vincevincevince - 10:03 am on Jun 23, 2005 (gmt 0)

If you hire me to help cash flow for your restaurant, I will start advertising your restaurant in the local area. When I stop working for you, I will stop distributing new flyers for your business (analogy: stop gaining new links, stop beautifying content), remove your poster from my own window (analogy: remove links to him from your own sites).

I would never contact the butcher across the road and tell him to take down your poster (analogy: request others remove links to his site). That would almost certainly be illegal.

If the client hadn't paid my invoice (notice I'm not saying if the contract cancelled) - I would persue it through the legal system. Although it is worth noting that if I 'cannot touch him' legally due to his geographical location, he most probably 'cannot touch me' legally and I'd may well take an entirely different approach.