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I'm new to this debacle - why did ethan go after this guy so hard?
It's actually the other way around, Ryan Kavanaugh went after Ethan with like 3 lawsuits. It started with Ethan using the Triller app, who had an exclusive streaming arrangement for a Logan Paul boxing match as a PPV event. Triller was a doomed shithole app to begin with, but they went hard with lawsuits against any and everyone who used Logan Paul boxing footage for commentary, even though it should've been Fair Use. They basically threatened everybody on YT and Twitch who had used footage to either subscribe to the app by a certain deadline for retroactive forgiveness, and later something like a $50,000 settlement fee to avoid a lawsuit from the vexatious owner Kavanaugh.
Ethan obviously had the money and legal experience to say "fuck you" and took it to court, and won the first case. However, while it was going on, Kavanaugh opened two more lawsuits against Ethan regarding his criticism of the app, and then of Kavanaugh as a shitty person(he is). Kavanaugh really baited Ethan in telling him to stop talking shit on "his toy podcast" about Kavanaugh being unable to drive legally due to DUIs, not paying a mid-wife/newborn live in nurse a year's wages, bankrupting multiple companies, and citing many of his criticisms from LA industry magazines.
Kavanaugh was ordered to pay $60K in court cost fees regarding the first lawsuit's dismissal, but now Ethan's possibly on the losing end of slander and libel, so we'll see where this goes. Kavanaugh is the kind of rich asshole who gets rich by driving other people's shit into the ground but skimming off the top & abandoning ship before it goes down.