On double standards

Here's a thought for you.  Now that Karsten has gone public with Russ Brown's involvement in making the MFX sonic, let's consider something that Neill Gorton has previous raised in connection to me:

"Firstly and most importantly – I have no interest in or desire to enter in to any debate with CT or anyone else who wishes to take up his ‘cause’ and I have numerous reasons for this. My primary reason is that CT is running a business making illegal unlicensed replicas and infringing my license, a license I have to pay for and meet many conditions on. He is stealing from me in effect. Why on earth would I want to then have a cozy chat with him about anything! I have nothing to say to him because he is doing everything he can to damage my legitimate business. He is attempting to take business away from me and damage my livelihood and livelihood of my employees by trading illegally while also making libelous accusations about me. What on earth makes anyone think I’d then feel obliged to communicate with him never mind be asked to ‘defend myself’ against these ridiculous claims from someone who is so blatantly ripping me off. He's simply making these claims solely as a means of propaganda in order to try and claim a bigger share of a market he has no legitimate right to!!!. Would you entertain a guy who had burgled your house and stole your TV if he came knocking on your door a few days later asking you to show him how to operate the remote control?"

Ok. Let's put it another way. He's using my unlicenced status as the primary tool with which to beat me with. My heart fucking bleeds for you Neill.

But how seriously can you take the bleating of a man who practices such blatant double standards? He is using for manufacture Russ Brown, a man who is as bad as I am: an unlicenced prop maker who has offered and still offers for sale replicas of the classic sonic screwdrivers.

Tell me Neill, how would Sixteen 12, the owner of the classic sonic licence, feel about you supporting a maker of sonics that "is running a business making illegal unlicensed replicas and infringing [their] license, a license [they] have to pay for and meet many conditions on.", a maker that is "stealing from [them] in effect" and a maker who "is attempting to take business away from [them] and damage [their] livelihood and livelihood of [their] employees by trading illegally "?

It's not as if you can plead ignorance as everyone and his dog knows about Russ Brown and his sonics as he has runs of them happening all the time on the RPF, Gallifrey Base and the Prydon Academy.

Funnily enough I offered on the old Outpost Gallifrey to do these for Gorton. He never took me up. I imagine because I was 'unlicenced'. Since finding out he really doesn't give a fuck about licences, that choice was probably the worse choice he ever made.