Jeri, you say.....
My next wildest dream has Max saying something along the lines of "We wish to cooperate, and would have from the beginning, if you had indicated that cooperation rather than opposition was what you expected and desired. What do you really want?"

Max already tried that approach with them, right from the start.
What they want us to do is to remove all the offending material, without them telling us what that material is. OR THEY'LL SUE US.

Bert.