The assumption that Prosper had or will fire off a lawyer letter led to my emailing about prosperreport.com.
Anything's possible, but I doubt it. Sending a lawyer's nasty-gram to some individual blogger (i.e., 112233) is not even remotely the same thing as trying to intimidate Slate. If 112233 wouldn't have been able to obtain pro bono representation from Public Citizen, he might have been forced to cave. Slate undoubtedly has a slew of high-priced media lawyers on retainer, and is not likely to buckle to Prosper's lame-ass threats. I think Slate would tell Prosper to pound sand if Prosper tried anything, and Prosper knows it.