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by vorpalhex 1720 days ago
When I was a freelancer, I was warned by my legal help that taking a businesses site offline in response to non-payment was legally risky. There was a chance of being sued for disrupting their business.

I wonder if there are grounds for a (reasonable) legal suit here. Anyone in the know that can fill us in?
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unyttigfjelltol 1720 days ago
You're talking about self-help that isn't in a contract, right? The OP is talking about self-help developer account suspension that presumably is a right listed in the applicable TOS.
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tazjin 1720 days ago
> I wonder if there are grounds for a (reasonable) legal suit here. Anyone in the know that can fill us in?

If this was this company's only revenue stream, chances are they can't survive until such a lawsuit has dragged out to the end.

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hollerith 1720 days ago
That's OK: then any settlement gets distributed to the ex-company's shareholders.

(Of course some entity needs to fund the lawsuit: if the company cannot, and the lawyers will not take it on contingency, then the shareholders would need to.)

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