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He went out of his way to paint Quasi as a target and fucked himself over in the long run by doing so. In any sensible suit of this kind, you'd never include the site owner unless you have blatant, unambiguous evidence that they committed a crime against you. You just subpoena them for the IPs of the individuals you might actually have a case against and they'll have no reason not to hand them over. It's why folks who run sites like these regularly advise users to watch their own backs. Brinton's argument for naming Quasi as Doe 1 was pathetic and utterly contrived and they never managed to jump that hurdle in court.It's easy to forget that aspect of the lolsuit. It was so clearly intended as an intimidation tactic to get quasi to fold and shut down the site. I remember think at the time 'it was fun while it lasted' since I was certain quasi wouldn't wanna deal with the headache/expense of a lawsuit just to keep a website for a few hundred autists running. I'm glad he did though since we would've missed out on so much hilarity, including Apostlegate.
It's clear from Apostlegate that Rick expected Quasi to bow out and was surprised to learn that our Mughal master had the funds to defend his rights for so long. He thought everyone here was a bum like him who could only dream of taking legal action using loaned money. He thought wrong and now he will have to pay his (legally determined not to be) abuser.