Everyone's acting like Rocketboom's producer and ex-host have gone their separate ways, as if the fight is over. But it's just about to begin.

What identifies the big players in tech? Revenue may indicate it, mindshare too. But truly deep pockets get targeted by high-profile lawsuits. Take, for example, the lawsuits filed against the Big Three this month, here listed from most worthy to most frivolous.

Or because the little Internet junkie only just realized people can fake their ages on a web form, based on the Associated Press report:

Sometimes you can see a story coming a financial quarter away. Last week, a tipster dropped some gossip about VC firm Doll Capital Management, headed by veteran investor Dixon Doll.

SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill tells me that his photo sharing site got a TiVo nastygram:

Hoo, that's a relief! I asked Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Jason Schultz to comment on Facebook's cease-and-desist against Gawker Media. (The EFF defends digital freedoms.) (And Jason's just speaking as an expert, not as our lawyer.) He says precedent's on Gawker's side:

Somewhere between the stalker-abetting "Where are you now" option and pushing every corporate flunky to tell the whole company their romantic status, religion, and sexual orientation (it's true!), America's hottest social network decided it loves privacy.