Bass knows how to do it as well. He's an expert. He's pulling your chain and you're going for it.
It's not "extortion", Graham. It's a nuisance suit. Brinks has all the bucks and the power. Some petty VP in sales trying to cover his sorry ass because of poor account retention found Jim's website and cried "foul" when he saw he was making the DTI and Scantronic programmers available for rent. There is no way for Brinks to be able to substantiate a loss of revenue to Jim's website (or tortuous interference with the PSA). In order to do that, Jim would have to provide information about whose equipment the programmer was used on. Since Jim only rents the programmers to security dealers that's going to be extremely difficult to do. Now, if one of those dealers happened to be a former Brinks employee, then they'd have a case against the employee and not Jim.
It's the same "reasoning" he uses to say that I'm a "counter clerk". He's a moron.