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by philsquared_
792 days ago
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A c&d is a nice way of asking you to shutdown before they sue you. Most companies will not bother unless they think they have a case against you. Your choices are shut down or stay up and hire a lawyer to defend you in the coming case against you. Even if they do not have a strong case you will end up being in court a while. Keep in mind you have a source of income now but what may happen is they sue you then release their own api and cut your revenue at the same time. It's risky to build products on other peoples businesses especially if they dont want you to. I am not just talking out my ass. I was in the same situation on one of my projects and chose to shut down when I saw others going through lawsuits. At the very least you need to speak to a lawyer and make sure you can win a case. In this specific instance you are providing a product that interfaces with their product. Your product allowing breaking TOS is likely grounds for their lawsuit. For similar cases look up bot manufacturers in World of Warcraft vs Blizzard. They won all their cases by saying the code that is in the ram is their property. Edit: I also wanted to add that even if you are somehow not against their tos right now they can always update their tos to not allow your type of service.. |
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Thanks so much for taking the time to write this
Yeah if they do release an API I’m totally done. I honestly thought I’d have 3-6 months before they did but that’s not the case.
Do you see a world where I might be able to reconcile and have a positive outcome?