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Cease-and-desist laptop manuals

An IP editor has reverted two other editors on the issue of whether the article should mention a 2012 cease-and-desist that Toshiba issued against someone who was hosting copies of their laptop service manuals. This seems relatively minor in the history of a 70-year-old company, and actively misleading to present it as the only item in a "Criticism" section, for a company which broken Western trade embargoes in the 1980s, and paid out $571 million over a price-fixing lawsuit. I've merged it with the other negative aspects of the company's history in the "History" section, but "man receives cease-and-desist, journalist disapproves" seems relatively minor in the scheme of things. What do other editors think? --McGeddon (talk) 17:34, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Do you mean that Wired writes minor articles?
Why do you want to hide the issue that Toshiba does not want the service manuals to be publicly accesible?
Do you work for Toshiba? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.33.208.97 (talk) 15:47, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
No, I don't work for Toshiba. Assume good faith. Wired is a reliable source, and I don't want to "hide" the story, I'm just thinking that it might be WP:UNDUE weight to include it, per the above arguments, particularly when the story doesn't seem to go any further than "a website with copyrighted content was C&D'd, and one journalist thought that this was maybe done maliciously for a particular reason". It seems very small beer next to widely-recognised price fixing and embargo-breaking. --McGeddon (talk) 12:49, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
The issue of a Take down on copyrighted material is Toshiba's right to do so; also this is a total non-issue to the vasty majority of people and it looks out of touch; I would personally remove it again but I cannot so that is all I have to say.--Pretty les♀♥, Dark Mistress, talk, 16:14, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
More significantly, it seems to be a non-issue to the mainstream and technical press, if the only coverage it got was one journalist covering the takedown story and speculating that it might have had a particular motive. I moved the basic fact of it to the planned obsolescence article, but I don't see that it was a significant part of Toshiba's history as a corporation. --McGeddon (talk) 16:20, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
After two months of silence with the best argument for keeping it being "nothing Wired says should be considered minor", I've gone ahead and cut it again. --McGeddon (talk) 19:33, 24 February 2014 (UTC)