"The government" has "no legitimate interest" in forgotten and abandoned checking accounts either, but the law is if you abandon a checking account that has money in it, after a fixed and known number of years, the balance reverts to the local state government.
The law exists in large part to remove the temptation of the banks to "lose" the account holder information and then take the money for themselves.
This seems the same sort of thing to me.
If the mechanical licensing process cannot identify and pay the copyright owner after 7 years, the money (and all interest that it has earned) reverts to, say, a split between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts.
If the NMPA fights that, that is direct proof on it's face of their malicious duplicity and intent to steal.
Strapping them down to gurneys and punching them in the face until they pass out, and then tasering them until their hearts stop, sounds fair and just to me.
If one begs for mercy, they can have a short drop with piano wire.
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"The government" has "no legitimate interest" in forgotten and abandoned checking accounts either, but the law is if you abandon a checking account that has money in it, after a fixed and known number of years, the balance reverts to the local state government.
The law exists in large part to remove the temptation of the banks to "lose" the account holder information and then take the money for themselves.
This seems the same sort of thing to me.
If the mechanical licensing process cannot identify and pay the copyright owner after 7 years, the money (and all interest that it has earned) reverts to, say, a split between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts.
If the NMPA fights that, that is direct proof on it's face of their malicious duplicity and intent to steal.
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I'm sick to rage of political deplatforming, and I absolutely zero charity to extend to anyone who supports it.
I want this to pass. With teeth.
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Neat trick, making both sides commit to what is not a trade secret
Once both sides have done this, neither one and nobody else gets to claim anything in these presentations as one of the "trade secrets".
Mormons
They are Mormons.
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Strapping them down to gurneys and punching them in the face until they pass out, and then tasering them until their hearts stop, sounds fair and just to me.
If one begs for mercy, they can have a short drop with piano wire.
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