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Quoted from Kyle of www.hardocp.com:
THG to Sue AMDMB.com:
As mentioned earlier, this editorial posted at AMDMB, chronicles Ryan Shrout's experience at a rather large LAN party this weekend. Here in the USA, we understand it to be our right to openly speak about our experiences in life, but quite possibly others do not feel that way.
Omid Rahmat of Tom's Guides Publishing, a.k.a TomsHardware.com, verified in an email to me that he made the following statements in reply to a reader's email explaining that he would not visit THG any more due to their recent actions.
-----Original Message-----
From: Omid Rahmat [mailtomid@removed.com]
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 8:41 AM
To: Name Removed
Subject: RE: MML2
Sorry to hear that, but Amdmb.com fabricated a story, and we gave as good as we got. We'll let the lawyers handle it.
If you choose to believe the amdmb.com version, fine, but we're not going to just sit there and have someone lie about us.
Omid Rahmat
Tom's Guides Publishing
www.tomshardware.com
Then also in another email:
It's bull, and no rebuttal required. We'll take them to court instead. They might get the message that way.
Omid Rahmat
Tom's Guides Publishing
www.tomshardware.com
It seems as though that is exactly what they intend to do as Omid called Ryan Shrout this morning around 11:45AM CST and verbalized that Tom's Guide Publishing would be having their lawyers send Ryan a letter explaining that they would be suing them for libel. Ryan, being a "poor college student" working on his EE degree does not have the funds needed to defend an action of this sort, it is our opinion that this action is to force Ryan's hand and make him take down his page that chronicles the events.
I have committed to Ryan that I will personally help him with funding his legal council so he will not have to fold with the almighty dollar being the deciding factor. We have also put him in direct contact with our attorney we keep on retainer that specializes in Intellectual Property matters. I think Ryan is telling the truth and should not be stifled.
The fact of the matter is that Omid was not present at the event and does not know what happened first hand. I would guess that Omid might be getting his information from parties that are now concerned with keeping their jobs. Also worth mentioning is that Ryan has some recorded audio of THG and AMD representatives saying some very interesting things to him that would be terribly embarrassing, if not downright damaging, should they be released publicly.
We have tried to contact AMD about this, this morning, but have not been successful.
As of posting this, I have received another mail from Omid making the following statement:
We will deal with Mr. Shrout through the appropriate legal channels, and leave it at that.
