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Wait, how does it matter how much he makes? If it's allowed, it should be allowed regardless of how much he makes. If it's not, we have all witnessed cases where people not earning a cent were shut down by copyrighters and sometimes assigned outrageous damage numbers.

Google has the right to refuse to talk to you, however if they operate in a broadcast manner, i.e serving anyone who comes, they are not entitled to use law's power to block people from doing what they don't like. They could make a filter on the site that would not serve specific calls, etc. - but C&D is quite a different matter I think. It's like saying "I'm not going to the movies with you" vs. restraining order. I don't think Google is entitled to the restraining order just because they don't like how somebody uses their broadcasts.



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