I'm not sure extortion is quite the right word. Laws in the US are proposed by, and sometimes written by the interested industry group. These industry groups are the same interests that fund the lawmakers election campaigns. The real problem here is not really copyright, but raises the question of who the US government system is really run for.
A quick look at the history of brewing in New Zealand will show you that Lion Breweries and their rival Dominion Breweries have owned pretty much 100% of the beer market for almost the entire history of the country. This gave us expensive, poor quality beer until the craft breweries started to give us a bit of flavour. Unfortunately the big two have used their market dominance to either buy up craft brewers or produce their own brands cheaper. Lets not pretend Lion (owned by the massive Japanese company Kirin) is anything other than one half of a duopoly.
Awesome. Thanks for that A/C. That's a view that's worked really well for American interests in Iran hasn't it? You should read some history, particularly the bit where the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 and forced the people of Iran to live under the vicious Pahlavi regime for the next 26 years. Or are you advocating the murder of 81 million people because you don't like them?
This total weirdo will be caught with porn on his laptop, dirty dirty porn. He's just like the anti-gay crusaders. They always wind up in some motel room with a rent-boy.
I live in a five eyes country, and am posting this over national internet infrastructure almost entirely supplied by Huawei. If there was any real risk there's no way the US would have let us purchase the gear we wound up buying.
While I really hesitate to defend your Mr. Trump, to be fair to him, the United States has been starting wars for almost its entire history, often with fairly dubious reason.
“You don’t take or steal something that’s not valuable.” Then let's establish the trademarks value shall we? Rose City Comic Con received the license at no additional cost to the show, OK then, nothing's what it's worth.
I came here to make some pithy comment about how you Americans have the best Government money can buy (or something clever like that), and instead I am forced to marvel how MyNameHere can spew out Verizon press releases like they're his own work, then double down when challenged.
The people involved are "Known Suspected Terrorists" which makes me wonder if they are "known" or "suspected" because those two things are not the same. After reading the linked techdirt piece about the FBI fitting some poor, dope smoking sap up to get their own War on Terror stats looking good, I'm not convinced that any of these KST people are anything other than the usual suspects.
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Re: $30 000 is NOT a small claim
Laws in the US are proposed by, and sometimes written by the interested industry group.
These industry groups are the same interests that fund the lawmakers election campaigns.
The real problem here is not really copyright, but raises the question of who the US government system is really run for.
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Craft Breweries
This gave us expensive, poor quality beer until the craft breweries started to give us a bit of flavour.
Unfortunately the big two have used their market dominance to either buy up craft brewers or produce their own brands cheaper.
Lets not pretend Lion (owned by the massive Japanese company Kirin) is anything other than one half of a duopoly.
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Re: Iran is going to cease to exist
That's a view that's worked really well for American interests in Iran hasn't it?
You should read some history, particularly the bit where the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 and forced the people of Iran to live under the vicious Pahlavi regime for the next 26 years.
Or are you advocating the murder of 81 million people because you don't like them?
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from the Synergies,-yo dept
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Total Porn Fan
He's just like the anti-gay crusaders. They always wind up in some motel room with a rent-boy.
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Five Eyes
If there was any real risk there's no way the US would have let us purchase the gear we wound up buying.
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Re: Re: Out of sight out of mind
Something needs to be done.
Look! We're doing something.
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Re: Resort fees...
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Value?
Then let's establish the trademarks value shall we?
Rose City Comic Con received the license at no additional cost to the show,
OK then, nothing's what it's worth.
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Weirdos
I came here to make some pithy comment about how you Americans have the best Government money can buy (or something clever like that), and instead I am forced to marvel how MyNameHere can spew out Verizon press releases like they're his own work, then double down when challenged.
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Unsure
After reading the linked techdirt piece about the FBI fitting some poor, dope smoking sap up to get their own War on Terror stats looking good, I'm not convinced that any of these KST people are anything other than the usual suspects.
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