Please - make it illegal to post/write comments about business or products..
It would put every single 'critic' out of business.
None of this was an issue as long as some corporation could pay some newspaper to have it's 'critics' say certain things - is that right? Why is it an issue now?
It's what food/movie/music critics have done for many years and built an entire career off of.
Come on, guys, get your story straight! Which is it?
It's whichever will make them the most $$$ - they'll change it as necessary. Facts aren't important.
I hate Wal-Mart with a passion - so it's Amazon, Barnes and Noble or another bookseller for me - but most of the books I read - I get from the library.
I'm surprised they aren't bitching more about libraries yet.
I think what is often ignored (not on TechDirt, of course) is that it's probably the *very existence* of the Internet and file sharing that is responsible for their huge successes of late.
Yep, like Radio - which is 'free' music broadcast did more to pump up music sales than *anything* else in history..
Bad move. Never resign on the spot. Get a lawyer. Everything changes when you let a lawyer do your talking! Especially when dealing with self-righteous blowhards.
Ehhh, depends...
I bet they didn't even want him to resign - he may have done it out of spite.
I'm saying that - because I did that. My wife and I were both working a lot - had a good savings built up and the job market was good. I was being 'threatened' to get wrote up for something I didn't do - and even other co-workers agreed it was clear it wasn't my fault.
So I cam in that night, when I had to go to the office I told the boss I guess he was working second shift tonight too and walked out the door.
Just depends on your situation :) Sometimes that can sting more that fighting anything, lol
If they had a clue of how many 'cracked' games in years past I had gotten - and then turned around and bought, they'd realize it's quite the opposite.
Now I just play 'official' trials - or don't get the game. With a few exceptions - well, only one I can think of in recent years I bought without a trial was Fallout 3.
Most games I play now are online with a monthly fee anyway.
it isn't like Google is pointing to 92,900 seperate torrents. Your example certainly gollifies the numbers, but the underside is the same (and so is the source of the files).
So what if it was only pointing to 210 results as well? Wouldn't it then be equally as liable?
Then we go on to the ISP's liability in this - then behind the ISP we have the Telco - behind the Telco we have Government rules and regulations that give these ISP's and Telecom companies the 'license' to operate. Shouldn't they all be equally liable?
What about other search Engines? Bing, Yahoo, etc?
And actually the first hit using Google to search for the string ""transformers 2" filetype:torrent" was on Isohunt.com
Actually - the Pirate Bay doesn't show on the first Google page results at all.
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It's just a series of commands/strings/parameters in a row.
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It would put every single 'critic' out of business.
None of this was an issue as long as some corporation could pay some newspaper to have it's 'critics' say certain things - is that right? Why is it an issue now?
It's what food/movie/music critics have done for many years and built an entire career off of.
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Don't forget to fine the Telco too.
And fine the government for creating laws to allow it!
And the city for licensing the pub!
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It was probably the fault of the news media.
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-Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Re: The worst possible outcome...
Dear God, I never even considered that! What a special kind of terrible that would be....
Google search for Obama results in the first link going to www.barackobama.com
Bing search for Obama results in the first link going to www.societyformuslimsbornoutsidethecountry.aljazeera.com?
So which would people use that realize the two parties are just a big smoke and mirrors game for all the elites?
Partisanship is such a *yawn* - it's clearly just a big media mind-phuck on the people - amazing how some people are so into it still.
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Probably more so 'international bankers' - but.. yeah :)
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It's whichever will make them the most $$$ - they'll change it as necessary. Facts aren't important.
I hate Wal-Mart with a passion - so it's Amazon, Barnes and Noble or another bookseller for me - but most of the books I read - I get from the library.
I'm surprised they aren't bitching more about libraries yet.
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Don't tempt me to ditch cable and sign up for NetFlix. I think about that enough already.
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Yep, like Radio - which is 'free' music broadcast did more to pump up music sales than *anything* else in history..
It just makes sense.
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Re: Resigned?
Ehhh, depends...
I bet they didn't even want him to resign - he may have done it out of spite.
I'm saying that - because I did that. My wife and I were both working a lot - had a good savings built up and the job market was good. I was being 'threatened' to get wrote up for something I didn't do - and even other co-workers agreed it was clear it wasn't my fault.
So I cam in that night, when I had to go to the office I told the boss I guess he was working second shift tonight too and walked out the door.
Just depends on your situation :) Sometimes that can sting more that fighting anything, lol
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In that case...
All browsers also violate copyright law, as would DNS servers that cache any domain name that's 'copyrighted'.
Fox News... and other News Corp computers - no doubt have browsers and I'm sure News Corp has DNS servers.
Therefore: they are also violating copyright law.
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Now I just play 'official' trials - or don't get the game. With a few exceptions - well, only one I can think of in recent years I bought without a trial was Fallout 3.
Most games I play now are online with a monthly fee anyway.
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So what if it was only pointing to 210 results as well? Wouldn't it then be equally as liable?
Then we go on to the ISP's liability in this - then behind the ISP we have the Telco - behind the Telco we have Government rules and regulations that give these ISP's and Telecom companies the 'license' to operate. Shouldn't they all be equally liable?
What about other search Engines? Bing, Yahoo, etc?
And actually the first hit using Google to search for the string ""transformers 2" filetype:torrent" was on Isohunt.com
Actually - the Pirate Bay doesn't show on the first Google page results at all.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=%22transformers+2%22+filetype:torrent&a mp;start=0&sa=N
and also on the search "transformers 2 torrent" Just like that in Google - again, the first page does not include hits from The Pirate Bay.
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