FC: Doubleclick asks slashdot to yank story; more on lawsuit

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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> From: "Ira P. Rothken, Esq." <ira () techfirm com>
> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
> Subject: Re: Doubleclick sued for "violating privacy rights of Net users"
> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:10:00 -0800
>
> Declan,
>
> Thanks for the note...you should know that we did not sue for money
> damages - only injunctive relief to have Doubleclick stop the alleged unfair
> business practices. Any information you can provide to us to assist us in
> our investigation is appreciated :-)
>
> Ira P. Rothken, Esq.
> www.techfirm.com

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> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:17:52 -0800 (PST)
> From: Robin Miller <roblimo () yahoo com>
> Reply-To: roblimo () slashdot org
> Subject: Doubleclick Dumb PR Move
> To: declan () well com
>
> Wednesday Slashdot ran a small story about DoubleClick's
> user tracking tactics and linked to a USA Today story on
> the subject. Doubleclick's reaction? Here's the followup I
> posted on Slashdot Friday afternoon:
>
> Robin "roblimo" Miller
>  http://slashdot.org
>  http://andover.net
>
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>
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>          - Friday, January 28, 2 p.m. US EST
>
> Tuesday USA Today reporter Will Rodger wrote about
> DoubleClick. We linked to his story here. Wednesday
> afternoon a DoubleClick Corporate Communications person*
> called Andover.net Corporate Communications VP Janet Holian
> and asked her to remove our story and the link to USA
> Today.
>
> Janet passed the problem to me, since Andover has a very
> strict policy prohibiting Andover  corporate people from
> interfering in editorial decisions.
>
> I listened politely to the DoubleClick person, who told me
> USA Today's story was innacurate and we were wrong to link
> to it, and how she was calling journalists all over the
> country to tell them that the information in it was false
> and should not be relied upon. Then she requested that we
> pull the Slashdot story that linked to the USA Today story.
> No direct threats were made, but the words "refer this to
> our legal department" were said....
>
> URL: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/28/0917229
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