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Date: 12.31.99
[The following statement was posted by RTMark after a Wired news article reported that eToys would "not press" its lawsuit against etoy.-ag] RTMark is happy that the behemoth, eToys, has seen fit to temporarily pull its lawyers off the blood-scent of etoy.com, and to allow the art site to continue for a while with its existence. We are happy that after trying for weeks to convince the public that etoy.com was trying to confuse the public and blemish the wholesome eToys image, eToys is now forced to lie that its "intent was never to silence free artistic expression." We are happy that the torrent of public outrage and disgust has forced eToys into this ridiculous position. RTMark is sad, however, that etoy.com is stuck with the enormous fees it has had to pay its lawyers as its financial price--the other prices are incalculable--for temporarily continued survival. These fees are enormous to etoy, but would be trivial to eToys. We are sad that under American law, eToys has no obligation to help etoy.com recover from its unethical, absurd, and completely disgusting attack. RTMark is sad to be stuck, like everyone else, with its rage and only, in redress, an assertion by eToys that it is "moving away" from the suit. (They will not say they've dropped it.) We are so sad about this that we hope that eToys' stock value does indeed plummet all the way to zero point zero zero, and we do hope that people continue to attack this wretched entity with every means at their disposal. RTMark is surely most sad that while this case has scared eToys into momentarily relenting, there are countless other similar cases--some of them equally outrageous and equally cruel--that will not be resolved except in court, if the defendants can muster the financial and psychological strength to keep their cases alive. The law has not changed, and until it does, this case will at best make other corporations take trickier routes to their financial goals in the future. We can only hope that someday, people will wake up and rescind some laws protecting the power of these entities whose only desire, whose very nature, is to profit at any cost whatsoever.
http://rtmark.com/etoystatement.html
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