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Suing Your Customers: Winning Business Strategy?

Posted by michael on from the history-lesson dept.

Cobarde Anonimo writes "The Knowledge at Wharton has an interesting text about the RIAA strategy of suing its customers. As Wharton legal studies professor G. Richard Shell writes below, this same tactic was tried 100 years ago against Henry Ford. It didn't work then, and it won't work today."

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  1. Why can no one properly spell "sue"? by Muddie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    People!
    Sue (present/future tense; verb)
    Sued (past tense; verb)
    Suing (present tense; verb)
    Suer (noun)

    "Sueing" is not a word.

  2. Re:Suing your customers *does* save industries! by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course I would. Which would you rather have, a lawyer who sued who you told her to sue, or a lawyer who used her own judgement on who was worth sueing. You want a lawyer who follows orders. In fact, I'd rather have a lawyer who won a case against a 12-year-old than one who lost it because that's probably a damn good lawyer.
    The English neutral is 'his'.

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    I have over 70 freaks, do you?