Re: Logically then, if people were paid to consume, no one would.
This asserts complete nonsense. The main flaw is the weasely "much more likely to pay"; even Mike can't bring himself to say that people would pay rather than get the same thing for free.
That's exactly what happens. People ARE willing to pay for something they can get for free. What's more, people are willing to pay a second time for something they're already paying for. Don't believe me? Take a look at the bottled water industry. People pay taxes to supply perfectly drinkable water to their houses. They then pay again to buy more tap water in plastic bottles.
The "Mike has never once come out against pirates" bullshit is officially over. Granted, it was over long before this, but I'm stamping this one as being a completely invalid argument, for ever and ever, A-fucking-men.
Not that that's going to even slow down the troll's use of it.
So the court is saying that either trespassing on private property is not illegal, or else that evidence obtained via illegal means is now acceptable in court.
Either way, this is bad news.
I'm not certain Sony even wants to win this lawsuit. After all, if sony wins, they'd have to admit that it's perfectly legal for someone to quote eight or nine words from a Sony movie too.
If you work at it a bit, you could convince the Americans to set up the wall themselves. That way, they pay for protecting the rest of the world from the USA.
Electing Romney instead of Obama won`t change much. The money behind the two political parties has selected a pair of candidates. You get to select which candidate runs the country for the next four years. No matter which one you pick, you`re still picking one of the candidates selected by the people with the money to buy a political party.
The complete lock on the means of production that the copywrong industry has had has allowed them to ignore economic laws for so long that they no longer feel economics applies to them.
The United States doesn't have a justice system. It has a legal system. Meeting the letter of the law is seen as much more important than meeting the spirit of the law.
Why? Any sort of 'protection' system is also a 'eliminate competition' system. Why should anyone deserve protection from competition, and how does that protection provide a net benefit to society?
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Re: Logically then, if people were paid to consume, no one would.
That's exactly what happens. People ARE willing to pay for something they can get for free. What's more, people are willing to pay a second time for something they're already paying for. Don't believe me? Take a look at the bottled water industry. People pay taxes to supply perfectly drinkable water to their houses. They then pay again to buy more tap water in plastic bottles.
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Re: One comment per hour (per person), as I suggested long ago...
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Not that that's going to even slow down the troll's use of it.
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Either way, this is bad news.
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Hollywood Accounting?
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Why? Any sort of 'protection' system is also a 'eliminate competition' system. Why should anyone deserve protection from competition, and how does that protection provide a net benefit to society?
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