RE: [cobalt-users] Cobalt to provide compensation for server hack?

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> This is *precisely* the point I've been arguing: in the USA, too many
> people (not all, not even most, just too many) equate "poor service =>
> lawsuit" where that should only be "poor service => don't buy from
> them."
>

No. They equate defective product => lawsuit.
I've never seen a case where someone received damages, (except maybe in
small claims court for the price of a dinner), for poor service. I'm sure
you understand that in the US and many other countries you can sue anyone
for anything. It doesn't mean your case will even get to court. It just
makes good headlines when the lawsuit and not the details are told.

> Now, if you can make a good case that Cobalt has caused you damage and
> that you are, as Dan wishes to think, just one of their victims, then
> the legal system is there to help you punish them. *Then* you try to get
> them to pay through the nose for what they did to you. And one of the
> things you should be required to do in a lawsuit is demonstrate that you
> have not yourself contributed to the damages caused to you (by, for
> example, negligence of your responsibilities).

I've never before seen someone using an appliance precisely as it was sold,
advertised and fully according to the printed instruction manual, accused of
being negligent. I have on the other hand seen companies that sold defective
appliances accused of negligence.
Whether or not the Cobalt servers or the software Cobalt used were defective
has yet to be proved.
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Dan Kriwitsky