[thelist] Fwd: Vanilla.com copyright

[Kathy Long]

Some of you wanted an update on the pirating issue. We sent a cease and 
desist and letter of intent to prosecute, and apparently that was 
enough to get the site removed. In addition, it looks like Mohnish 
"Vermin" has adversely affected his karma...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Patricia Rain <rain at vanilla.com>
> Date: Fri Mar 21, 2003  10:18:03 AM US/Pacific
>
>
> Word is spreading fast through the American vanilla industry to avoid 
> Mohnish Verma.  We now aren't sure whether he is a scam artist or not 
> as he has made very inconsistent offers of vanilla to industry people 
> that haven't made sense, rather as if he doesn't know what he's doing. 
>  At any rate, he's blacklisted here in the States which is probably as 
> effective a tool as any for punishing a pirate.