Universal tries to claim it’s illegal to email their employees
‘A blogger named Gerard Jones has posted the email addresses of thousands of agents, producers and executives on a site called EveryoneWhosAnyone.com, breaking down the iron curtain between practicing Hollywoodites and the rabble that aspire to knock them off their respective blocks. Screenwriters and other budding creatives have apparently been flooding the agents and execs on the list with email inquiries. Now Universal (predictably, if baselessly) is crying “spam attack”, and is trying to get Jones’ domain host to force him to remove the information. [..]
His full exchange with Universal’s counsel is posted here, and it’s great. “”If your Gestapo tactics succeed in getting my website shut down,” Jones warns, “GE and its subsidiaries will be the laughing stock of generations of freedom loving Americans. “Imagination at work.” Ha! Good luck.” He then slags Universal’s counsel off as “some corporate chick lawyer” and accuses her of living in “a solipsistic tree fort”.’
