Comments on: Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter

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Best Buy Cease & Desist Traffic Stats | Laughing Squid — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:00:00 +0000

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A Special Surprise Holiday Gift From Neighborhoodies | Laughing Squid — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:57:20 +0000

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Uncle Bear » Blog Archive » Random News Table — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:18:27 +0000

[...] Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter This is amazing. Best Buyâ€™s legal department has just sent us an apology letter for sending yesterdayâ€™s Cease & Desist letter regarding our blog coverage of the Improv Everywhere Best Buy Blue Polo Shirts parody. (tags: corpolitical asshat) [...]

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:12:25 +0000

I can only suppose they were like, “you’re saying this guy Scott Beale has HOW many readers?? That many?? Oops. Uh, better clean this up, and quick!!”

Kinda like ticking off BoingBoing. A supremely poor marketing decision.

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Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:09:31 +0000

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links for 2007-12-14 « Technobabble 2.0 — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:25:51 +0000

[...] Best Buy Apologies For Sending Cease & Desist Letter | Laughing Squid Laughing squid received a cease and desist and then an apology. (tags: socialmedia) [...]

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Flickr Adds New Stats Feature | Laughing Squid — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:54:26 +0000

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By: Shop at Circuit City

Shop at Circuit City — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:57:58 +0000

Too little, too late.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:06:05 +0000

You should consider a complaint with his local bar. Dumb lawyers shouldn’t practice law.

By: ech

ech — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:22:32 +0000

Um. They regret sending the letter, but have they withdrawn it? I don’t see that anywhere.

You know, I regretted having to put down a dog of mine, but I had it done anyway……

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:00:56 +0000

I’m glad that Best Buy owned up to their mistake. Most big companies these days would just deny they made a mistake and act like they are somehow above apologizing for an error. If anyone from Best Buy is reading this: VERY good move.

By: Rob’s blog of posts » Best Buy shirts, and no pants

Rob’s blog of posts » Best Buy shirts, and no pants — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:14:24 +0000

[...] Buy apologized to Scott Beale for the C&D letter they sent him regarding Improv Everywhere’s parody [...]

By: Mick Liubinskas

Mick Liubinskas — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:57:06 +0000

Wow, pretty fast moving legal department. They were obviously expecting some schtick in response.

Way to let that zoom on by and crash into the window LS.

Mick

P.S. I’d also like to apologise for drinking your beer while your back was turned at the SF Beta event back in August…. I respect your 21st Amendment Rights.

By: Jeremy Duffy - Consumer Advocate » Best Buy Tries to Snuff Coverage of News By Bloggers

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:59:50 +0000

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By: Jeremy Duffy

Jeremy Duffy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:56:36 +0000

Awesome. I guess I don’t have to worry about them coming after me for blogging about YOU now :D

By: JMHawkins

JMHawkins — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:04:28 +0000

Well, they did half the right thing here. The other half would be stating “We are taking serious steps to insure our legal representation does not make such mistakes in the future.” Otherwise they are just, as Tad pointed out, just saying “we’re sorry we got caught being stupid.”

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:51:32 +0000

As Tad says, that’s not an apology. There’s no apology in it.

They also haven’t retracted their legal threats.

By: Mr. BabyMan

Mr. BabyMan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:46:08 +0000

Yay Scott!

This was a mini-landmark in blogger’s rights. Way to stick to your guns!

By: Jeremy Pepper

Jeremy Pepper — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:14:30 +0000

Well, at some corporations you do work with the legal teams – but mostly the legal team looking over press releases to make sure that all statements are true and can be defended.

It’s why you rarely see a public company calling itself the best, but one of the best – you always have that quantifier.

The other way – not so much, but would save some heart aches at the end of the day.

By: John Hell

John Hell — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:41:57 +0000

It’s like buying bullets at a gun store, and the owner getting pissed when you rob him. Good for you Scott. Hold on to that letter, it may get you out of “jail” some day.