On 3/17/16, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:

At 01:05 PM 3/17/2016, you wrote:

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FYI -- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160316/15292633927/how-apple-could-lose-...

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The court then ordered Levison to provide a more useful electronic copy, which then resulted in the $5,000/day fine for failing to live up to that, and then the closure of the site.

An Apple fine commensurate with Lavabit's revenue should end the daredevilry with investors' stakeholdings. Judges really like to takedown justice defiers as warning to potential emulators. Try to wear Levison's boots with a red dot on forehead.

Apple revenue for Q1 2016 was $75B. A fine of $1B a day should induce Apple's investors to stampede toward disinvestment, Apple to bankruptcy minimization, fragmented ATT, entrapped like RSA, Microsoft and IBM. Before the foot shooting calamity, Tim Cook is ordered to take a hike with platinum buyout to counsel risk-averse VCs aboard world-circling craft of detumescent billionaire playboys enjoying quasi-carnal pleasure in climate change, disease and population control, retro-2001 space travel, moist-dreaming of POTUS.

AAPL's stock price is up about 12+% on moderate volume in the 4+ weeks since the filing, more than enough time to for the news to date to reach price discovery.