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Bubba the Love Sponge Listening Thread December 10-14, 2012
The suing for 300 million is a bit misleading. It was a suit claiming the xm merger subscriptions counted as Sirius subscriptions or not and having the legal system interpret the contract. The courts just about hobbled over backwards for Sirius in their judgment.
Stern's contract didn't specify subscribers specifically subscribing for him, his contract didn't define those people, it was simply "subscribers". So the court basically created this subset of subscribers that were a result of stern and stated that they have access to stern.
Then they looked at the gained xm subscriptions and said "they don't have access to stern so they aren't a result of him".
When I read it I was shocked at how liberal they were with the contract's interpretation rather than what going by what was written. It was as if sirius's lawyers wrote the decision.
The suing for 300 million is a bit misleading. It was a suit claiming the xm merger subscriptions counted as Sirius subscriptions or not and having the legal system interpret the contract. The courts just about hobbled over backwards for Sirius in their judgment.
Stern's contract didn't specify subscribers specifically subscribing for him, his contract didn't define those people, it was simply "subscribers". So the court basically created this subset of subscribers that were a result of stern and stated that they have access to stern.
Then they looked at the gained xm subscriptions and said "they don't have access to stern so they aren't a result of him".
When I read it I was shocked at how liberal they were with the contract's interpretation rather than what going by what was written. It was as if sirius's lawyers wrote the decision.
Something I didn't quite get is what counts as an "HS generated subscriber." By how I interpreted it, I wouldn't have counted because I didn't sign up as part of some special promotion.
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