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It's not just their spokesperson that needs a good smackdown. Any organization's management that endorses the "rabid dog" technique for dealing with people obviously doesn't realize it's never going to grow beyond it's miniscule self by acting in that fashion.
It takes an extremely ignorant and short-sighted individual to allow a pissant employee to act that way in public. Acting like a 2nd grade schoolyard bully is really scary...in 2nd grade. Now it's just puffery raised to an art form.
But all is not lost; If, as Lee says, their big customers are Playboy and Penthouse then APIC will not be around much longer when those places go under. APIC is just a bunch of blowhards with no legal standing whatsoever. They can't initiate a lawsuit since they're not the holders of the copyright...hell as far as I know theyre not even lawyers. It's really easy to write a bunch of letters pretending to be "the law" when your target audience is clueless and can't defend themselves. All it takes is someone with a little more brains than the average content thief to realize this.
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