extortion

I say this after his extortion racket last year [1].

"Oh, I don't know, the $20,000 'offer' which is tantamount to extortion?

It is naked extortion covered by a thin veneer of lawyering.

And I noticed that all the doctors sold out within days too - and that the last few that had some stock could request extortion prices for their stock.

Presto: Blackmail, shakedown, extortion, recruit as an informer or a mole, etc.

Apple's approach of "threatening lawsuit" for patent infringement is not tactful, but not extortion either.

Shouldn't that be regarded as extortion?Would love to hear an expert opinion on why this exchange even took place in any traceable from.

I have no idea if extortion is what's happening here versus simple lulzseekers or a grudge someone holds against them, but I wouldn't be surprised.

A company that doesn't want managerial extortion can implement Valve-style open allocation, but few do.

One common characteristic of extortion is the use of threats, that is, an express intention to inflict injury, loss, or some other bad consequence on another person.

"> "In the United States, extortion may also be committed as a federal crime across a computer system, phone, by mail or in using any instrument of interstate commerce.

It also curbs the brand of extortion, so routine in American law as almost to have lost its ethical taint, by which lawyers use the costs of the process itself, or the risk of a fluke outcome found in any trial, to strong-arm their opponents into settlement.

May be...* DPR was ready to pay friendlychemist upto $150K* BUT DPR was also afraid it'd lead to more extortion* DPR knew redandwhite was same as friendlychemist or an associate of hisBased on these assumptions, DPR's move to pay redandwhite was really DPR paying friendlychemist while also communicating the length to which he is willing to go to deal with extortionists.