As much as I hate seeing friends of mine (authors and editors) being screwed, the sadist in me hopes EC is stupid enough to start suing people. That means they'll be forced to go through the discovery process. Which, of course, will be made public as part of the lawsuit.
Meaning once and for all, their asshattery will be exposed in ways they never dreamed possible.
It's all fine and well for them to sling threats of lawsuits around and try to scare authors with them. But what the authors being threatened need to realize is that when EC is proven to have been guilty of malfeasance, they can then go after EC for attorney fees, etc.
Which they'll likely never recoup, but still, ALLLLL that information will then be made public, opening EC up to lawsuits from how many other authors and editors who've been screwed out of royalties.
Sheesh, you'd think that EC would have learned a looooong time ago the fastest way to shut authors up is to give them their rights back and send them on their way with a non-disclosure agreement to shut them up.
But then again, as we're seeing, EC isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the drawer.
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