• Added party. Unlike Peters' previous settlement offer, deeply flawed according to AxaMonitor's legal consultant and Burnett's lawyer, who called it "unconscionably one-sided," this new proposal adds Bawden as a party to deal with Bawden's Iowa lawsuit seeking repayment of a loan to Peters.
• Unusual tactic. Burnett's attorney, Torin Dorros, tells Peters in an email obtained by AxaMonitor that it's unusual to settle a lawsuit by involving a third party not named in the legal complaint. "Candidly, it is a bit unusual to try to resolve a legal action between Party A and Party B by including an unrelated Party C in the settlement agreement," Dorros tell Peters in an email. "I understand your goal and maybe there is a way to get there but please understand the concept to a certain extent does make things more complex."

• Willing to waste money. Peters tells attorney Torin Dorros his unflinching defense against CBS/Paramount's 2015 copyright lawsuit proves he has "zero problem wasting $50-100,000 teaching Rob a lesson about screwing the people who took care of him."
• 'I'm a lawyer.' Peters starts his email touting his knowledge of the law. "In case you don’t know, I am an attorney by training. I went to law school (UNC ’87), passed the bar in NC and was sworn in in that state." Despite often touting his credential, Peters has never practiced law in the three decades since.
• Pissed off lawyers. Peters addresses Dorros' complaint about his lawyer's lack of communication ("Correspondence Shows Peters’ Lawyers are Avoiding Settlement Discussions in Burnett Case") admonishing Dorros:

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“Don’t waste my time with grandiose statements and attacks on our case. You pissed off both my GA and LA lawyers with your previous emails, that is why we chose not to respond and tried to settle this through Mike Bawden. I know my case is solid.”

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• 'Didn't flinch' from CBS/Paramount suit. In an effort to prove his determination, Peters informed Dorros, "If you didn’t know, CBS and Paramount sued me for 13 months and I didn’t flinch. They wound up settling." Of course one could argue that by settling after a federal judge threw out Peters' main defense, it was he who flinched.
• Burnett's finances. Peters repeats unfounded allegations about Burnett's finances as leverage to force a settlement. "I know Rob can’t afford this lawsuit. I was told he borrowed $20,000 from his Mom to pay you and his [Georgia] attorney. I have no interest in ruining Rob’s already non-existent financial reserves and certainly don’t want him stiffing his Mom like he has so many others. Rob has a reputation as a user and deadbeat and that will all come out in court."
• Reiterating settlement. Peters continues to praise how beneficial his settlement offer is for Burnett, and implores Torros to convince his client to relent: "I am trying to be reasonable, as I have for a year now, and trying to get my digital assets back. If you can’t get him to agree to such an amazing offer, we will see you in court."

• Default judgment: "So Rob, after not filing a response in the time allotted, which earned us a default judgement, had his Georgia lawyers filed a challenge to jurisdiction (which can happen within two weeks of failing to respond), claiming we couldn’t sue him in Georgia, and had to do so in California.  Rather than fight this, not wanting to waste money that can be spent in California, we dismissed the case and are moving to California!" Our call:

• Axanar Facebook page. In an uncharacteristic event, posts critical of Axanar sprouted up and weren't deleted (so far) under Lane's post promoting Interlude's crowdfunding effort. Most of the comments were critical, generally running along the lines of "How stupid do you think we are? Got conned the first time round, not planning on repeating the experience" — even though Lane protested his project's independence from Peters.
• Fan Film Factor debates shut down. Virtually every post about Lane's film this week had to be shut down by the admins (Lane owns the group) of the Fan Film Factor group on Facebook because each discussion thread went off the rails over Axanar or Alec Peters. The group's admins enforced their "no ax-grinding" rule disallowing posts critical of Axanar or Peters, issuing multiple warnings and muting some people (including yours truly).
• GoFundMe progress. Meanwhile, Lane effusively reported his GoFundMe campaign's progress in its opening days. By today, six days in, he'd raised $2,784, just over 14 percent of his $19,500 goal. Crowdfunding research, however, finds successful campaigns typically raise 30 percent of their goal in the first day. Lane's progress came nowhere near that.