"I never would've thought those shop owners would've been so brave as to go against the will of the mob. I'm hopeful that this will be a real shift of power."
In unrelated news, a deli burned to the ground on Thursday.
devil's advocate here:
The comment does not necessarily mean to imply justification for "all's fair in love and capitalism". It's possible (though the sentiment isn't seen here as often) that it's to imply cynically that capitalism itself is inherently corrupt and without greater merit.
I could be wrong, but i've been around enough neo-marxists to be able to identify that snark.
There needs to be a godwins law for mention of child porn, but i'll play your game.
If a rapist of children and puppies were to say he felt murder was unethical, it would not be wrong to agree.
If you think that morons might easily be misled into thinking the association invalidated the claim, you're right to suspect. If you took it upon yourself to think the association makes the assertion universally incorrect, you're one of the morons.
The point has nothing to do with the validity of arguments, but their marketability. There are a lot of voters out there who have little or no understanding of the internet, copyright, copyfraud or the issues surrounding SOPA and the like. These people can easily be sold on the idea that yes, a false dichotomy exists. There are people that are sold on a false political dichotomy, and these are the same self-corrupting television media outlets that were slanting their reporting in this exact manner on Wednesday.
I appreciate the new-model economics aspect of this whole topic, but for those who take these numbers as evidence against the false claims of industry: congratulations, you've discovered something both simple and obvious. They certainly aren't paupers if they buy congress and pollute our judicial system for decades. In fact, one might begin to think that they aren't likely engaged in any respectable form of business if they can even afford to continually spend so much on these often risky ventures.
UMG had to win on its interpretation of the DMCA!!!
UMG does not automatically have the right to a given verdict based on their interpretation of a bunch of purposely vague legislation. Check your debilitating sense of entitlement at the door, asshole.
Right, precedents only work in favor of the industry that has a (actual) profit margin which allows them to have a sufficiently large expendable income with which they can pursue any trivial goal indefinitely. I don't know how many other real industries could get away with what the entertainment industry spends on legal abuse. They either have actual costs that dilute their returns or they're subject to more financial oversight.
close, but i'd like to adjust the analogy:
the threat of SOPA and similar legislation equates to the destruction of the transport infrastructure (i.e. roads)
the public execution of megaupload is equivalent to burning down the crackhouse and shooting the junkies in the street as they flee and then threatening everyone in the town that you have the power and aren't afraid of burning down any house in the city for any reason at all.
I read the headline "Knowledge is a Universal Natural Resource" and immediately got pissed off thinking "holy hell, what is UMG claiming rights to now?"
this * 10^6
56 years might be at least in the right direction, but that's like telling an attacker that you would appreciate it if he'd just strangle you half as much as he is now.
Wow, so this is the topsy-turvy world in which we live now -- where the voice of the people is 'blackmail' and 'abuse of power' and corporate influence and government corruption is 'democracy'. I guess I'd better start revising my vocabulary.
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In unrelated news, a deli burned to the ground on Thursday.
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The comment does not necessarily mean to imply justification for "all's fair in love and capitalism". It's possible (though the sentiment isn't seen here as often) that it's to imply cynically that capitalism itself is inherently corrupt and without greater merit.
I could be wrong, but i've been around enough neo-marxists to be able to identify that snark.
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Just ask your mother.
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If a rapist of children and puppies were to say he felt murder was unethical, it would not be wrong to agree.
If you think that morons might easily be misled into thinking the association invalidated the claim, you're right to suspect. If you took it upon yourself to think the association makes the assertion universally incorrect, you're one of the morons.
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right
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UMG does not automatically have the right to a given verdict based on their interpretation of a bunch of purposely vague legislation. Check your debilitating sense of entitlement at the door, asshole.
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the threat of SOPA and similar legislation equates to the destruction of the transport infrastructure (i.e. roads)
the public execution of megaupload is equivalent to burning down the crackhouse and shooting the junkies in the street as they flee and then threatening everyone in the town that you have the power and aren't afraid of burning down any house in the city for any reason at all.
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sed 's/n\'t//g'
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i can't imagine they wouldn't bring this to anything but a stacked court.
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56 years might be at least in the right direction, but that's like telling an attacker that you would appreciate it if he'd just strangle you half as much as he is now.
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display of criminal pride
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well, shit
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