"If your site is legal, you don't have anything to worry about..."
BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH! Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.
Not to mention that it's already been shown that a number of the media companies have already done DMCA takedowns on items that they don't own and on items they do own but gave to the sites for promotional purposes. I don't know where you got those rose-tinted glasses but the real world doesn't look like that.
"...in fact, if someone tried to shut you down that way, you could sue their asses into the dirt for doing it."
All you need is more money and better lawyers than, say, Warner Bros. Or Disney. Or both, since one could do a takedown the same day as the other. And -- silly me -- I figured most companies would rather spend their money on generating income than fighting in court.
"The foolish assumption is that a single complaint will get your site shut down. It's bullshit, you know it."
Apparently you either haven't read a single article in the last few months, or you just assume anything you don't want to hear is bullshit, or your reading comprehension approaches zero as a limit. This is exactly why we're fighting SOPA -- because it requires cutting off of support on a single accusation.
"An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or belief of the person supporting it."
Ad hominem is when you use a personal attack to try to counter an argument. But there's no discussion happening here.
This is merely name-calling. There's a difference.
It's just easier to issue an improper DMCA takedown notice, which is illegal, than it is to go after the musicians for breach of contract, which is not (going after them, I mean). Breaking the law has NO negative consequences for UMG. DMCA fail.
Do the MPAA et. al. understand that if they put a boatload of us out of work, there won't be anybody left to buy their products?
Oh wait... this is going to boost the economy. Because Hollywood is our entire economy.
It's going to boost music sales because the people who didn't want to buy the music in the first place, or who couldn't afford to, will suddenly have less discerning tastes and bigger budgets. (Especially the ones whose businesses were shut down on a whim.)
Obviously he's willing to shut down the Internet and everything that depends on it in order to keep his paycheck.
What he forgets is that in the massive depression that follows, nobody will have enough money to pay for the products his company produces. Guess what happens then?
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Lies. Lies and calumny. You can't compete with free! And Minesweeper came free on my computer.
Why would I buy another game when I can play Minesweeper for free?
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BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH! Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.
Not to mention that it's already been shown that a number of the media companies have already done DMCA takedowns on items that they don't own and on items they do own but gave to the sites for promotional purposes. I don't know where you got those rose-tinted glasses but the real world doesn't look like that.
"...in fact, if someone tried to shut you down that way, you could sue their asses into the dirt for doing it."
All you need is more money and better lawyers than, say, Warner Bros. Or Disney. Or both, since one could do a takedown the same day as the other. And -- silly me -- I figured most companies would rather spend their money on generating income than fighting in court.
"The foolish assumption is that a single complaint will get your site shut down. It's bullshit, you know it."
Apparently you either haven't read a single article in the last few months, or you just assume anything you don't want to hear is bullshit, or your reading comprehension approaches zero as a limit. This is exactly why we're fighting SOPA -- because it requires cutting off of support on a single accusation.
Either that or you're a shill.
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Ad hominem is when you use a personal attack to try to counter an argument. But there's no discussion happening here.
This is merely name-calling. There's a difference.
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Oh right, due process is a mere "legalistic view" and has no place in real life.
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And here I thought it was about escapism
I mean, really. WTF?
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Oh wait... this is going to boost the economy. Because Hollywood is our entire economy.
It's going to boost music sales because the people who didn't want to buy the music in the first place, or who couldn't afford to, will suddenly have less discerning tastes and bigger budgets. (Especially the ones whose businesses were shut down on a whim.)
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What he forgets is that in the massive depression that follows, nobody will have enough money to pay for the products his company produces. Guess what happens then?
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