[The following statement was posted by RTMark after a Wired news article
reported that eToys would "not press" its lawsuit against etoy.-ag]

RTMark is happy that the behemoth, eToys, has seen fit to temporarily
pull its lawyers off the blood-scent of etoy.com, and to allow the art
site to continue for a while with its existence. We are happy that after
trying for weeks to convince the public that etoy.com was trying to
confuse the public and blemish the wholesome eToys image, eToys is now
forced to lie that its "intent was never to silence free artistic
expression." We are happy that the torrent of public outrage and disgust
has forced eToys into this ridiculous position.

RTMark is sad, however, that etoy.com is stuck with the enormous fees it
has had to pay its lawyers as its financial price–the other prices are
incalculable–for temporarily continued survival. These fees are
enormous to etoy, but would be trivial to eToys. We are sad that under
American law, eToys has no obligation to help etoy.com recover from its
unethical, absurd, and completely disgusting attack.

RTMark is sad to be stuck, like everyone else, with its rage and only,
in redress, an assertion by eToys that it is "moving away" from the
suit. (They will not say they've dropped it.) We are so sad about this
that we hope that eToys' stock value does indeed plummet all the way to
zero point zero zero, and we do hope that people continue to attack this
wretched entity with every means at their disposal.

RTMark is surely most sad that while this case has scared eToys into
momentarily relenting, there are countless other similar cases–some of
them equally outrageous and equally cruel–that will not be resolved
except in court, if the defendants can muster the financial and
psychological strength to keep their cases alive. The law has not
changed, and until it does, this case will at best make other
corporations take trickier routes to their financial goals in the
future.

We can only hope that someday, people will wake up and rescind some laws
protecting the power of these entities whose only desire, whose very
nature, is to profit at any cost whatsoever.