scoreman

I am curious, are you an adult webmaster in the USA? Cause if you are I think you are making a huge mistake. This is the best deal you have been offered in a long time and you dont even realize it.

There is some confusion about the FSC actions in this thread. Misinformation really.

Centurion, the agreement with the DOJ is binding and absent some real misrepresentation by the FSC to the DOJ the deal is rock solid safe. They are not going to cancel this deal because they can't, such agreements have endless caselaw support for holding the Govt to their promises.

Besterman, come Sat at 2pm if you are not an FSC member you are eligible for prosecution. You can believe what you want, but the DOJ is not limited in prosecuting non FSC members. Whether they do or don't its a real crap shoot. You feel like gambling high stakes???? because I really think it doesnt get much higher than this.

As Ben-2257 points out folks the hearing yesterday was for a TRO. Emphasis on Temporary . Repeatedly today I have seen many many intelligent webmasters say that they would have rather seen them pursue the TRO. I believe the FSC would have won that hearing but what if they didnt? They settled for a known result which won us over seven times the amount of time a win at a TRO would have won us. Do you still like the TRO option now?

People seemed pissed that the FSC is basically requiring that you ante up a small part of the bill to share in the benefits. And I do mean SMALL. Full blown litigation with oral arguments, hearings, testimony, motion work, memoranda etc etc costs huge sums. At least several hundred thousand to go all the way and thats a very low estimate.

The more I think about this the more I am convinced that should the FSC and by its nature that means ALL OF US in the biz prevail in this matter, I think that the settlement yesterday will be seen as the key turning point in this litigation. I say this because the way this has gone down, its forcing USA webmasters to take a stand and either say you are with us or you are by yourself. The settlement most of all created a huge cash inflow to the FSC and this in itself may be the one factor that in the end will be seen as the key thing that allowed us to prevail.

We have the firm of Sirkin,Cambria, Schwartz,Kingsley,Wilcox, Gross,Covert and Deal, who out there has a more experienced firm than this collection of minds? And to retain this firm you are looking at entry price starting at $300 a year. Honestly, this is the best deal I have seen in my entire life on retaining legal defense. People should be focusing on the value that joining the FSC offers you. Even if you have many reasons why you don't like the FSC, I just am floored that adult webmasters in the USA can't see that this is the best deal they will ever get for legal representation and jump on this deal before it expires in about 16 hrs from now.

This has been a long post. I dont blame you if you dont read it all.

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