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![On the very same day Defendants filed their opposition to WPE’s preliminary injunction
motion, arguing that an injunction should not issue because WPE has suffered no harm and certainly
none caused by Defendants, Defendant Matthew Mullenweg announced from a public stage, with a
wide grin on his face and a microphone in his hand:
[S]ince this started [with WPE] they’ve had uh, we estimate tens of thousands of
customers leave. . . . So, um you know, I think over the next few weeks, they’re actually
gonna lose far more than 8% of their business . . . we’re at war with them.
We’re . . . going to go brick by brick and take . . . take every single one of their
customers . . . if they weren’t around guess what? . . . We’d happily have those
customers, and in fact we’re getting a lot of them.
Against the backdrop of Mullenweg’s dispositive admissions, it is difficult to take Defendants’
opposition arguments seriously. But it is easy to reject them as they are, charitably put, meritless and
uninformed. Defendants admit they have harmed WPE, as they set out to do, and have made multiple
threats of future harm as well. Under controlling precedent, the type of harm Defendants have chosen
to inflict—such as customer losses and reputational damage—is indeed considered irreparable.
Nor do Defendants’ merits arguments fare any better, as they too appear to have been written
in an alternate universe where Defendants’ actions and admissions do not exist. Defendants’ conduct
reflects a textbook case of attempted extortion, intentional interference, and unfair competition. WPE
is likely to succeed on all three of its claims presented here.
Defendants’ admissions also confirm that the injunction WPE seeks would impose no burden
or hardship whatsoever on Defendants. Indeed, when asked recently about the pendency of these
preliminary injunction proceedings before this Court, Mullenweg nonchalantly brushed them off: “[I]f
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![WP Engine also claims harm deriving from a supposed interruption of its users’ ability to “access[] wordpress.org resources through [WP Engine’s] administrat[ive] panel, which includes downloading WordPress themes and plugins… from the administrative panel.” Pl.’s Mot. 10-11 (emphasis added). As previously explained, at no time was WP Engine or any third party prevented from accessing, updating or downloading any WordPress software, themes or plugins. See supra, § III.B.1.a. The only thing that the block impacted was the ability to do so through a WP Engine administrative panel. See Abrahamson Decl. ¶ 14; Mullenweg Decl. ¶ 41.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:smm2p4rrvgxgc5ljgozezels/bafkreianywfcsrfsno6unrdbatkgg4flsn6oqnfzutlenhwvlgsnxbznam)
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