I will say that I had Netflix, and then they decided to up the price on their combined package. I wanted both the streaming AND the blue ray, and they punked me, so I dropped them.
That was my experience exactly. I'm not sure how they knew that Arrested Development is the one thing (apart from the never-gonna-happen revival of Firefly) that could lure me back into their clutches. Dammit.
Why hasn't Obama already called for their resignations?? How long after Breitbart's blog post did it take for the administration to request the resignation of Shirley Sharrod?
Avoiding profits to avoid taxes works about as well for a corporation, as staying unemployed to avoid taxes works for an individual. Sure, you avoid the taxes, but you also do not make money.
How so? Profit is what is left after expenses are covered. So long as expenses are covered, the business can operate.
Disney! Those are your friends and neighbors out of work.
They're no friends of mine. As far as I'm concerned they can take their awful paint-by-numbers tripe and cast it into the fires of Mount Doom where it belongs.
1. These laws almost always have massive and dangerous unintended consequences that hinder innovation, speech or both.
2. More importantly, these laws don't actually work at stopping piracy.
In my view, unintended consequences that hinder innovation and speech should cause us much more concern than failure to stop piracy.
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"dispute"
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I disagree
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