Tactical Rifles, Inc.
Feb19
If you’r unaware of what this is about, here ya go. TL;DR: TacticalRifles.net is a budding company for firearms that wants to SUE YOU FOR SLANDER AND LIBEL. Yes, you. Reading this. You bastard. How dare you? You better have a good lawyer.
Jesus fucking christ.
You keep using that word.
I don’t think it means what you think it means.
What word?
Slander=spoken defamation. Libel=written or printed defamation. One act cannot be both.
Besides which, it would need to be malicious and untrue.
Man, they dug a DEEP fucking hole on this one.
In the U.S. (Which probably has the toughest-to-sue-by defamation laws in the world), it not only has to be malicious and untrue, you have to demonstrate measurable material harm arising from the act of defamation. (And not, say, from the actual low quality of the product.)
In theory a written web review with an embedded video review could pull off the libel-slander double whammy.
Only if there was intentionally and maliciously false information given in the review.
Probably would have been easier and cheaper for Mick to find a muzzle brake from a rifle which fires the same cartridge diameter and just screw it on the end.
Not if it were the barrel threads that were cut too deep, then every attachment would be loose.
Haven’t these people heard of the Streisand Effect?
I remember those threads. Everyone kind of said wow at the build quality and let it go. But it was when Tacrifles came to the forums with a few regular members as backers and started defending themselves that people got a laugh, then the lawsuit… well… Snipers hide can be a wonderful place of information, humor, advice, and general gun porn…
But those guys are also some of the best trolls and shit talkers that have gathered on the internet when they have to be lol
Happens more often than one thinks.
Example: https://torrentfreak.com/game-devs-abuse-copyright-to-censor-negative-youtube-review-131021/
True, but the publishers of Garry’s Incident backed down, once they realized they stepped in a steaming pile. They apologized and retracted the copyright claim and the video was reinstated. Through the Streisand Effect, Total Biscuit got a significant boost to his subscriber base and their attempt at strong arm censorship backfired.
Now, “FunCreators” didn’t learn from Wild Games’ mistake and is trying the same stunt with Guise of the Wolf.
BURN the HERITIC!
It is times like these where i wish Judges could remove a lawyers bar license for 6 months due to frivolous lawsuits
Sounds like Smith Enterprises….
So, just what are “a real Tactical Rifles act” and “doing a David Rooney turn” going to mean? I’m guessing the former will be related to this: http://weloveyouso.com/wp-content/uploads/peanuts3.jpg and the latter to this: http://gb.fotolibra.com/images/previews/517314-throwing-teddy-out-of-cot.jpeg
… but I could be wrong.
I am so happy companies like Harley Davidson don’t know what an interweb is. Or apparently BMW… or KTM… or Honda…
Bitching about shit is… America!!
Saw this over on bearingarms yesterday. Pretty crappy craftsmanship for a fucklot of money.
Start a Yelp campaign! 😛
Unfortunately Florida’s anti-SLAPP (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation) legislation is too narrow to cover this, so a countersuit is unlikely.
@Mad David – You’re correct. Slander is verbal, libel is published. I have been libeled, but I cannot legally prove it. 1) The comments were malicious. 2) The comments were easily proven as untrue. 3) The comments were presented in written form during a city council meeting. But 4) I cannot prove that my reputation was injured, as the person making the comments couldn’t get a Southern Baptist congregation to even consider Lucifer MIGHT NOT be pure as the driven snow.
This tactic used to be called a SLAPP – Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation… And yeah, that is exactly what it sounds like – Slapping folks whom say something that you don’t like, with the intent that more people will hesitate to talk up. It’s a dirty, dirty tactic, but one that’s been used many many times. However, you have to be willing to have your bluff called, or have VERY deep pockets, if you want to try a SLAPP.
I wonder… can Sniper’s Hide plausibly turn the tables on TacRifles..? Seems to me that there’s a First Amendment issue at stake here. Of course, I’m no lawyer, but it seems to me that there should be more serious consequences to this than just public humiliation for TacRifles.
Dang – Left this up in the browser too long, seems my question has been answered…
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