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by ahoka 953 days ago
Didn’t you basically blackmail the guy?
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From a legal standpoint blackmail requires the "receipt of money or valuable thing". Because the thing being received is an even exchange of goods already agreed to by both parties, and the threat on not receiving is not an illegal action in itself, it is not likely or plausibly blackmail.

-not a lawyer, just work with too many of them

Pressuring to follow up on a made deal does not really count as blackmail imo.
Pressure and coercion is part and parcel of existing
your point?