In With A Bang, Out With A Whimper: Calacanis Walks From TechCrunch Lawsuit

The PR stunt/blatant shakedown that so many tech journalists fell for is now apparently over. Just one business day after the conclusion of Jason Calacanis' Launch Conference he's filed a court document asking for the dismissal of the lawsuit he filed last summer. This wasn't a settlement. In fact, we didn't know anything about it until our lawyers got a copy in the mail. What really disappoints me is how gullible our competitors are. For example, the otherwise respectable Atlantic wrote an entire story on our refusal to cover his event. And while I think that it would be more than appropriate for us to skip an event where the organizer is suing us, actively trashing us and "borrowing" the TechCrunch name, we never had any such policy. One TechCrunch editor attended, writers were attending via the free live video stream, and we covered the startups we thought were noteworthy. We certainly never told anyone they would never be covered on TechCrunch if they attended. The reporter just bought whatever Jason was feeding him.

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