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Re: Re: Re: I don't know... (as taoareyou)
The word "responsible" is not the same as "represent". The actions of employees are considered representative of a company, but do not automatically bestow responsibility for the actions onto an other individuals.
The actions of the ACORN employees reflected badly on ACORN as a whole and caused funding to be withheld and additional investigations to be launched. So, yes the actions of the employees had a representative effect on the company.
Where will be be? (as taoareyou)
Once every common word and phrase is copyrighted, nobody will be able to write anything without being required to pay so many fees that it becomes no longer viable to communicate in any public manner.
Beyond the Effects on Sharing (as taoareyou)
Every person you kick on the Internet is a lost revenue stream for the ISP. Will the government compensate the ISPs for each person it bans?
Every person on the Internet is a person NOT shopping online. Will the government compensate ALL of the online stores for their "lost" revenue?
Re: Re: yes, Go Matthew! (as taoareyou)
Hey Suzanne, would you share your income and expense figures with us here?
Re: Socialist Liberal Smear Campaign (as taoareyou)
Instead of theatrical prophecy, how about refuting the statements made in the Torrentfreak posting?
Re: In Defense of Trolls (as taoareyou)
"Vilifying patent investment companies is like vilifying investors in the physical assets of failed enterprises. These investors recycle assets and make them part of the productive economy again."
Perhaps I am just a casual observer, but I don't see how holding onto a patent, doing absolutely nothing with it, and waiting on someone else to do anything remotely similar to the general patent you have then filing suit against them for it, is recycling assets back into the economy.
If THEY were doing something with the patents they would be recycling them. What these people do is nothing more than buying a lotto ticket and waiting for their number to come up.
Here is the Reason (as taoareyou)
Because some artists/writers/filmmakers are aware of how to use Twitter and the studios see themselves becoming obsolete instead of being in complete control. Where would Paranormal Activity be without the use of Twitter?
Radio? (as taoareyou)
The only use I have for my car radio is to listen to live talk radio, generally on AM stations where I can listen to local issues. The only music I listen to is either streamed in via an Internet site (I'm one of those Pandora subscribers, but I don't write letters on their behalf), or on my iPhone already.
If local music radio disappeared completely it would not affect me at all.
I'm Just Curious (as taoareyou)
Do the celebrities in gossip mags all sign releases to the paparazzi who incessantly snap their photos so they can be paid thousands of dollars for those embarrassing photos they snap?
Unless I have explicitly agreed to take no photos, and cameras are explicitly forbidden for everyone (inside the Biltmore House for example) then I own my pictures and will do whatever I want with them.
Auto Takedown (as taoareyou)
If there is ever an automatic takedown feature, you can be pretty sure that it won't take long for every vid on YouTube to go down and there will not be enough YouTube employees to review them all.
This is not a new concept (as taoareyou)
Make your work fun and people will pay to do it. Didn't Tom Sawyer get his friends to "pay" him in order to paint a fence that was his chore?
No offense to women (as taoareyou)
I see her "abuse" gambit as nothing more than a smokescreen because she was counting on the "rescue the poor young damsel" effect. It's really sad when people would rather resort to such desperate measures instead of standing by their statements or even acknowledging that they really didn't have a grasp of the big picture.
Honestly, I had never heard of her before, and I am certainly inclined not to make any effort to learn more about her. She certainly didn't leave the impression that she's anything more than an impulsive, short-sighted, take-my-ball-and-go-home-when-you-don't-play-my-way sorta young lady.
Slave? (as taoareyou)
I was always under the impression that "slave labor" was either forced, as in the workers have no choice. So is the volunteer fire department "slave labor" too?
Criminal Offense? (as taoareyou)
Since there is no court involved, what do they do if you don't pay? Take you to court? They cannot garnish your wages without a court order. Just don't pay, never admit guilt, and dispute the charge then. It makes sense to claim you did not file an appeal since you have to admit guilt to do so and you did not pay because you dispute the charge.
Just an Idea (as taoareyou)
Perhaps the chief is hoping that one of the anonymous posters is from the Bahamas or some nice European resort city so he can justify going there to apprehend them. :)
Oh and "Impersonating a police officer is sometimes committed in order to assert police-like authority in order to commit a crime. Posing as a police officer enables the offender to legitimize the appearance of an illegal act, such as; breaking and entry, making a traffic stop, or detaining." so says the mighty Wiki.
I don't think any posters are trying to commit an illegal act as a result of a comment claiming to be an officer. Going after commenters is trivial and will only be perceived as petty and wasteful of time and taxpayer dollars.
If there are no murderers, rapists, drug dealers, kidnappers, etc. on the street, sure, go keep yourself busy. If not, time to replace the chief.
A Sample Conference Call (as taoareyou)
Regional Manager: So that's why had to shut down 12 stores and lay off half of you here. Any questions?
Silence.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Snowball effect (as taoareyou)
So the music industry removes someone who pirates music. That person however, purchased e-books from Amazon. Now the music industry has removed a customer from Amazon.
Amazon takes advantage of the legislation and removed people who illegally download e-books. Those people bought and rented movies online from places like Netflix and no those paying customers are gone.
The MPAA goes after people downloading movies and uses the law to take more off the Internet. Those people bought music online. There goes some customers who were actually paying for music.
ALL of these people were paying for Internet from various providers, and so the ISPs lose customers. Look at just how many business' would lose REAL, measurable revenue. Not to mention that it's much more unlikely for anyone forced off the Internet by the music industry to suddenly decide to start buying music CDs.
So where is the gain? It's just all loss.
Re: Pricacy - or lack thereof - biggest issue. (as taoareyou)
If you buy a book online with Amazon or walk into Barnes and Nobles and buy a book with a credit card, or go check out a book in the library, there is a record of what books you have at least taken interest in that can be accessed by the government with the same authority as it would have with Google.
On the plus side, nobody cares.
haha (as taoareyou)
Sounds like "somebody" is an investor in IV.
(as taoareyou)
They will also have to shut down all open WiFi hot spots and demand cellular carriers give up the revenue from data plans for all these people. Good luck with that.