spamigation

spamigation
 n.— «Spamigation: The abuse of bulk legal action. Filing lawsuits in bulk (as in the RIAA filesharing lawsuits or DirecTV smartcard lawsuits) without taking care to assure all defendants are actually at fault. As such, some defendants are bound to be entirely innocent, but this doesn’t matter because you don’t really plan to take any to trial.» —“New word: Spamigation” by Brad Templeton Brad Ideas Apr. 22, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

3 comments
  • Before I clicked on the term to see how it was used, I assumed that the two terms being melded were “spam” and “fumigation”, thus spamigation would be a method of “killing off” spam, so to speak. Hurray!

    Alack, the second term is “litigation”. That’s the problem with “meld terms”, they can lead a person in the wrong direction. Oh well, it still manages to embrace an interesting concept, and anything that sets a fire to the RIAA is something I’m all for. Hurray!

Further reading

Cool Beans (episode #1570)

If you speak a second or third language, you may remember the first time you dreamed in that new tongue. But does this milestone mean you’re actually fluent? And a couple’s dispute over the word regret: Say you wish you’d been able...

Kiss the Cow (episode #1567)

An anadrome is a word that forms a whole new word when you spell it backwards. For example, the word “stressed” spelled backwards is “desserts.” Some people’s first names are anadromes. There’s the girl named Noel...