was not associated with them. That pretty much makes trademark issues go bye-bye.
My father was a lawyer and a judge and I just get ticked when I hear about these kinds of tactics. We can't win but we can litigate them into submission.
Anyway, I fixed my generator, learned a lesson about a manufacturer and their product, and moved on to other things.
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