Because it cost Google unnecessary money, so why should they pay it, 'drop in the ocean' or not? Because it might make a patent troll think twice before picking on someone smaller?
$4 million may not be a lot to Google, but it might still be the cost of supporting some small 'free' service that people use and enjoy.
Is the economy so strong that we can encourage people to 'waste' $4 million?
In a twisted way, he is somewhat responsible. After all, without the original demand, the $20k wouldn't have been raised. And without his being such a colossal douche, the other $190k might not either.
Not only that, but free content has always been available, and always will. All the DMCA does is helps reduce ridiculous trolling by media conglomerates with too much money and negative IQs against anyone they want to bully. And the fact that they abuse it so much with so little comeback just shows how poor it is even at that.
What are the effects if he is both appealing the extradition and voluntarily going to the US - can he then choose to leave any time he wants? What happens if he then goes to a third country?
And this is someone who can afford (theoretically) to take things to appeal after appeal and keep it in the press. Not the usual small, helpless victim that the Cartels go for.
Which suddenly gives massive problems to a) the Disney Vault, and b) any content owner not marketing a particular product - the title trademarks would lapse?
He is entitled to whine. We care more about actual abuses of the system, or when the whiners are (massively) hypocritical. In this case, Inman may have moaned a bit, but then he let it be. For a whole year, before FJ/Carreon poked the hornet's nest.
We pick on the **AAs mainly because they consistently refuse to innovate, try to stifle innovation wherever possible, and tout suing grandmas and laser printers as 'beating piracy'. Somehow, I don't think Inman is anywhere like in the same league. If TechDirt had to post a story every time someone whined about the DMCA but didn't do much else, we'd drown under even more crud than the trollshills spout.
Then he should flag it better, because I see far too many would-be constitutional 'experts' in the tea party, and I seem to know more about the Constitution than half of them, despite being foreign! :)
Assange is at most guilty of breaking some Swedish sexual laws |which of course has yet to be proven). Not for anything to do with America by a long shot.
Assange is at most guilty of breaking some Swedish sexual laws |which of course has yet to be proven). Not for anything to do with America by a long shot.
Precisely, because if this is what the do in a 'mere' copyright case, what will they do for an Australian citizen accused of 'high treason' against America?
Is it me, or does the US seem to have it in for the A-NZers?
But of course! After all, Saddam Hussein was guilty of having all the WMD that they couldn't find, and also guilty of supporting 9/11 with his non-existent connection to Bin Laden. US 'Justice', dontcha' know?
(And yes, I know he was a scumbag guilty of some nasty stuff, but that was the Iraqi/Kurdis responsibility, not those who had built him up in the first place.)
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$4 million may not be a lot to Google, but it might still be the cost of supporting some small 'free' service that people use and enjoy.
Is the economy so strong that we can encourage people to 'waste' $4 million?
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Still a bit twisted claiming 'credit'.
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Not only that, but free content has always been available, and always will. All the DMCA does is helps reduce ridiculous trolling by media conglomerates with too much money and negative IQs against anyone they want to bully. And the fact that they abuse it so much with so little comeback just shows how poor it is even at that.
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We pick on the **AAs mainly because they consistently refuse to innovate, try to stifle innovation wherever possible, and tout suing grandmas and laser printers as 'beating piracy'. Somehow, I don't think Inman is anywhere like in the same league. If TechDirt had to post a story every time someone whined about the DMCA but didn't do much else, we'd drown under even more crud than the trollshills spout.
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Is it me, or does the US seem to have it in for the A-NZers?
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(And yes, I know he was a scumbag guilty of some nasty stuff, but that was the Iraqi/Kurdis responsibility, not those who had built him up in the first place.)
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