Aaron, I hold you in the highest regard, but this makes you look less than nice.
Essentially what you have done here is rat out a competitor who may have broken a law (how do you know they have not registered?), presumably because you are in competition, not because you are concerned for the well being of your fellow citizens.
If you really are not a 'fan of the laws' and you are just mad at having to obey them I think that you should stand up against those laws, rather than to rat out those that break them.
It's like someone driving 55 Mph on the highway calling the police because they're overtaken by someone else doing 60, after all, if you have to obey the law so should everybody else.
Technically you're in the right, but this leaves me with a weird taste, especially because you say you don't like those laws.
I don't think the intent here is to put others out of business. The intent is to force the legal system to clarify the rules for playing in a new disruptive game. In fact, if his plan succeeds, he will surely have many more competitors than the handful of companies at the fringes now. If the courts rule that the laws on the books regulating the industry are invalid, I'm sure Dwolla will thank him for suing them.
Besides,many Supreme Court cases originated with deliberately provocative lawsuits and/or violations of unclear or unjust laws.
I like to believe the motivation is not because of competitin, jealousy or holding a grudge, but because of a deliberate strategy to raise the stakes of the game and getting others, that should be concerned but aren't, involved when different companies can make a stand together, to change something that someone strongly believes is wrong.
Of course, you may disagree that it is worth the cost, but I don't feel there's any need to assume malicious intent.
False analogy. The guy doing 60mph does not compete with the one doing 55, and even if he was the reward is simply reaching his destination a few minutes earlier, not millions of $$$ that are at stake here.
So you confirm my suspicion that this is all about competition and not about equality before the law.
The analogy is predicated on both parties wanting to break the law, one does, the other doesn't.
It is then up to the authorities to establish that the law was indeed broken and to decide to prosecute.
Filing a complaint about a competitor breaking a law that you yourself say you do not agree with looks pretty sleazy to me.
Everybody can deal with this in their own way, some will break the law some will abide by it. In the end it is up to the authorities to decide who to go after. Some of those may decide to sue the state and try to get the law rescinded or changed.
No need for tactics like these. If this was a principled matter than the amount of money should not matter. The fact that there is a lot of money at stake is why this was done, not because of some other concern.
Basically the government and a law perceived as unjust by all parties involved are used to attack a competitor.
The whole reason this law exists in the first place is because large companies have managed to lobby to get this law on the books, what better end result for them than that would be competitors use it to destroy each other?
I'd happily agree with you if Aaron would have written that he agreed with those laws. If you think a law is unjust then I think that you should not be doing the authorities work for them.
Essentially what you have done here is rat out a competitor who may have broken a law (how do you know they have not registered?), presumably because you are in competition, not because you are concerned for the well being of your fellow citizens.
If you really are not a 'fan of the laws' and you are just mad at having to obey them I think that you should stand up against those laws, rather than to rat out those that break them.
It's like someone driving 55 Mph on the highway calling the police because they're overtaken by someone else doing 60, after all, if you have to obey the law so should everybody else.
Technically you're in the right, but this leaves me with a weird taste, especially because you say you don't like those laws.