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Nilay Patel (2:16)
Welcome to the vergecast, the flagship podcast of unfair questions. We ask them, we steadfastly refuse to answer them. This is what we do here. I'm your friend David Pearce. Neil Aptel is here.
David Pierce (2:26)
You know, I've been deposed like two or three times in the course of running the Verge.
Nilay Patel (2:29)
Have you really? I've never even thought about that.
David Pierce (2:31)
There's a very funny transcript of me being deposed for what? The important one was there was a game streaming service that Sean had called defunct and they sued us saying that they were not defunct and that don't
Nilay Patel (2:48)
put it in the newspaper that we're defunct.
David Pierce (2:51)
And it's a long story that ends with the judge in Delaware realized that some obscure, obscure law of republication did not have enough precedent, so they allowed the case to go forward so that they could say that us linking to an old story in which we had called the company defunct did not constitute a republication that would then bring it into the statute of limitations. Oh, wow, this took six years.
