they need illegal seizures and illegal red light cameras to fund the lawsuits from illegally not turning on their cameras from recording potentially illegal activities.
in short, this could all be avoided IF THEY DID THEIR FUCKING JOBS! But I guess that is too much to ask, is it not?
i have to point to EVE online, very meta, heavy api usage, from outside game emails, to killmails, to basically looking at everything outside of the game (without actually being in game or effecting the game).
Pokemon/nintendo/niantic could do this very easily. they chose not too, they chose poorly
so umm dear cuomo... tell me exactly how many toddlers are playing pokemon go... or online games in general BEFORE you start with these kind of bullshit laws.
Mr. VALENTI. And 6 out of 10 films do not retrieve their total investment period. Now, what are you going to do right on top of that? There is going to be a VCR avalanche. Exports of VCR's from Japan totaled 2.57 million units in 1981. No. 2, the United States is the biggest market. No. 3, February 1982, which is the latest data, shows the imports to the United States are up 57 percent over 1981. This is more than a tidal wave. It is more than an avalanche. It is here.
Now, that is where the problem is. You take the high risk, which means we must go by the aftermarkets to recoup our investments. If those aftermarkets are decimated, shrunken, collapsed because of what I am going to be explaining to you in a minute, because of the fact that the VCR is stripping those things clean, those markets clean of our profit potential, you are going to have devastation in this marketplace.
Now, is this all? Is it going to get any bigger? Well, I assure you it is. Here is the weekly Variety, Wednesday, March 10. Head1ine, "Sony Sees $400 Billion Global Electronics Business by the Decade's End," $400 billion by the decade's end. In 1981, Mr. Chairman, this United States had a $5.3 billion trade deficit with Japan on electronic equipment alone. We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage, unless this Congress at least protects one industry that is able to retrieve a surplus balance of trade and whose total future depends on its protection from the savagery and the ravages of this machine.
Now, the question comes, well, all right, what is wrong with the VCR. One of the Japanese lobbyists, Mr. Ferris, has said that the VCR -- well, if I am saying something wrong, forgive me. I don't know. He certainly is not MGM's lobbyist. That is for sure. He has said that the VCR is the greatest friend that the American film producer ever had.
I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.
To put it simply, the MPAA survived the zombie vcr apocalypse, the cable industry can survive this.....
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it makes more sense
in short, this could all be avoided IF THEY DID THEIR FUCKING JOBS! But I guess that is too much to ask, is it not?
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Pokemon/nintendo/niantic could do this very easily. they chose not too, they chose poorly
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Mr Jack Valenti before US Congress, 1982
To put it simply, the MPAA survived the zombie vcr apocalypse, the cable industry can survive this.....
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