Originally posted by Longhornfan1024
Disclaimer: I am not acting as a lawyer in this post. I am only posting my knowledge as a layperson.
The only legal reason not to respond is that GLB might say something that will be used as evidence against them in future litigation. The only privacy issues that they could claim with catch's disclosures are trade secrets or confidential information if he had a contractual agreement to keep the information he learned on the job confidential. Otherwise, he is free to disclose what he wants. As someone stated earlier, he is essentially judgment proof due to his financial situation, so the only remedy they could be looking for in a lawsuit is an injunction against him disclosing the above allegedly confidential information.
Assuming he did not sign any type of confidentiality agreement and he is not disclosing any trade secrets (though GLB certainly has trade secrets, nothing currently on his website could qualify as a trade secret), the refusal to offer a substantive response just indicates that he offered a number of truths on the website that they do not want to respond to because they would either have to (1) acknowledge the truth of his assertions or (2) lie in order to deny the truth of those assertions. At this point, their reaction to catch seems to be more bully tactics than anything with a real bite. Depending on how financially viable Warrior Games really is, they could try to use litigation to put him in a money bind. But if what they told him is true, they don't have the financial capability to use the cost of litigation as a motivator to keep him from talking.
In the end, anything other than a substantive response to his claims as well as more transparency for the user base is the only way GLB can save face in this matter. But given its history of being incredibly secretive and using KGB tactics to silence any information they don't want out, I doubt that's likely.
Yeah...Bort and Co. are rocking this situation like a team of attorneys. With the utmost professionalism and due diligence...and all their ducks are in a row.
What f*cking game have you been playing all these years?
